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Psyche 6:372, 1891.

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372 ~ s ~ ~ ~ . [January 1893.
HERACLIDES CRESPHONTES.-On page 294
of the present volume of Psyche a note is made of the capture of H. cresfhontes in Massachusetts, and it is remarked that no other specimen has been known to have been seen since 1883.
One other specimen has certainly been
obtained since then, the late James A.
Wright having found one at or near Milton, Mass., during the summer of 1885. The
specimen being very fine was shown with a few other rare species at the Natural History store then located at 409 Washington St., Boston.
The specimen was found, if I recollect
rightly, at early dusk in a small clearing in the woods not far from the town, the day being very warm and more or less cloudy. Not being familiar with the species Mr.
Wright sent it toNew York for identification, and it is now in the collection of a Boston entomologist. Lewis E. Hood.
ANTS BREEDING IN AND IN. - Fore1 an-
nounces (Ann. soc. ent. Belgique, v. 36 p. 458) that among ants of the genera Anergates and Formicoxenus there is no other male than a wingless ergatoid form, such as sometimes accompanies the normal male in other gen- era, and that therefore pairing must always take place in the ant hill itself between brothers and sisters ; so we have here cases of perpetual consanguineous reproduction. "Among ordinary ants the winged $ and $
quit the nest in which they were born, take flight, and pair in mid air with their con- geners of other nests, permitting numerous crosses. But in the case of the genera which have only an apterous male perpetual con- sanguineous pairingensues, for in one and the same nest there are found only brothers and sisters, and these brothers and sisters can only pair with one another. The fact ap- pears absolutely clear in the genus Anergates, where one finds in each ant hill only a single fecundated female, the mother founder of the colony."
PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES.
CAMBRIDGE ENTOMOLOGICAL CLUB.
11 November, 1892.-The 173d meeting was
held at 156 Brattle Street.
Mr. S. Henshaw
was chosen chairman.
Mr. Harrison G. Dyar of Roxbury was
elected an active member.
Mr. S. H. Scudder exhibited the series of Phasmidae in his collection arranged after the system introduced by ~til, and showed that the species found in our country were more numerous than had been supposed,
including at least four species of Diaphero- mera, one of Sermyie, two of Bacunculus, one or possibly two of Anisomorpha and two of Bacillus. The last was the most interest- ing, as the genus has not hitherto been
recognized in the new world and all the other genera are distinctively American. One of the species, which he proposed to call B. coloradus, was found in Colorado at a height of about S~OO', and had the metathorax very much shorter than the mesothorax, their
median carina much more pronounced than
the laterodorsal carinae, and with scarcely a trace of granulation, except very feebly in the front portion of the mesothorax, besides a unicolorous head. The other species occurs in Arizona and extends south into Mexico; it has the metathorax but little shorter than the mesothorax, both median and latero-
dorsal carinae pronounced, the whole body sparsely and finely granulate and the head longitudinally striped ; he proposed for it the name B. carinat'as. In both the antennae beyond the second joint are multiarticulate, but the joints, which are transverse, so nearly connate as to be difficult to distinguish. Only females are known.
Mr. S. Henshaw showed a specimen of
Anthrenus scrofhula~iae taken at Cambridge, Mass., in 1869, and one of Aramigus fulleri from the same locality taken in 1868; these dates are earlier than any hitherto recorded. Both specimens arefrom the collection of the late Mr. Edward Burgess.




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