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inches in length. The granules had dis-
appeared, leaving only minute spots of
. brown paler than the body. The third and fourth segments were still so little enlarged as to be noticed only by an entomologist. All the other marks weie as before.
fitly rzfh.- The larvue grew to look dusty on the back, and stopped eating.
yuly @.-Pupated. Pupa one and one-
half inches long, neither stout nor slender; very dark brown, and coffee-colored between the abdominal segments. Segments honey-
combed; wing covers slightly rough; eye
covers well defined. There was a slight
pointed tubercle at the base of each antenna, close to the eye. Anal hook long, slender, with a bifid tip.
The second larva differed from this de-
scription in having much clearer find darker markings, and in being a trifle smaller. In
the last moult it was at first bright green with dark green markings, but became
brown twenty-four hours later. This one
also spun a few threads fastening a leafto the tin, while the first one did not spin at all. The pupa was a trifle smailcr llian the first one, and on January qth, 1895, at 2 P.M., gave a fine f Amfkion nessm.
RHOPALOMERA XANTHOPS, SP. NOV.
BY S. W. WILLISTON, LAWRENCE, KANS.
, 9. Face wholly light yellow, with
a small rounded tubercle near the middle. Palpi yellow, blackish at the proximal
extremity. Antennae reddish yellow, the
first two joints largely, and the third on the upper border, blackish.
Front yellow,
black or blackish on the anterior margin; no lateral frontal bristles; a pair of minute proclinate ocellar bristles present. Meso- notuin reddish brown: when seen from in
front with two distinct stripes reaching from the anterior border to about midway on the scutellum ; a less distinct, median stripe, a narrow stripe on either side behind the suture, and the lateral margins in front, all opaque light yellow. Pleurae pitchy
brown, mostly shining'; a single nieso-
pleural bristle present. Scutellurn gently silicate above, the distal balf shining
mahogany-colored. Abdomen black or deep
reddish black; second, third, fourth and fifth segments citch with the sides silvery white; between these spots there are two rows of similarly colored spots, becoming ~uccessively smaller, those of the second segment more or less coalescent with the lateral ones. Ii~popygiuni black or pitchy black, shining. Legs pitchy black, the
upper part of the fcmora, more reddish;
the immediate base of all the tibiae and the iirst two joints of all the tarsi light yellow ; hind tibiae dilated and ciliated, the row of bristles not very strong and not implanted on tubercles. Wings strongly
tinged with brown, which is more intense distally in front and about the cross-veins, Length IC-11 mm.
Ten specimens, Yucatan, G. F. Gaumer,
Coll. Univ. of Kans. 2 It is possible that this species may be identical with the
insufficiently described R, flavice$s of Macquart, from New Grenada, but not
probable, as there are positive discrepancies in the description of the head, thorax and abdomen. In several specimens the face
is for the greater part blackish, probably the result of desiccation.
In a paper read to the K. bfihn~. gesell- schaft der wissenschaften on November zy3 last, Or. Anton Fritsch, of Prag, announced the discovery in the Permian beds ofBohemia of the larval cases of a caddis-fly. This is the first indication of the existence of insects with a complete metamorphosis in paleozoic times, unless the doubtful fragments found by Uathe in Silesian culm are to be regarded as shards of beetles, or the passages found in certain carboniferous woods are to be credited



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PSYCHE. [March 1893
to coleopterous larvae. It is to be hoped that Dr. Fritsch will amply illustrate these remains in his great work now in progress on the Fauna der gaskohle Bijhmens.
It is well to draw attention to two admirable brief illustrated papers published last year by Ch. Janet on Myrmica ritl/rn, one on the morphology of the skeleton and especially of the po~thoriicic segment (Mh. soc. acad. cle 1' Oise, xv), the other on the anatomy of the petiole (Men?. ROC. zool. France, 1894). We regret we have not space for a full
analysis of each, but they will be found of great interest to morphologists and hymen- opterists. The clear illustrations are pretty sure to find their way into text books.
The annual prcsidcutinl addrcss before the Entomological society of London by Capt. H. J. Elwes is on the geographical distribti- lion of butterflies and deals largely \+it11 those of North America.
Dr. Ph. Bertkan announcesthat his health obliges him to give up the admirable annual review of cntoniulogy which hiis, appeared in the Archiv fur natiy'geschichte since 1838 under different editorb - Erichson, Schaum, Gerstsiccker, Braiier and Bei-tkan. Ento- mologists are under great obligations to Dr. Bertkiui for the excellence of his summaries, their completeness and the promptness ivith which they have appeared. A still prompter method of rapid publication in all branches of biology is now being plmined which is at the same lime a priicticut co~nbinaLion of all the current reviews - a cons~immation
devoutly to be wished and helped forward. 'M. Emilc Btanchard was retired November last from the chair of entomology at the Jardin des Pkntefc, 011 account of age; his first enlornological paper was published nearly seventy years ago; his successor has not yet been announced.
Fire has committed ravages with our ento- mologists tl~is winter. Mr. J. G. JELCI; lost his library and collection in Jamaica Plain by the destruction of the building in which they were kept; Prof. C. H. Tyler Townsend lost his valuable dipterological library (nearly complete for America and very full for Europe) by the burning of the warehouse at 1,as Cruces, N. Mex., while he was absent for a few weeks at Washington; and now
comes news that Rev. C. J. S. Bethune's
school at Port Hope, Ont., has been burnt to the ground; Ins loss is estimated at eighty thousand dollars.
Prof. C. 11. T. Townsend's address is
changed to Brownsville, Texas, where lie is working for the entomological division of the U. S. Depiu-tment of Agriculture. His correspondents should send him new sets
of their publictitions.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE CLUB
II January, 1895.
The iS.jtli regular and
18th annuxl meeting (since incorporation) was held at 156 Brattle St. Mr. S. H.
Scudder in the chair.
The annual reports of the officers were
read and accepted.
In accordance with the recommendation of the executive committqe it was v,)ted that the treasurer be authorized to sell all the nun-ento~nological and duplicate books now in thc library, and buch as ~n:iy hereafter be acquired and apply the proceeds to the pay- ment of the deficit on vol. 5 of Psyche until the same shall ha\-e been paid.
The following officers for 1895 were
elected : President, C. M. Weed of Durham. N, 13. ; secretary. R. Hayward ; treasurer, S. I-lenshaw; libriu-itin, S. H. Scudder; members at Iaqe of the executive com-
mittee, A. P. Morse anti S. 1-1. Scudder. Mr. S. 14. Scut-ldcr exhibited specimens of the cat-flea taken in Cambridge and two
species of Scapteriscus taken in southern Florida by Mrs. A. T. Slosson and the late Mr. Morrison. It is the first time this genus of mole crickets has been recognized within the limits of the United States; the species appeared to be clobdy allied to, but appiir- ently distinct from S. mevsicaniim (Burin.) and S. ubbre-viatus Sciidd., the latter a Briizilian species.




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