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214 PSYCHE. [March 1895.
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 del- gaakohle BGhmens.
It is well to draw attention to two admirable brief illustrated papers published last year by Ch. Janet on Myrmica ritlirn, one on the morphology of the skeleton and especially of the poqthoracic segment (Mh. soc. scad.
de 1' Oisc, xv), the other on the anatomy of the petiole (Men?. soc. zool. France, 1894). We regret we have not space for n 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 boolis. The annual prcsidcnti~il address before the Entomological society of London by Capt. H. J. Elwee is on the geographical distribn- tion of butterflies and deals largely with those ofNorth America.
Dr. Ph. Bertkan nntiounces that his health obliges him to give up the admirable annual review of entomology which tias iippcarcd in the Archiv fur natiy'geechiclite since 1838 under different editors - Erichsvn, Schanm, Gerstacckcr, Brauer and Bertkau. Ento-
mologists are under great obligations to Dr. Bertlcau for the excellence of his summaries, their completeness and the promptness with which they have appeared, A still prompter method of rapid publication in all branches of biology is now- being planned which is iit the same time a pnictictil co~nbinalion of all the current reviews - a consummation
devoutly to be wished and helped forward. M. Emilc Blanchaid was retired November
last from the chair of entomology sit the Jardin des Plantes, on account of age; his first entomological paper was published
nearly seventy years ago; his successor has not yet been announced.
Fire has committed ravages with our ento- mologists this winter. Mr. J. G. Jack tost 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 Las Cruces, N. Mex., while he was absent for n 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; his loss is estimated at eighty thousand dollars.
Prof. C. 1-1. T. Townsend's address is
changed to Brownsville, Texas, where lie is working for the entomological division of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. His correspondents should send him new sets
of their publications.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE CLUB.
u January, 18g~.
The 185th regular and
18th annual 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 cxecutivc committee it was vkted that the treasurer be authorized to sell all the non-entomological and duplicate books now in tlic library, and such as niay hereafter be acquired and apply the proceeds to the pay- ment of the deficit on vol. 5 of Psyche until the same shall have been paid.
The following officers for 1895 were
elected : President, C. M. Weed of Durham. N. H. ; secretary, R. Hnywnrd; treasurer, S. I-Ienshaw ; libriiriitn, S. H. Scudder ; members at lar" of the executive com-
mittee, A. P. Morse aliil S. 1-1. Scridder. Mr. S. H. Scuclder 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 thc limits of the United States; the species appeared to be closely allied to, but appar- ently distinct from S. me,~ica7ium (Burm.) and S. utibreviatus Scudd., the latter a Brazilian species.




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Mr. Scudder also made some remarks upon
the ortlioptera~i genus Podisma Latr., going to show that it should supplant Pczotetlix as now used, and that Pezotettix should
take the place of Pliityphynia.
Mr. A. G. &layer rcmarlied that he had
treated the dark greenish fluid of the alimen- tary tract of the pupae of Telea $d~@hemus with nitric acid which had reacted upon it, changing its color to dull red, about the same shade as the ground color of the wings of Danais arclli'pits'; when treated with a strong alkali, such as cauhtic potash, its color changed to dark brown. His enquiry if it was known whether any of the pigments were derived from this fluid led to some discussion.
Mr. Scuddet- recalled to the club the
enlarged figure of the chrysalis of a species of Spalgis from Africa published by Dr.
Holland in the last volume of Psyche, which bore a striking resemblance to m ape's face ; and in connection therewith he exhibited a plate of an Indian species of the same genus since figured by Aitken in the Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society in which
the resemblance was even more remarkable- This Spalgis was also aphidivorous in the larval stage.
Mr. A. P. Morse showed a specimen of
PancJilora vi;å´irfi taken at Wellesley, Mass., on Dec. 12, 1894, and also specimens of a specics of Scirtes which he had taken abun- dantly on grape vines at Sherborn, Mass., in July last,
Mr. Seudder stated that he had received
this cockroach many years ago from the late Dr. S. Kneeland, taken flying in a Boston store on Dec. 26, 1878; he had also recorded its capture with the young in the bath room of a house on Lafayette Sq., Salem, Mass., An3 I, 1890, through Prof. E. S. Morse;
and as indicating how it reached such
northern localities it is worth recording that it was taken in March, 1891, by Prof. Roland Thaxter on the steamship Adiron-
dack while on her passage from Jamaica to New York.
Mr. Mayer said that a single specimen of Danais archippus came on shipboard about Sept 20, 1894, while he was cruising on the banks near Sable Island.
Just Published, by Henry Holt & Co., New York. Scudder's Brief Guide to the Com-
moner Butterflies.
By SAMUEL H. SCUDDER. xi + 206 pp.
Scudder's The Life of a Butterfly.
A Chapter in Natural History for
the General Reader,
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An introduction, for the young student, to the names and something of the relationship and lives of our commoner butterflies. The author has selected for treatment the bnttcr- flies, less than one hundred in number, which would be almost surely met with by an in- dustrious collector in a course of a year's or two year's work in our Northern States east of the Great Plains, and in Canada. While all the apparatus necessary to identify these butterflies, in their earlier as well as perfect stage, is supplied, it is far from the author's purpose to treat them as ifthey weresomany mere postage-stamps to he classified and ar- ranged in a cabinet. He has accordingly
added to the descriptions of the different spe- cies, their most obvious stages, some of the curious facts concerning their periodicity and their habits of life.
186 pp.
In this book the author has tried to present in untechnical language the story of the life of one of our most conspicuous American
butterflies. At the same time, by introduc- ing into the account of its anatomv, devel- opment, distribution, enemies, and seasonal cliaiiges some comparisons with the more or less dissimilar structureand life of other but- terflies, and particularly of our native forms, he has endeavored to give, in some fashion and in brief space, a general account of the lives of the whole tribe. By using a single b~ttterfly as a special Lext, one may discourse at pleasure of many: and in the limited field which our native butterflies cover, this meth- od has a certain advantage from its simplicity and directness.




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