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by a third of an inch wide; the heavier
veins of the oak are avoided. They are ex- ceedingly slow in movement. One re-
mained almost motionless for four or five hours and then climbed the side of the box slowly and cautiously.
The earliest pairing of the sexes was noted Sept. 22, and a male was in one instance al- most continuously coupled with a female for eight days, and died immediately afterward, while the female lived until December 10, laying eggs at intervals. Mr. L. Tronvelot who also reared this insect found ihat the male usually died within two days after the close of copulation. One female laid 38
eggs between Sept. 10 and Oct. and died
Oct. 11 with 15 developed and .=; or 6 unde- veloped eggs in her ovaries. The eggs are dropped loosely upon the ground and it h:is repeatedly happened to Mr. Trouvelot and myself that eggs which did not hatch after the winter had passed went over a second winter and then gave out the young. Out
of no eggs laid one October only 7 hatched the next year, in July; in another year the earliest eggs hatched June 22.
Mr. J. Elliot Cabot informed me tliat at Beverly, Mass., tlie country people call these insects " witches horses."
Samuel H^ Scudder.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE CLUB.
9 October, 1896.-The 193d meeting was
held at MY, S. Hcnshaw's, Mercer Circle, Cambridge.
Mr. A. P. Morse in the chair.
Mr. S. Heushaw showed specimens of
Trollies et@7ioruni from Cooktown, Qneens- land, Australia.
Some discussion followed, in which all
participated, upon the abundance of the
following insects around Boston during the past summer, /. P., the army {Lattcama
mntfuurta), the larvae of Lachnosterna, Cy- 'fiio~kynckns lafetde and Pafiltofihilenor. Mr. J. W. Folsom spoke of a new species
of tnyrmecophilous Smynthimis in which
the eyes are waifiiiig and remarked upon its characters and upon the habits of inyrme- cophilous Thysanura. Me showed drawings
of the new species.
Mr. R. Hajward spoke briefly upon
Phewodes 'filumosa. Glow-worms were
very abundant in Milton during the past
summer, but although he bad searched care- fully for them, he had found but one male imago and that at a considerable distance from where the glow-worms were seen.
They had fed in captivity upon earthworms and a species of Julns.
13 November, 1896.- The ig4th
meeting
was held at Mr. S. Henshaw's, Mcrcer Circle, Cambridge, Mr. A. G. Mayer in the chair. Mr. E. A. C. Olive and Miss Mabel Olive
of Cooktown, Hueensland, Austr a 1" la, were elected to active membership.
Mr. A. G. Mayer gave an interesting nc-
count of his recent trip lo Australia and briefly mentioned his observations on the 111- sect fauna, as well as his general impi-es- sions of that region.
The Butterflies of the Eastern United States and Canada. With special reference to New England.
By SAMUEL H. SCUDDBR.
Illustrated with 96 plates of Butterflies, Caterpillars, Chrysalids, etc. (of which 41 are colored) which include about 2,000 Figures besides Maps and Portraits. 1958 Pages of Text.
Vol. I. Introduction ; Nymphalidae.
Vol. i.
Remaining Families of Butterflies.
Vol. 3.
Appendix, Plates and Index.
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32 PSYCHE.
[February 1897.
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