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March 1897.1 Z'5' 2'T/IE. 43
EDWARDS' BUTTERFLIES N. A.
The plates of the concluding part of
Edwards' great work on North American
butterflies. are entirely devoted to species ot Chionobas, all containing abundant illusti a- tions of the early stages. In the volume now concluded, moreover, Edwards has figured with a wealth of illustrations the complete or almost complete life-histories of no less than a dozen species of this boreal genus, which would seem, from the out of the way places one must reach to find the insect at all, to be the most difficult genus of our butterflies to treat in this way.
It is a monument to the
author's energy and skill. Numerous sup - plementiiry notes on various butterflies are added to this concluding Part, besides an in- dex to the three quarto volumes now issued. We can but congratulate the iuithor on the handsome completion of his nearly thirty years work, hut we wish they were more to come.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE CLUB.
11 December, 1896.- The 145th meeting
was held at Mr. S. Henshaw's, Mercer Circle, Cambridge, Mr. J. W. Fulson~ in the cliiiir; Mr. 1x7. I,. W. Field was chosen secretary pro tempore.
Mr. S. Henshaw exhibited a specimen of
a tropicnl cockroach (Hormetica sp.), cnp- lured in Belmont, Mass. ; it is supposed to have been brought north in a bunch o[
bananas.
Mr. W. T.. W. Field told of the capture of a male and female of Libyiheu ImcJimuiii in Milton, Muss., on July 17 and Aug. 9, ruspcc- lively, by Mr. C. 0. Z&rrahn; and ofthe cap- ture of a single battered male of Meyaiios- ioma caesouia in Alstead, N. Hi on July 25, 1896 by Mr. James A. Field.
Mr. J. W. Folsom exhibited a collection of miscellaneous specimens, mostly spiders and cochroaches, the result of a visit to a banana vessel now discharging her cargo in Boston. 8 January, 1897.- The 196th regular and
20th annuid meeting (since incorporation) was held at I 56 Brattle St.. Mr. A. P. Morse in the Chair.
The several annual reports were read.
The following officers were elected ; Piesi- dent, 1-1. G. Dyar of New York; Scci etnry, Roland Hayward ; Treasurer, Samuel Hen-
sh&w; Librarian, Samuel II. Scudder; Exe- cutive Committee at large, A, P. Moi se and S. H. Scudder.
The annual address of the retiring Presi- dent, H. S. Piatt, on Imaginal Discs in
Insects, was reid bj S. H. Scuclder. (Printed in Psyche for February).
The Treasurer and Secretary were ap-
pointed a committee to revise the list of Active Members of the Club.
Mr. A. G. Majer read a paper on a new
hypothesis of seasonal dimorphism in Lepi- doptera, which was discussed by Messrs.
Scudder, Morse and Folsom, and will appear in full in Psyche.
Mr. S. H. Scudder staled that during a
few days collecting on Mt. Desert lsl., Me., in the latter pnrt of August, he only came across 13 different kinds of Ortlioptern aud none of them were very abundant. On the
top of one of the highest mountains, Mi. Snrgent (about 14ooJ), MclanO-plus maimis mil M. faaciutiis were found, which dkl not occur below, but M. aflina'swas common and M femnr-nibi-iim not observed, while at low levels M ailcinis was scarce and M. femur- rubritm common. Besides the latter species, the only common forms at the lower levels were A7emobiu.* fasciattis, Camnula ĺ´fielin cidu, Circofefiix verrucniuiiis, Steuobothm mri'ife.?zms. Orphila fnacdipeunis, and Mc- Jano/ilii.s fe?woratws.
Hardly a single locus-
laria11 was seen and very few indeed heard. The other species noted were Sciidiieria $is- tillafa, Monoietfix wisfatns and C!torfof//eiga vir~'fascia/u. Only 7 species of butter- flies were seen and insects of all sorts were exceptionally scarce.
Mr. Scudder dso stated that he had re-
ceived from Prof. C. M. Weed the Orthoptera he collected in Bermuda on a recent visit. There were but six species; Lafiidtira +ii- ha, Pe/-i$lt19ze/ct aiisiralasfae, LeucqMaea .wriuainensis, Orphiila olivacca, Conocepia- Ins flisco-stridus and a species of Gryll~is apparently new.
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44 PSYCHE. I March 1897.
A NEW VOLUME OF PSYCHE
Began in January, 1897, and will continue through three years. The subscription
price (payable in advance) is $5.00 per volume, or $3.00 per year, postpaid. Numbers are issued on the first cUiy of each month. Libraries and individuals generally ordering through subscription agencies (which only take annual swb- scriptiom) will please notice that it is cheaper to subscribe for the entire volume at once directly of us.- Any early volume c:in be had for $5.00, unbound. Address Psyche, Cambridge, Mass.
Vols. 1-7, Complete, Unbound = = = = = - $33.00. Vols. 1-7, and Subscription to Volume 8 = = = - $37.00. Vol. 7 contains over So0 pp. and 10 plates, besides other illustrations. Just Published, by Henry Holt & Co., New York. Scudder's Brief Guide to the Com-
moner Butterflies.
By SAMUEL 13. SCUDDER. xi + 206 pp.
I21nO. $1.25.
An introduction, fbr the younptudent, to the names and something of the relationship and lives ofonr commoner butterflies. The author has selected for treatment the butter- flies, less t.han one hundi-ed in number, which would be almost surely met with b,v an in- dustrions collector in a course of a year's or two year's work in our Northern States cast of the Great Plains, and in Canada. While all the tppa,ratiis necessary to identify these biiLLerfl~es, in their earlier as well as perfect stage, is supplied, it is far from the mtlior's purpose to treat them ;is if theywcrcso many mere postage-stamps to he classified and ar- ranged in a cabinet. He has accordingly
added to the descriptions of the clilTerent spc- cies, their most obvious stages, some of the curious fiicts concerning their periodicity and their habits of life.
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Scudder's The Life of a Butterfly.
A Chapter in Natural History for
the General Reader.
In this book the author has tried to present in untechnical 1angii;i';e the story of the life of one of our most conspicuous American
bulterflies. At the same time, by introduc- ing into the ~iccount of its anatomy, devel- opment, distribution, enemies, and seasonal chaiiges some comparisons with the more or less dissimilar structure and life of other but- terflics, 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- ;i single butterfly as a special text, one may discourse at pleasure of many: and in the limited field which our native butterflies cover, this nietlv od has a certain sidviintqe from its simplicity and dircct~iess.
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