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226 PSYCHE. [June 1898.
end, far apart from each other, are two small round orifices. Margin minutely beaded with brown. The pupa has the usual oval form, and is hardly over xmm. long, minutely
transversely ribbed down the middle of the back; with twelve broad ribbon-like rays of glassy secretion, not much shorter than itself. These rays are of a bright lemon yellow, except at their ends, which are white. Lar- val skin attached to dorsum of pupa.
Hab. - Frontera, Tabasco, Mexico, on
leaves of a tree having small white flowers. (Townsend.) Div. Ent. 7669. Allied to
A, stellafa. The insect looks like a coccid of the genus Vinsonia.
Mesilla Park, X M.
April 7, 1898.
PACKARD'S NEW MANUAL.
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is too little room in our small journal for the fuller notice it deserves, hut we strongly advise its purchase by every entomologist, as a marvellous
storehouse of facts, where
the latest researches find a place.
JOSEPH ALBERT LINTNER.
A DISPATCH from Rome, Italy, announcing
the death of the state entomologist of New York, was published in the newspapers on the very day we received his twelfth Report on the insects of New York, a volume of more than a hundred and fifty pages, and, like all of his papers, filled with the proof of pains- taking conscientious labor. Let 11s hope his successor will prove as diligent and faithful.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE CLUB.
8 APRIL, 1898.
The mrst meeting of the
club was held at 156 Brattle St., the President in the chair; Mr. J. W. Folsom was chosen secretary pro tern.
Mr. S. H. Scudder exhibited the North
American species of Scudderiae and briefly summarized the result of his recent studies upon that group. Thirteen species are
known, of which one necessitates a new
genus, Platylyra. All the eleven species of Scudderia are closely similar to each other, with a few striking exceptions, and fall into four groups, based especially upon the struc- ture of the male genitalia, of which drawings were shown. The species septentrionalis and forcipata are remarkably peculiar in respect to their accessory genital organs. Five
species occur in New England, of which
furcata is found across the continent, and texensis ranges as far west as Utah.
Mr. J. W. Foil-om said that nothing had
hitherto been published concerning the
Collemhola of Japan, but showed specimens and figures of three new species from Tokyo.



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June 1898.1 PSYCHE. 227
(Achorzties commuuis, Xenylla longicauda, and S&a japonica) which were collected by Dr. Seitaro Goto and brought by Prof. Mitsukuri of the Imperial University.
Some discussion followed upon the geo-
graphical distribution of Collemhola. Mr. Folsom observed that in an unusual number of cases the same species has been recorded from most widely separated regions of the earth; Ackorntes armat-us, for example, ap- pears to occur throughout Europe and in
California, Massachusetts, Uraguay, Valpa- raise, Siberia, Sumatra and Greenland. It must be said, however, that the species of Collembola have too often been imperfectly identified.
In response to remarks by Mr. Scudder
upon the Collembola of Greenland, Mr.
Folsom stated that a number of nearly allied species are found in this vicinity which pass the winter in the adult condition and which, though often frozen and apparently lifeless, readily regain activity upon exposure to warmth.
Mr. A. P. Morse said he had received from Mr. H. K. Bnrrison of West Newton, Mass., a fresh, active and adult specimen of Cono- cefialus dissimilis, which was found about the middle of last March in amass of spinach. The dealer from whom the vegetable was
obtained was unable to state whence it came, except that it Tvas from the south. Mr.
Scudder said that the insect had been rarely reported north of Maryland, but had been noted from southern Connecticut and New
York.
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228 PSYCHE. [June ~898.
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