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Psyche 8:299-312, 1897.

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December i8aS.J
PSYCH.,
DISSOSTEIRA IN COLORADO.
0s THE evening of July 21, this year,
locusts came from the west down into Colo- rado Springs in countless numbers. Press reports stated "at some places they were in piles from seven to ten inches deep." Elec- tric lights were not used for several evenings afterward to avoid attracting those passing over. Specimens sent by Board ot Coin-
merce of Colorado Springs to this depart- ment showed the invading species to be
Dissosieira Ion$ipennis. Engineers running from Limon, Col., to Goodland, Kans., told the writer that night trains encountered locusts in great numbers on the tracks in the vicinity of Arriba, Col., from July 23d to 26th. It seemed evident that the rails by retaining heat longer at night than the earth attracted the insects. From the numi- bers of Dissosteira loug'$emzi* found about the engines coming into Goodliind in the morning from the west, it ii safe to say that the above was the predominant species. 5. J. Hunter.
University of Kansas.
CALLIDRYAS KUB~?I.E has been flying in
Nonquitt, Mass., in September.
The butter-
flies were too numerous and too fresh to be strays, and must have been there as larvae, Caroline G. W e .
Brookline, Oct. 15,
PROCEEDINGS OF THE CLUB.
14 OCTOBER, 1898.
The 203d 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. A. M. Mayer gave an interesting
account of the Dry Tortiigas, where he had spent the summer, and exhibited a small
collection of insects which he had captured upon the islands, where insects are compar- atively scarce. Haraclides cresi>hontes, CaZ- Zidryas eubule and Anusha jlexippus occur as visitors only, as well as several Cuban moths; most of these are brought to the
islands by northeast or south winds. A
sphingid larva allied to Peilephila was seen, a single species of cricket and certain small Odonata. A Citrabid occurs, often in enor- mous swarms, and Scfiisfocerca ainvricana is abundant. A small, green mantis is said to occur every year.
The distribution and habits of these
insects were discussed.
Mr. S. H. Scudder showed a large series
of Melanopli, representing new species
which had appeared since his Revision was written. A large number belong to the
genus Mdanopitts alone; fourteen were
taken in California and Oregon by Mr. A. P. Morse and several in Colorado by Mr.
C. F. Baker; others are from Arizona-
Three peculiar and closely allied species come from Oregon and three more which.
are remarkably alike in the coloration of the hind femora but quite unlike in other respects were taken in the San Francisco Mts.
A paper was read for Mr. Geo. B. King,
of Lawrence, Mass., who states that Rifersia Zmii Ckll. was discovered June, 1896. in ~arious ant nests in Massachusetts. Since then much lime has been spent in search of its food plant and without success until the nth inst., when it was found feeding- at the roots 'of China asters, attended by Lasius americmus Em.
Nearly all the plants in the
bed were found to have a herd of these Coccids attached to their roots and in every instance the ant was present with them. There were also found, on some of the roots, three species of Aphids, usually found in ant nests in the vicinity of Lawrence : Afihis waidi-radicis, Schizoneitra comi and Pemi>Iligiis sp. The paper will appear in PSYCHE.
Mr. Scudder read extracts from letters
which he had received : Mr. James H.Johnson,. of Peterboro, N. H., reports the occurrence of Ewromz maia upon Sfiircea +ZicifoZia, or " hardhack " ; also the capture, by'himself,.



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of a single specimen of Ez~rymns inferior at Chzrlestown, N. H., May I, 1892. This
locality is noteworthy 21s the insect has hitherto been recorded from New England
only in the northern parts of New Hamp-
shire, Vermont, and Maine.
Mr. S. J. Hunter, of Lawrence, Kansas,
writes that he has collected Dissosfeira lostgi- ĺ´penni in countries "west of the 99th meridian. One specimen, ho-vvever, was seen in Leaven- worth County in the fall of 1897, two were . taken in August and another in September of the present year, (See another page), Mr. Scudder further said that by the
courtesy of Miss Gibbes he had been per- mitted to see a few notes on butterflies mxle by the late Prof. Lewis R. Gibbes at Charles- ton, S. C. Asan indicztion of the rarity there of Eitvanessfi a/fttopa, it is noted that he had seen but two specimens, one taken in April, 1879% in Magnolia Cemetery, the other rem-ed May 2, 1874, after sixteen days in chrysalis, Callidiyus cub-ide was reared Oct. 3 after ten days in chrysalis.; and a larva "probably of Pyrameis afulafita" (but which from his
brief description may as likely be cardui) was takenJune 8,1874, on Aescdns~urvi/Sora, a new food plant (even to the family- Sapin- daceae) for either atalanta or cardui.
Mr. A. N. Candell said that lie had seen a few examples of Jiiuvmessa antiopa in Okla- homa in the fall of 1897.
Mr. Mayer remarked upon an item in a
daily paper concerning a migration of bntter- flies observed in Wichita, Kansas. The swarm 800 PSYCHE. [December 1808
consisted principally of A. $Zexip-pus, and P ajax. Some discussion followed upon the
subject.
Mr. J. W. Folsoin exhibited drawings of
Japanese Collembola which he had recently studied through the kindness of Prof. Pack- ard. The collection was made' by Prof.
C. Tshikawa, of Tokyo, and comprises eleven species, of which six species and one variety are new. Comparisons between the Collem- bola of Japan :md those of other countries were given.
Mr. A. P. Morse reported the serious deras- tations caused by C-lisiocam$a &stria in Woodstock, Vt., during the kist summer.
Mztples, birches and apple-trees, especially, were hadly defoliated and were frequently stripped and killed. No trees were exempt from attack except the black-walnut and cer- tain conifers. As the attacks are yearly increasing in severity, the outlook for next year is alarming.
The hahits and parasites of the insect
were discussed.
Mr. W. L. Tower gave some results of his studies upon a large series of PZ riipae, collected at high altitudes in Colorado. The butterfly is known to breed at an altitude of 9,,joo feet and occurs as high as 12,000 feet. Mr. Tower's series, collected Mr. E. J. Oslar, shows a gradual diminution in size and a tendency to albinism in proportion to the altitude.
Tile subject of albinism and melanism
was then considered by the members.
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