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~ugust, ~qoo.] 3'6' YCHE. 9 5
LOCALITIES FOR WESTERN 'I'RYX-
ALTNAE.
In recent papers I have given descriptions of Tryxalinae brought home from the Pacific coast by Mr. A. P. Morse and with them
localities at which certain other described species were taken. -In the present note I add other localities for described Tryxa- linae all from the collection of Mr. Morse. Sybnia acuficumis Brun. Mesilla, N,
Mex., July I.
Sy?+h/t/a adim'rabi'lis (Uhl.) Flnlonia, Tex., June 25.
Fiootettist arfentafns Brun. hfesilla, N. Mex., July I; Juarez, Mex., July 3; Vuma, Ariz., July 5; Indio, Cai., July 9; Pnlm Springs, Cal., July 12.
Mesochloft afioriiva (Brun.) Flatonia,
Tex., June 25.
AmfJtttornus ormti'ti.~ McNeill. Mesilla, N. Mes., July I; Cahon Pass, CAI., July 19; Pt. Loina, Cal., July 23; .TAN Angeles, Cal., Jnly 25 ; Lancaster Cal., Aug. I ; Gazelle, GI., Sept. 5 ; Aslilan~l, Or., Sepl. 7.
Al-fiha che-rea? (Briin.) Sierra Bianca, Tex., June 26; Mesilln, N. Mex., June 30; Cahon Pass, Cal., July 18.
Brnnftrif-c s/ias/ma (Scudd.) Mt. Shasta Cal , Sept. 2.
Pseloessa maczilipennis Scudd. Alpine,
Valentine and Sierra Blanca, Tex., June 26. Agvueotc//i~' deorim? (Scudd.) Mesilla, N. Mex., July 2
Ligzt~ofeHis coquillefiii McNeill. Yuma, Ariz., July 5; Palm Springs, Cal., July 12; Lancaster, Cal., Aug. I.
Samuel H. Scucfcler.
OCCURREXCE OF MVRMRLKON IMMACL'LAT-
UM DE GEER IN MAINE. -My attention was
called Aug. 29, 1897, by Prof. H. S. Pratt to a number of holes or pits of ant-lions near Bninswick, Maine, between the town and
New Wharf, and visiting the spol I found them in abundance in a sunny exposure in a sand-bank sheltered by the projecting turf. There were over 75 holes in one place and 55 in another. The next year T observed that some were still living there, but not so many. Miss Hale of Sherbrook, Canada,
took some of the larvae home with her and from one of them was fortunate enough to rear the imago. This she kindly presented to me and I find by comparison with the
specimens in the IIagen collection of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cam-
bridge, that it is the species named iibovc. Miss Hale kept the larvae through the win- ter, feeding them with Tineid laivae, flies and spideis. One began to &pin its cocoon
March 5, the operation being completed with- in a clay. The imago emerged June 1st.
1-Ieretofoie the northernmost published
locality for this species lias been Salem, Mass. (See K~nerton in Amer. Naturalist iv., p. 70.5, Figs. 1% 162). Einerton's larva &pun Mily 15, the imago einei-giiig Jiirie 25, "a very hot day."
This species of ant-lion has a very wide ningc; the following are tlie loeali~ies under the specimens in the Cambridge Museum, for which I am iiidehled to Mr. S. IIenshnw : Keene, N. H., Michigan, Washington, D. C., North Carolina, 'Pexn'i, Color:itio, Oregon, and California.- A. S. Packard.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE CLUB.
9 March, 191x1. The 2131.11 meeting was liclcl at 156 Brattle St., Mr. S. JI. Scudder in the cliiiir. Messrs. James A. Field and Carl Otto Zerrahn were elects1 to activc membership. Mr. S. 11. Scmidei" said he was working on a new list of the Orthoptera of New England; ninety-five species have thus far been taken. He also made some comparisons of the or- thoplerous faunas ot"England and New Eng- land. Some dkciissions on distribution
followed.
13 April, 1900.
The 214th meeiing was
hcld at 156 Brattle St., Mr. S. 11. Scudder in the chair. Mr. A. P. Morse was chosen sec- tary pro tein.




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96 PSYCHE. [~ugust, 1900.
Mr. S. H. Scudder said he lind completed a new list of New England Orthoptera for pnh- ication in Psyche, extending to very nearly one hundred species. The list of 1862 con- tained seventy-eight species, and the names then used were now changed in about three quarters of the instances.
Mr. W. L. Tower said lie had studied the development of the wings in 1~eptinot:irsa (Doryphorn) 10-lineata, Say. The elytra
and hind wings arise in exactly the same way and at the siinie time, in the first iar- val stage. The ectoderm of the body wall thickens, and itivaginates ; then the dorsal part of the invagination becomes thickened and is evaginated as the fundament of the wing into the cavity of the first invagination, which now becomes a peripodal sac. The
wings develop parallel thronghont the larvill life. The clytl-ii do nut begin to become modified 'until the pro-pupa stages are
reached. The wings become external by the withdrawal of the peripodal sac.
In the second larval stage a transient ti-a- cheal system enters each wing, and in the third stage six principal tnicbeal trunks enter each wing. Just before pupation the vena- tion of the wings, which is indicated by the trachea, are almost identical. In this beetle I regard the elytra :IS true wings and not as divergent specialized structures as Kn-igel (1899) claims them to be.
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