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The J7. capitata Smith seems to differ only from this group 

 by the larger, spinose head. 



6. Group occidentalis. 



Females. 



a. Thorax elongate or pyrifonn. 



Xortoni ~B\., fonnosa BL, balop/'/iis Bl., altamira Bl., 

 r^/>s Cress. 



aa. Thorax shorter, hexagonal. 



Crcssoni, toliica, ariadnc, solola , .\~alisco, all of Blake. 



Males. 



a. First segment distinctly nodose. 



Macilcnta BL, apicalata BL, fT/Aw*/ Cres., <r:'/Vm Bl. 



8. Group imperialis. 



(Orizaba BL 



ii. Group hexagona. 



Oajaca BL , palliccps Cress., Icona Bl. 



12. Group scrupea. 

 Tolteca, cubcnsis, cinaloa, yucatana, all of Blake. 



THE HARRIS CLUB is the name which has been chosen for Boston's 

 new entomological society, whose second meeting was held in the Puritan 

 Building, 35 Court street, on the evening of December 15, 1899. Twelve 

 persons attended the meeting, of whom four Messrs. John Lowell, Lau- 

 rence Brooks, A. H. Clark and C. F. Bowers were new members. Mr. 

 H. H. Newcomb showed a double cocoon made by larvae of Sainia 

 cvnthin ; outwardly it gave no hint of abnormality, but sectioning dis- 

 closed two inner chambers, placed end to end, each sheltering a pupa. 

 Both pupae had died prematurely. Some dwarf images of the same 

 species, reared from underfed larva; by Mr. F. H. Foster, were also 

 shown. Both sexes are represented in the series. Mr. Lowell told of 

 experiments made by him in the taming of butterflies ; considerable 

 success was had with Papilio astcrias, which has a habit of patrolling 

 a definite area, and is not easily frightened away. Mr. E. B. Clapp 

 gave an account of a collecting trip to Florida, and exhibited some 

 Florida specimens of Neonymf>ha <'nniris which differ markedly from 

 those commonly taken in the North. Mr. Clark reported the capture of 

 a specimen of Mclitcca fhicton var. snf>i-rlw Strk. in Newton, Mass. 

 W. L. W. FiKU>, 



* Rubrueps Cress, from Cuba, iztafa Bl. from Honduras, proserpina. Bl. from same 

 region probably belong bere. These are the only three exotic species described by these 

 authors which I have not seen. 



