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ment, after an interval of years ! " It is the longest-lived of our butter- 

 flies " ; " continues upon the wing until July and Augusr, laying eggs all 

 the time " ; " the perfect insect often lives a full year, mingling on the 

 wing with its own progeny, and witnessing the decay and growth of the 

 plant which nourished it " I ! 



I'liroughout this book Arcliippiis is ostentatiously called The Mon- 

 arch, I apprehend in right of its amazing history. If it lives as long for 

 a butterfly as Methusaleh lived among men, it may be entitled to some sort of 

 distinctive appellation, and if it has so changed the habits of its kind as 

 to breed like a mammal, laying eggs at intervals in the closing half of its 

 long life, and gathering its progeny about its tibiae, perhaps it ought to 

 have some superlative title. We read that Methusaleh lived after he begat 

 Lamech seven hundred and eighty and two years, and begat sons and 

 daughters, but his long life appears to have been that venerable man's 

 sole claim to distinction. We do not read that he attained regal honors, 

 or even the chieftainship of a tribe. In view, therefore, of this high 

 precedent, I suggest that the correct thing would have been to designate 

 this long-lived, phenomenal butterfly not The Monarch, but The 

 Patriarch. 



MEETING OF THE SUB-SECTION OF ENTOMOLOGY OF THE 

 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCE- 

 MENT OF SCIENCE. 



(Continued from Page 189.) 



On Saturday morning the Entomological Sub-section was again in 

 session, when the following papers were read : 



The Egg Case of Hydrophilus triangularis, by C. V. Riley ; on tlie 

 Oviposition of Prodoxus decipiens, and also one on the Cocoon of Gyrinus 

 by the same author. Following these a paper was presented by B. P. 

 Mann, entitled. Suggestions of Co-operation in Furthering the Study of 

 Entomology ; and another by C. V. Riley, on New Insects Injurious to 

 American Agriculture. 



In this latter paper the author called attention to several insects 

 hitherto unknown as injurious, which during the present year have proved 

 very destructive to one crop or another. Such hitherto unknown and 

 unreported injury is either caused by, ist, imported species ; 2nd, native 

 species previously known but without destructive habit ; 3rd, unknown or 



