Packard.] 88 [November 28^ 



be judged by the Publishing Committee suitable for publica- 

 tion in the Proceedings and Memoirs of the Society shall be 

 read by the Secretary at the next regular meeting of the So- 

 ciety. 



7th. ^N^) change shall be made in the foregoing rules at 

 any meeting of the Section at which less than live members 

 shall be present. 



Dr. A. S. Packard remarked upon the increasing distribu- 

 tion of the canker worm {Anisopteryx vernata). Up to 

 within a recent time, it had not been supposed to extend 

 farther north than Charles River, but recently, while on a 

 visit in the neighborhood of the White Mountains of New 

 Hampshire, he had discovered the males of both species of 

 Anisopteryx flying in the evening in abundance, and had 

 seen them on mountains from 2500 to 3000 feet high. Prof. 

 A. Winchell of Michigan, had also found the Aniso2)teryx 

 pometaria in that State. 



Mr. P. R. Uhler inquu-ed whether any of the members 

 had ever witnessed any insects flying by means of their fore 

 wings alone. He stated that he had seen upon the wing 

 large numbers of our Neraobius vittatus^ whose hind wings 

 are nearly abortive, and that in the neighborhood of Balti- 

 more he had Avitnessed, on two occasions, the males of Horea 

 sanguhiipennis, which have no rudiments of wings, and dis- 

 proportionately heavy bodies, flying in early May by means 

 of their elytra alone. 



Mr. F. G. Sanborn stated that in digging recently on the 

 banks of the Merrimac, for aboriginal relics, he had found 

 from three to four feet below the surface, in light, sandy soil, 

 living specimens of Cotalpa lanigera, Cicmdela generosa 

 and repanda and Lachnosterna fusca. 



Mr. W. T. Brigham inquired how much was known about 

 the longevity of the eggs of the PhasinidcB. He had made 

 a collection of insects in the summer of 1863, and nearly two 

 years afterwards had sealed it up ; on opening it again, 

 after a long absence, he discovered that an q^^ of Diapher- 



