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PSYCHE. 



[December 18^5. 



^uiie /j. Moulted, i^ inches long. As 

 before except that the body below the sub- 

 dorsal lines was thickly granulated with 

 yellow; the caudal horn became green be- 

 neath, yellow on the sides, with a black line 

 on the upper side and a black band just 

 below the green tip. The spiracles showed 

 as two blue black lines with white between 

 and a yellowish dot at each end. When 

 disturbed the larvae twitched and jerked from 

 side to side like abhottii and nessiis. 



y line 20. Moulted. li inches long. As 

 before, except a blue green dorsal line ex- 

 tended from second segment to the horn, the 

 first segment being smoother and greener 

 than any other ; and the caudal horn had 

 become pink above and beneath, yellow on 

 the sides and tip, slightly rough. The larvae 

 rested with the head and first three segments 

 thrown back over the abdominal segments, 

 like myron. 



June 2^. The larvae were 2J1 inches long. 

 The subdorsal lines had faded, except on the 

 first three and the preanal segments, and 

 had wholly disappeared from the 4th, 5th, 

 and 6th segments. The obliques were much 

 less conspicuous. The caudal horn was 

 shining yellow at the upper end, rough and 

 pink below, short, stout, almost triangular 

 when seen from the front. It was very small 

 in proportion to the size of the larva. The 

 yellow face-lines nearest the median suture 

 could hardly be seen. 



June 26. They stopped eating, and their 

 heads and backs turned deep, dull pink. 



July I. Pupated well, the pupae being 

 very strongly marked. 



The seven larvae found varied somewhat 

 in color, some being of a very white green 

 instead of the deep yellow green of the first 

 two. Some had but seven obliques instead 

 of eight, and two lost the eighth oblique at 

 the last moult. Three or four had caudal 

 horns green and yellow instead of pink and 

 yellow. Two or three grew to a length of 

 2| inches. Caroline G. Soule. 



Brookline, Mass. 



SCHISTOCERCA AMERICANA IN 

 NEW ENGLAND 



On Oct. 1st, 1SS3, I found this species at 

 Wollaston, Mass. No record has ever been 

 made of the capture, for at the time I was 

 not interested in Orthoptera, and did not 

 know the identity of the specimens. It 

 was only recently that an examination by 

 Mr. A. P. Morse of material collected by me 

 years ago revealed the fact ot its having been 

 taken at that time. 



It was tolerably abundant in one spot on 

 the beach, where it was found among the 

 tall grass below high-tide mark. Not know- 

 ing its value at the time, I failed to take more 

 than a single specimen. 



A search in the same locality this year 

 failed to reveal any trace of its present 

 existence there, so that it seems probable 

 that it was by some means brought there 

 and gained a temporary foothold. As the 

 locality has been recently built upon to 

 some extent it may have been exterminated 

 bv this means. Frank H. Sfrague. 



THE INSECT COLLECTION OF THE 

 U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



The staff of the Department of Insects of 

 the L'. S. National Museum has been reor- 

 ganized as a result of the sad death of the 

 former Honorary Curator, Professor C. V. 

 Riley. 



The reorganization has been effected by 

 the appointment of Mr. L. O. Howard, 

 Entomologist of the U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture, to the position of Honorary 

 Curator of the Department of Insects; of 

 Mr. Wm. H. Ashmead to the position of 

 Custodian of Hymenoptera; and Mr. D. W. 

 Coquillett to the position of Custodian of 

 Diptera. All museum custodians are hon- 

 orary ofticers. Mr. M. L. Linell will remain 

 as general assistant to the Honorary Curator. 



The Department is at present m excellent 



