September 1H96.] 



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other than tliose due to pigment were de- 

 veloped earlier. 



Mr. S. H. Scudder called attention to an 

 article in the Boll. See. Rom. Stud. zool. on 

 the rearing of Sarcop/iagiis iijfiiii-- from the 

 top of the head of a child. 



He also read a paper by Mr. H. F. Wick- 

 ham on niyrmecophilous Coleoptera, and 

 exhibited a collection of Satyrid larvae. 



Mr. J. W. Folsom showed a copy of a new- 

 journal of entomology in Japanese, published 

 at Tokio; and also read some notes on the 

 oviposition of two species of Thanaos. ex- 

 hibiting specimens, which led to a discus- 

 sion on the food plants of our species of 

 Thanaos. 



Prof. C. M. Weed remarked briefly on the 

 insects found by him in a recent trip to Ber- 

 muda. He found few Coleoptera. Hyme- 

 noptera and Diptera were most abundant, 

 especially the smaller species. Hemiptera 

 were rather numerous. Among the Lepid- 

 optera. yunonia coenia and Aiio^in flexippua 



were the only butterflies commonly abroad, 

 and several sphingids were seen. Orthop- 

 tera were rather scarce, cockroaches excepted. 

 A large West Indian centipede and some 

 other myriapods were abundant and spiders 

 were numerrnis. 



April 9, 1896. The 191st meeting was held 

 at 156 Brattle St., Mr. A. P. Morse in the 

 chair. Mr. J. W. Folsom was chosen secre- 

 tary pro tem. 



The secretary was directed to send a vote 

 of thanks to Dr. John HamiIton*'for his gift 

 ot two hound volumes of his papers on Cole- 

 optera. 



Mr. S. H. .Scudder exhibited the eggs of 

 Neopha^ia mennpia laid in a row on a pine 

 needle in July, 1S95 and now about to hatch. 

 They were obtained by Mr. James Fletcher 

 in British Columbia. 



Mr. J. W. Folsom made some extended 

 remarks upon Thvsanura he had recently 

 found and which were to be published in 

 Psyche and the Canadian entomologist. 



just Published, by Henry Holt & Co., New York. 



Scudder's Brief Guide to the Com- 

 moner Butterflies. 



By Sa.viuei. H. Scuddek. xi + 206 pp. 



i2nio. $1.25. 



An introduction, for the young student, to 

 the names and something of the relationship 

 and lives of our commoner butterflies. The 

 author has selected for treatment the butter- 

 flies, less than one hundred in number, which 

 would be almost siu'ely met with by an in- 

 dustrious collector in a course of a year's or 

 two year's work in our Northern States east 

 of the Great Plains, and in Canada. While 

 all the apparatus necessary to identify these 

 butterflies, in their earlier as well as perfect 

 stage, is supplied, it is far from the author's 

 purpose to treat them as if they were so many 

 mere postage-stamps to be classified and ar- 

 ranged in a cabinet. He has accordingly 

 added to the descriptions of the different spe- 

 cies, their most obvious stages, some of the 

 curious facts concerning their periodicity and 

 their habits of life. 



Scudder's The Life of a Butterfly. 

 A Chapter in Natural History for 

 the General Reader. 



By Sa.muki. H. Scudder. 186 pp. i6mo. 

 $1.00. 



In this book the author has tried to present 

 in untechnical language the story of the life 

 of one of our most conspicuous American 

 butterflies. At the same tiine, by introduc- 

 ing into the account of its anatomy, devel- 

 opment, distribution, enemies, and seasonal 

 changes some comparisons with the more or 

 less dissimilar structure and life of other but- 

 terflies, and particularly of our luitive forms, 

 he has endeavored to give, in some fashion 

 and in brief space, a general account of the 

 lives of the whole tribe. By using a single 

 butterfly as a special text, one may discourse 

 at pleasure of many: and in the limiled field 

 which our native butterflies cover, this meth- 

 od has a certain advantage from its simplicity 

 and directness. 



