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(Pract. entom.. v. 2, p. 40) cases coristnicted 

 bv Mvi mica limohtta? Sav over an aphis on 

 Coriiiis s/oliiiii/frii, and bv a Foimica over 

 an aphis on Siilix. A case of" the same kind 

 on a species of alder is recorded bv Mr. Wni. 

 Couper as occurring near Toronto, in Canada. 

 Lubbock (Scientific lectures, p. 71) states 

 that sometimes the ants even build covered 

 wavs up to and over the aphides, which, 

 moreover, they protect from the attacks of 

 other insects.'" 



Mr. J : G. Jack stated that he had seen 

 Vanessa antiopa, with unrolled proboscis, 

 apparently sucking the sweet excretion about 

 aphides, and had noticed similar actions in 

 Limcnilis dissif'iis and L. arlhemh. 



Mr. A. F. Focrste communicated (by Mr. 

 W : Trelease and the Secretary) a note con- 

 cerning the habits of Alans ociiluliis. This 

 note chiefly described the habit of feigning 

 death and the reluctancy to spring in this 

 species of elateridae. Mr. G : Dimmock 

 said he had noticed that A. ocii/u/iis disliked 

 to spring. 



Mr. S: II. Sciuider spoke of some speci- 

 mens of lepidoptera, in ditVerent stages. 

 which were for sale by Dr. W : Wittfeld. of 

 Georgiana. Brevard Co., Fla. 



Mr. S: n. Scudder said, in reply to a 

 question, that all Aespeiidae spin light co- 

 coons, and that a few other butterflies allied 

 to the hesperidae spin delicate cocoons. 

 From these cocoon-spinning forms there is a 

 gradual transition through forms which hang 

 their pupae with a loop to forms which sus- 

 pend their pupae by the tip of the abdomen 

 only. 



9 Feb. 1SS3. — -The yoth meeting was held 

 at 19 Brattle Square, Cambridge, 9 Feb. 1SS3. 

 In the absence of the President Mr. S: H. 

 Scudder was chosen chairman. Six persons 

 (five of whom were members) were present. 



The Secretary read a letter from Mr. S : 

 Henshaw, who regretted that he was not 

 able to accept the oflice of Treasurer to which 

 he had been elected at the last meeting. [Mr. 

 B: P. Mann will remaim acting Treasurer, 

 therefore, until a new election is held.] 



A proposition to hold a special meeting of 

 the Club at Minneapolis. Minn., on the dav 



preceding the meeting of Ihe American Asso- 

 ciation for the .Advancement of Science, with 

 other propositions in relation to the proposed 

 meeting, was referred to the Executive Com- 

 mittee with full power to act, but with the 

 recommendation that the Committee should 

 correspond with Mr. J. A. Lintner. who has 

 already been asked to call a meeting of ento- 

 mologists at that time and place, so that 

 there might be no interference with the 

 meeting to be called by him. 



Mr. Mann communicated (through the 

 Secretary) some notes in regard to the ar- 

 rangements necessary to be made for the 

 issue of volume 4 of Psyche, and further 

 remarks were made by the Secretary upon 

 the saiue subject. 



The following persons were elected to ac- 

 tive membership: August F. Foerste.' of 

 Dayton, Ohio; C: Diehl Zimmerman, of 

 Builalo, N. Y. : Capt. T.J. Mathews, of Gray- 

 ville. III. ; Thoodor Pergande. of Washing- 

 Ion. D. C. 



Mr. G: Dirimock called attention to a 

 paper by Dr. Hermann Henking, entitled. 

 '• Beitriige zur Anatomic. Entwieklungs- 

 geschichte and Biologic \o\\ Xrombiditnn 

 fulig!nosum\\i.\w\." (Zeitschrift f. wissensch. 

 Zool.. iSSj, v. ,i7, p. 553-663, pi. 34-36), out- 

 lining briefly the scope of the paper, and 

 especially noticing a method of coloration 

 by an alcoholic borax-carmine solution, as 

 described by Dr. Henking. 



Mr. S: H. Scudder exhibited some plates 

 from a paper on fossil neuroptera now in 

 preparation, and a colored plate to illustrate 

 the life-history of a species of lielhiia. (he 

 pine-moth of Nantucket. 



Mr. Roland Thaxter called attention to a 

 species of Nonagi-ia which he had studied. 

 The larva bores in rushes from which it 

 probably emerges as pupa. The question of 

 how the egg survives the winter in the flood- 

 ed and frozen marshes brought out some 

 discussion. 



Mr. S: II. Scudder exhibited a large num- 

 ber of figures of fossil coleoptera from Flor- 

 issant. Col. 



