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PsrcHE. 



[M;iy — June 1&S,J. 



Duncan I'lilnam, who was foremost among 

 the members of that society in securing for 

 it a scientific standing as a publishing society. 

 Besides the proceedings of the meeting held 

 in Mr. Putnam's memory, the letters sent to 

 his bereaved i-ehitives by his scientific associ- 

 ates, and the resolutions passed by several 

 scientific societies upon hearing of his death, 

 Prof. Herbert Osborn, with the assistance of 

 Dr. H. A. Hagen and others, has prepared 

 for publication the notes upon and figures of 

 Americon solpiigidac, which Mr. Putnam 

 had made, and which now form an interest- 

 ing contribution to the study of a heretofore 

 neglected family' of American arthropoda. 

 To this paper is added a bibliography of the 

 solpiigidae, complied from Mr. Putnam's 

 by Miss Julia E. Sanders. This bibliography 

 comprises 224 titles, with notes, and is ar- 

 ranged in chronological order. 



G: D. 

 Cambridge, Mass., 14 April 1S83. 



A paper with the title RoxHirdfzati liipok 

 (Journal of entomology) has lately made its 

 appearance in Pesth, Hungary. It is, how- 

 ever, a mistake to bury interesting entomo- 

 logical matter in pages printed in a language 

 which few outside of Hungary can read. 



G: D. 



PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 

 Cambridge Entomologic.vl Cluh. 



9 March 1S83. — The 91st meeting of the 

 Club was held at 19 Brattle Square. Cam- 

 bridge, 9 March 1SS3, at S p. m. In the ab- 

 sence of the President, Mr. S; Henshaw was 

 chosen Chairman. Seven persons (five of 

 whom were members) were present. 



Tlie additions to the library of the Club 

 were announced by the Librarian. 



Mr. G: Dimmock read a paper on "The 

 scales of coleoptera," including in the paper 

 observations in regard to the scales of other 

 insects. Microscopical preparations and fig- 



ures of many tonus of scales were show'n. 

 [The paper is now appearing with ilhistra- 

 tions, in Psyche.] 



Mr. S: H. Scudder exhibited a figure, by 

 Brongniart, of a very large fossil walking- 

 stick, described under the name of Tilano- 

 phasnia fayoU. 



Mr. S : H. Scudder showed a few photo- 

 graphs of regions in Colorado where fossil 

 insects had been found. 



LiNNEAN Society of London. 



6 Feb. 1SS3. ... A paper was read "On the 

 palling of Tegenaria guyonii and descrip- 

 tion of certain organs in the male abdominal 

 sexual region," by J. Maule Campbell. Two 

 cases were related in which during confine- 

 ment the males killed the females after union 

 and an instance was also given of an attempt 

 to impregnate an immature female which 

 was also destroyed by the male. In neither 

 case could hunger have been the cause of the 

 attack. The writer explained these occur- 

 rences and also the accounts of females de- 

 stroying males after union on the ground 

 "That those instincts which are habitually 

 practised throughout the far greater portion 

 of the life of the species, and on which its 

 existence is dependent would scarcely be sus- 

 pended for a longer period than necessary 

 for the sexual union." Some of the habits 

 of spiders and especially of this species were 

 mentioned as bearing on these sexual con- 

 flicts, and the specific benefits which would 

 arise from them were referred to. The paper 

 concluded by a note on some glands situated 

 on the convexity of the abdominal sexual 

 region. The ducts, considerably convoluted, 

 open through transparent tubular spines 

 which are arranged transversely to the axis 

 of the body of the spider. These organs are 

 supposed by Mr. Campbell to be a kind of 

 spinning organ. Two papilla-like processes 

 below the opening of the genital sinus were 

 also described. — Zool. ainriger, 5 March 

 1S83, jahrg. 6, p. 127-128. 



