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CAPTURES OF KENISECA TAR- 

 QUINIUS Fabr. 



All example of this butterfly, which is gen- 

 erally regarded as a rarity by collectors. \vas 

 captured at Center, N. Y. , 25 May 1878. 

 liy Mr. O. von Meske — its first observation 

 for this locality. It had been taken in two 

 instances, many 3'ears ago, by Mr. Charles 

 H. Peck, at Bath, near Albany, and had also 

 been observed by him in Sandlake, N. Y. , 

 and Elizabethtown. N.Y.. flying about bushes 

 of alder {Alnns serrulata Ait.). Its appear- 

 ance so early in the season seems to indi- 

 cate two broods of the species — the second 

 occurring, in the state of New York, during 

 the first half of August, On the ist day of 

 August (1S77) while riding at a brisk paca 

 through the Raven Pass in Essex County, 

 N, Y., en route to the Adirondack Moun- 

 tains, a fresh example of the species was 

 swept in my net, fortunately in hand, by 

 Mr, Verplanck Colvin, from the back of one 

 of the horses. This was but the third ex- 

 ample that had come into my possession, 

 and the first to display the delicate tracery 

 of its under-wings in all its beauty. Subse- 

 quentlw and during the two weeks following. 



several specimens (perhaps a dozen) were 

 taken by Mr. E. L. Graef. of Brooklyn. L. I., 

 at Beede's, head of Keene Valley. They 

 were fluttering about the alders, upon which 

 probably their eggs are deposited and their 

 larvae feed. The locality would seem to be 

 a particularly fiivorable one for them. The 

 elevation of Beede's above tide water, as 

 obtained from Mr, Colvin, superintendent of 

 the Adirondack Survey, is 1240 feet [37S M.]. 

 —7. A. Lilltlicr. 



PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIE.S, 

 Entomological Society of London. 



17 Jan, 1883. — It was announced that the 

 prize of £50, offered by Lord Walsingham, 

 for the best essay on Sclerostoma syiig-itmiis, 

 had been awarded to Dr Megnin, of Paris 

 (two competitors) ; no essay regarding 

 Sfro/igvliis pt'rg'ydcilis had been received. 



The following officers were elected : — Pres- 

 ident, J. W. Dunning; Treasurer, E. Saun- 

 ders: Secretaries, E. A. Fitch and W. F. 

 Kirby; Librarian, F. Grut. 



5 Feb. 1SS3. — Mr. Billups exhibited an 

 exotic orthopterous insect of the family 

 lociistiiiae, found living in a hot-house at 

 Lee ; it was strongly carnivorous in its habits. 



Mr. Peringuey communicated notes on the 

 habits of several South African species of 

 Pii/tssns. and especially in connection with 

 their powers of crepitating, and carnivorous 

 propensities, 



7 March 18S3, — Dr. Sharp exhibited a 

 dissection of the prosternum of an Elater, 

 and called attention to the peculiar condition 

 of the prothoracic stigma, which was closed 

 by a perfect trap-door. He thought this 

 arrangement might be useful in excluding 

 parasites when the beetle was on its back, 

 after the manner of its kind. 



2 May 18S3. — This being the 50th anniver- 

 sary of the foundation of the society, the 

 President read a historical sketch, in which 

 he succinctly embodied all points of interest 

 concerning its career, and the benefits it had 



