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PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 



C.\MBRIDGE ENTOMOLOGICAL CLUB. 



9 Jan. 1SS5. — The 107th meeting of the 

 club was held at 61 Sacramento St., Cam- 

 bridge, 9 Jan. 1SS5. In the absence of the 

 president, Mr. R. Hayward was chosen chair- 

 man. On account of the lack of a quorum 

 the business of the annual meeting could not 

 be transacted, and consequently the reports 

 of the officers were deferred until the next 

 meeting. 



Mrs. A. K. Dimmock showed specimens of 

 a hymenopterous parasite, probably one of 

 the pteromalids, from the eggs of Smcrin- 

 thus excaecattis; the egg from which the spe- 

 cimens shown had been reared contained 

 over thirty of these minute parasites. [See 

 Psyche, Apr.-June 1SS5, v. 4, p. 2S2.] 



Dr. G: Dimmock exhibited his collection 

 of North American cicindclidae, and made 

 some remarks upon the species and their dis- 

 tribution. 



13 Feb. 1SS5. — The loSth meeting was 

 held at 19 Brattle St., Cambridge, 13 Feb. 

 1SS5, the president, Mr. S : H. Scudder, in the 

 chair. The annual address of the retiring 

 president was delivered. The annual reports 

 of the secretary and of the treasurer were 

 read, and the secretary made a special report 

 upon the condition of the library. [Abstracts 

 of these reports, except the last, are appended 

 to the report of this meeting. The address of 

 the retiring president is published in Psyche, 

 Jan. -Mar. 1SS5, v. 4, p. 245-250.] The presi- 

 dent's address gave rise to much discussion 

 of fossil insects, participated in by all the 

 persons present. 



Dr. G : Dimmock stated that Hctcrodon 

 flatyyhinus, the so-called "hog-nose snake," 

 eats Caloptenus fcmur-rtibrum, fragments of 

 these insects having been found abundant in 

 the excrement of one of these snakes taken 

 in northern Connecticut last fall. The popu- 

 lar name of this species of snake in western 

 New England is ' ' puff-adder " or " flat-headed 

 adder." 



Dr. G : Dimmock showed a box of fine 



