1907] 
PROCEEDIXaS OF THE CLUB 
03 
PUOCEEDINfJS OE THE CLUB. 
The 203(1 meeting (also the .\nniial Me('ting) of the Cainhridge Entomological 
Chil) was held in the rootns of tin' .\|i|)alaehian Mountain Chih on 'I'uesdav, .lannarv 
15, l!l()7, at 7.45 e. m., with President Field in the chair and twelve ineinhers |>n'.sent. 
< )fheers for l()t)7 were elected as follows; II. II. Xeweomh, President; !•’. ('. 
P,( (wditch, Treasnrer; ('. A. Frost, Secretary; A. ('. Sampson and L. W. Swett, 
ineinhers at large of E.xeeiitive ('oinmittee. 
After the election of officers, the retiring President gave a very interesting address 
on the Mating of Satnrniid Moths. 'Phe priority in einergenee of the male imago 
was well illustrated by curves plotted from records of various s|)eeies. 
Mr. Frank A. Bates told of his observations on tin* Japanese moth, Ciiidorainixt 
jhn'raccnx, recently fonnd abundantly in parts of Dorchester. 
Meeting adjourned at the usual hour. 
The 2()4th regular iiK'eting was held in the rooms of the A])])alaehian Monntain 
Chib on 'Piiesday, Eebrnary 19, 1907, with President Newcomb in the chair and 
twelve members jiresent. The President ]>resented to the Chib a gavel made from 
the stair-railing of Eanenil Hall, the wood being over two himdreil years old .... 
drawing of an abnormal spider, sent in by iUr. Emerton, was shown. The 
S]ieeinien was taken at Long Island, Portland, Maine, and was a female I > ni.ts'iin 
sarrrtfux with one male palpus. 
'Phe topic annoimeed for discussion. Bare In.seets of Eastern iMassaehn.setts, 
was next taken uj) by President Newcomb who exhibited s])eeimens of Pierix proto- 
dtcr, Lrpisc.iia fiavojaxciaia, Cithcronia srpiilcmiis', Terms lisa, and as his rarest 
capture, Peimphila orohi, a southern skipper not reeordi'd north of southern Penn- 
sylvania. He took this in.seet in iMilton in a secluded meadow not accessible to 
trafiie. Mr. Sampson remarked that he had taken .seven specimens of Terias lisa 
in Sharon in one season. 
Mr. Uogers exhibited Pannias ash/lus, ( 'oiisemila anadaata, Kutlii/atira pudens, 
Feralia jacasa, llomaplera hnicsipnala, Pliisia hallara, Zrazrra pprina, Fa/>loiela 
claadia, and a bred s))ecimen of Laertias plnleiiar, all from iMedford, Ma.ss. Zeazrra 
pprina was also reported from Jamaica Plain and Dorchester by Mr. Low and Mr. 
Lucas res]ieetively. Mr. Frost rejiorted the capture of a male of the same species 
in Medford on July 1, 1903, at light. 
]\[r. E. J. Smith sent in a long list of rare Lepido|)tera which he had ca])tured 
in Natick. 
