PSrCHE. 



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EDWARDS' BUTTERFLIES N. A. 



The plates of the concluding part of 

 Edwards' great work on North American 

 butterflies, are entirely devoted to species of 

 Chionobas, all containing abundant illustra- 

 tions of the early stages. In the volume now 

 concluded, moreover, Edwards has figured 

 with a wealth of illustrations the complete or 

 almost complete life-histories of no less than 

 a dozen species of this boreal genus, which 

 would seem, from the out of the wav places 

 one must reach to find the insect at all, to be 

 the most difficult genus of our butterflies to 

 treat in this way. It is a monument to the 

 author's energy and skill. Numerous sup- 

 pleiueniary notes on various butterflies are 

 added to this concluding Part, besides an in- 

 dex to the three quarto volumes now issued. 

 We can but congratulate the author on the 

 handsome completion of his nearly thirty 

 years work, but we wish they Avere more to 

 come. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE CLUB. 



II December, 1S96. — The 145th meeting 

 was held at Mr. S. Henshaw's. Mercer Circle, 

 Cambridge, Mr. J. W. Folsom in the chair; 

 Mr. W. L. W. Field was chosen secretary 

 pro tempore. 



Mr. S. Henshaw exhibited a specimen of 

 a tropical cockroach (Hormetica sp.), cap- 

 tured in Belmont, Mass. ; it is supposed to 

 have been brought north in a bunch of 

 bananas. 



Mr. W. L. W. Field told of the capture of 

 a male and female of I^ibythea bachmnni in 

 Milton, Mass., on July 17 and Aug. 9, respec- 

 tively, by Mr. C. O. Zerrahn ; and of the cap- 

 ture of a single battered male of Meganos- 

 toma caesonia in Alstead, N. H. on July 25, 

 1896 by Mr. James A. Field. 



Mr. J. W. Folsom exhibited a collection of 

 miscellaneous specimens, mostly spiders and 

 cochroaches, the result of a visit to a banana 

 vessel now discharging her cargo in Boston. 



8 January, 1897. — The 196th regular and 

 20th annual meeting (since incorporation) 

 was held at 156 Brattle St., Mr. A. P. Morse 

 in the Chair. 



The several annual reports were read. 



The following officers were elected : Presi- 

 dent, H. G. Dyar of New York; Secretary, 

 Roland Hayward; Treasurer, Samuel Hen- 

 shaw; Librarian, Samuel H. Scudder; Exe- 

 cutive Committee at large, A. P. Morse and 

 S. H. Scudder. 



The annual address of the retiring Presi- 

 dent, H. .S. Pratt, on Imaginal Discs in 

 Insects, was read by S. H. Scudder. (Printed 

 in Psyche for February). 



The Treasurer and Secretary were ap- 

 pointed a committee to revise the list of 

 Active Members of the Club. 



Mr. A. G. Mayer read a paper on a new 

 hypothesis of seasonal dimorphism in Lepi- 

 doptera, which was discussed by Messrs. 

 Scudder, Morse and Folsom, and will appear 

 in full in Psyche. 



Mr. S. H. Scudder stated that during a 

 few days collecting on Mt. Desert Isl., Me., 

 in the latter part of August, he only came 

 across 13 different kinds of Orthoptera and 

 none of them were very abundant. On the 

 top of one of the highest mountains, Mt. 

 Sargent (about I40o')> Melaiioplus tnanciis 

 and M. faiciii/iis were found, which did not 

 occur below, but M. allcniisviaf, common and 

 .1/. femur-riibriim not observed, while at low 

 levels M. a/hinis was scarce and M. femiir- 

 nihnim common. Besides the latter species, 

 the only common forms at the lower levels 

 were Nemobiiis fasciatus, Camnula pella- 

 cida, Circotettix verrucula/iis, Stenobothrus 

 curtipcufiis, Oyphula maculipeutiis^ and Me- 

 lauopliis femoraius. Hardly a single locus- 

 tarian was seen and very few indeed heard. 

 The other species noted were Sciidderia pis- 

 tilla/a, A/o>to/e//:x ci-is/atiis and Chortophaga 

 liridi/asciala. Only 7 species of butter- 

 flies were seen and insects of all sorts were 

 exceptionally scarce. 



Mr. Scudder also stated that he had re- 

 ceived from Prof. C. M. Weed the Orthoptera 

 he collected in Bermuda on a recent visit. 

 There were but six species; Labidura ripa- 

 rian Periplajteia aiistralasiae^ Leucophaea 

 !-urina7nensis^ Orphula olivacea^ Conocepha- 

 lus fiisco-f/ria/iia and a species of Gryllus 

 apparently new. 



