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procession going from field to field singing 

 and praying that rain might fall so that the 

 corn and beans might grow and that the grass 

 might revive so tliat the grasshoppers would 

 be diverted from the crops. A picture of a 

 saint was carried at the head of the proces- 

 sion, which was composed entirely of fe- 

 males; the males remained in the village to 

 have games of ' pitch and toss.' " 



He further stated that Miss Katherine \V. 

 Huston had reported to him the capture of 

 one specimen and the sight of another of 

 Jitiionia coenia at Biistol, Me., during the 

 latter part of last July ; there is only one rec- 

 ord of a capture further north than this. He 

 also read a letter from Mr. \V. T. Bell of 

 Franklin, Penn., giving the naines of certain 

 butterflies taken there the past year for the 

 first time. These were given by Mr. Bell as 

 Thecla henrici, T. nifkon, T. irus, var. nrface. 

 Lib. bachmajiii, Colias coesonia, Terias 

 >iicif>pe, and Papilio ajax, var. telatiiotiides 

 A more remarkable case of Libythaea bach- 

 maiiii was one seen close at hand by Mr. F. 

 H. Sprague in Wollaston, June 21, 1896; it 

 was. however, not captured ; a similar instance 

 was recorded in the current volume of Psyche. 



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Messrs. Henshaw and Folsom remarked 

 upon the unhealthy condition of tlie leaves 

 of maple trees in this vicinitj' during the early 

 summer, a condition wide spread and notice- 



able. The leaves turned brown and withered 

 on certain trees only or on certain parts of 

 trees froin no very evident cause. This phe- 

 nomenon was attributed to loss of water from 

 the punctures of plant lice, which had been 

 unusually abundant antecedent to the discol- 

 oration. The remarkably moist season of 

 1S97 is a probable explanation of the abun- 

 dance of Aphididae and, correlated with this, 

 Coccinellidae were also very numerous, in- 

 cluding the large Aiiatis ij-pn/ic/ata of the 

 maple. It will be advisable, in future years, 

 to spray maple trees just as soon as plant-lice 

 appear upon them in considerable numbers, 

 without waiting until their injuries are seen, 

 because the aphides will then have disap- 

 peared. 



Mr. Folsom made some remarks upon the 

 anatomy of CoUembola and the difficulties 

 attending the dissection of these insects. 



Mr. Scudder stated that Mr. J. A. Lintner 

 had sent him for determination a specimen 

 of the tropical cockroach, Nyctobora holoser- 

 icea, which had flown into a house in Albany, 

 N. Y., in September; it was probably import- 

 ed with bananas. He also exhibited specimens 

 of the large destructive locust of Argentina, 

 Schhtocerca faratiensis, sometimes con- 

 founded with 5. peregi-ina, which had been 

 sent him by Prof. Lawrence Bruner of Ne- 

 braska, now engaged in studying its natural 

 history in the province of Santa Fe. 



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