February 189S.] 



PSYCHE. 



butterflies in ten days, and the Papilios takes three weeks, 

 in a fortnight. Troides (Ornithoptera) nat. hist, soc, X, 1-3) 



179 

 (Journ. Bomb. 



THE ACRIDIAN SUBFAMILY MASTA- 

 CINAE IN THE UNITED STATES. 



The American Mastacinae hitherto known 

 are the genera Mastax and Masyntes, which 

 have been reported only from South America 

 and the West Indies. 



In liis collections on the Pacific coast last 

 summer Mr. A. P. Morse obtained two speci- 

 mens of an apterous and possibly immature 

 Mastacid, one at Cahon Pass in southern 

 California on July 19, the other on Mt. Wil- 

 son, Altadena, near Los Angeles, on July 27. 

 They belong to a new generic type, most 

 nearly allied to Masyntes Karsch but differ- 

 ing from it by having a more appressed head 

 with less convex vertex, the fastigium prom- 

 inent as in Masyntes but broadly convex 

 instead of sulcate or laterally marginate, 

 apically broadly rounded and not emarginate, 

 the lateral carinae of the metazona much less 

 pronounced, the posterior angle of the lateral 

 lobes rectangulate and the spines of the hind 

 tibiae of uniform length. The body is cin- 

 ereous with a broad black median stripe on 

 the vertex, and on the upper half of the 

 lateral lobes of the pronotum, continued on 

 the abdomen; the fore and middle legs are 

 ruddy. The length of the body and of the 

 hind femora is only 9 mm. The genus may 

 be called Morsen and the species californka. 

 SaTtiuel H. Sciidder. 



EARLY STAGES OF TROPICAL 

 BUTTERFLIES. 



In another place in this number we have 

 printed an extract from a paper by Messrs. 

 Davidson, Bell and Aitken, on Bombay but- 

 terflies. This paper which appears in vol- 



umes -x and xi of the Bombay journal is one 

 of the most important contributions to our 

 knowledge of the early stages of tropical 

 butterflies that have appeared in recent 

 years. It is accompanied by eight colored 

 plates of caterpillars and chrysalids and is 

 in continuation of a paper by two of the 

 number in the same journal eight years ago, 

 where six similar colored plates are given 

 and notes of no less than 94 species which 

 they had themselves reared. The present 

 paper includes a list of the butterflies of the 

 district, which they enumerate as 233 species 

 and of these notes are given or referred to of 

 the earlier stages of all but 36. This is a 

 remarkable showing. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE CLUB. 



14 January, i8gS. The igSth regular and 

 2ist annual meeting of the Club was held at 

 156 Brattle St., Mr. A. P. Morse in the chair. 



Reports from the several officers were re- 

 ceived and the following persons elected 

 for the ensuing year: — President, T. E. 

 Bean ; secretary, Roland Hayward ; treasurer,. 

 Samuel Henshaw; librarian, Samuel H- 

 Scudder; members at large of the executive 

 committee, J. W. Folsom and S. H. Scudder. 



The address of the retiring president. Dr. 

 H. G. Dyar, on the larvae of the Australian 

 Eucleidae, was read by proxy. It is given 

 elsewhere in this number. 



Mr. R. Hayward showed a female speci- 

 men of Zarliipis integrtfennis sent him re- 

 cently by Mr. L. E. Ricksecker of Santa 

 Rosa, Cal. Mr. Ricksecker stated in a letter 

 that he had obtained three females, from 

 which he procured eggs. A few larvae were 

 obtained, but they died soon after hatching. 



