202 



PSYCHE. 



(April i8g8. 



tipped with jellow, some distance within the 

 margin of the scale. 



$. Brown, of the general type of the 

 genus. Five groups of circumgenital glands; 

 caudolaterals of 16 to iS, cephalolaterals 

 about 20, median seven. Plates and lobes 

 much as in P. parlatorioides; the two pro- 

 jections between the median lobes are longer 

 than the lobes, and subparallel; the median 

 lobes are rounded at the ends, and their 

 sloping sides if produced to a point would 

 form about a right angle, the subbasal 

 notches of parlatorioides are wanting; the 

 other lobes etc., correspond closely with 

 tliose of parlatorioides. The sides of the 

 segments before the hindmost portion are 

 curiously produced, the outlines of the pro- 

 duced portions rather resembling that of a 

 human nose. 



Hab. — On leaves of a forest tree, Campi- 

 nas, Brazil, Jan., 1S9S. Collected by Dr. 

 Fritz Noack, phytopathologist of the Insti- 

 tuto Agronomico do Estado de S. Paulo. It 

 is a distinct species, easily recognized by 

 the scale. The exuviae are sometimes quite 

 green, and the scale may be snow white 

 except in the centre. The scales mostly 

 occur along the midrib on the under side of 

 the leaf. 



Mytilaspis perlonga, n. sp. — ? scale 

 long and narrow, 3 1-2 mm. long, hardly i 

 mm. wide, convex, straight, very pale 

 ochreous, e.vuviae shiuing apricot color, 

 with a rather coppery tint, first skin ex- 

 posed, second covered. $ scale similar but 

 much smaller. 



$. Orange brown; median lobes fairly 

 large but not much produced, their outline 

 about that of a half-circle, the interval be- 

 tween them about as wide as the diameter of 

 one; second lobes very broad and low; third 

 a little more elevated than the second, and 

 divided into two or three lobules; fourth 

 replaced by some irregular serration of the 

 margin. The true spines are rather small, 

 and quite ordinary; but the spine-like gland- 

 hairs are extremely large, quite stout, ex- 



tending far beyond the lobes, and more or 

 less beset with spinules at the end. There 

 is one of these gland-hairs at the inner base 

 of each median lobe, one (only one) in the 

 first interlobular interval, one also in the 

 second, and one in the third interlobular in- 

 tervals, and one some distance be3ond upon 

 the margin. Anal orifice level with the 

 hinder portion of the caudolateral group 

 of glands. Five groups of circumgenital 

 glands, median of 7, caphalolaterals 14, cau- 

 dolaterals 14 or less. Rows of numerous 

 transversely elongate dorsal glands. An- 

 tennae represented by rounded tubercles, 

 emitting numerous bristles. The females 

 contain embryos with well-formed legs and 

 antennae. 



Hab. — Campinas, Brazil, very numerous 

 on the bark of small twigs of Baccharis, Jan., 

 189S. (Dr. F. Noack.) Nearly all of the 

 specimens are infested b^' a chalcidid para- 

 site. JSt. perl 0)1 ga is a distinct species, easi- 

 est distingushed by the very large gland- 

 hairs, of which there is but one in the first 

 interlobular interval. There area few Lecan- 

 itim baccharidis on the same twigs. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE CLUB. 



II March, 1898. The 200th meeting of the 

 club was held at 156 Brattle St., Mr. J. \V. 

 Folsom in the chair. 



Mr. A. P. Morse of Wellesley, Mass., was 

 elected president for 1S9S. 



Mr. W. F. Fiske of Durham, N. H., was 

 elected a member. 



Mr. A. G. Mayer said that during a stay in 

 the Figi Islands from November 6 to Janu- 

 ary 13, he devoted some time to collecting 

 insects. Among Lepidoptera one finds sev- 

 eral species of Euploeans that seem to be 

 identical with Australian forms. There is 

 one Papilio that is evidently a Qiieensland 

 species, and also a Terias that is extremely 

 common. It is probable that all of these 

 butterflies existed upon the islands before 

 the advent of white men. 



