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PSYCHE. 



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end, far apart from each other, are two small 

 round orifices. Margin minutely beaded with 

 brown. The pupa has the usual oval form, 

 and is hardly over imm. long, minutely 

 transversely ribbed down the middle of the 

 back ; with twelve broad ribbon-like rays of 

 glassy secretion, not much shorter than itself. 

 These rays are of a bright lemon yellow, 

 except at their ends, which are white. Lar- 

 val skin attached to dorsum of pupa. 



Hab. — Frontera, Tabasco, Mexico, on 

 leaves of a tree having small white flowers. 

 (Town send.) Div. Ent. 7669. Allied to 

 A. stellata. The insect looks like a coccid 

 of the genus Vinsonia. 



Mesilla Park, N. M. 

 April T, 1S9S. 



PACKARD'S NEW MANUAL. 



Dr. P.\ckard's Guide to the study of in- 

 sects has passed through many editions and 

 has been for a long period the most successful 

 and serviceable manual the American ento- 

 mologist has had ; the classification of insects 

 was its foundation. The learned author now 

 comes forward with a Text book,* constructed 

 on a totally different basis; there is scarcely 

 a word of classification in it, but only the 

 facts forming the basis of classification : the 

 external and internal structure, the embry- 

 ology, and the metamorphic changes; that 

 is, it is morphologic instead of taxonomic, 

 to serve the present needs. It is the book 

 for the day and is sure to command atten- 

 tion and come into general use. Numerous 

 special bibliographies scattered throughout 

 the book will prove of great service; they 

 should, however, have been listed in the 

 table of contents or separately, and the 

 index is not so full as one could wish. There 



• A. text-book of entomology', including the anatomy, 

 physiology, embryology and metamorphoses of insects, for 

 use in agricultural and technical schools and colleges, as 

 well as by the working entomologist; by A. S. Packard. 

 17 + 729 PP-. 654 figs. New York. The Macmillan Co. 

 1898. $4.50. 



is too little room in our small journal for the 

 fuller notice it deserves, but we strongly 

 advise its purchase by every entomologist, 

 as a marvellous storehouse of facts, where 

 the latest researches find a place. 



JOSEPH ALBERT LINTNER. 



A DISPATCH from Rome, Italy, announcing 

 the death of the state entomologist of New 

 York, was published in the newspapers on the 

 very day we received his twelfth Report on 

 the insects of New York, a volume of more 

 than a hundred and fifty pages, and, like all 

 of his papers, filled with the proof of pains- 

 taking conscientious labor. Let us hope 

 his successor will prove as diligent and 

 faithful. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE CLUB. 



S April, 189S. The 201st meeting of the 

 club was held at 156 Brattle St., the President 

 in the chair; Mr. J. W. Folsom was chosen 

 secretary pro tem. 



Mr. S. H. Scudder exhibited the North 

 American species of Scudderiae and briefly 

 summarized the result of his recent studies 

 upon that group. Thirteen species are 

 known, of which one necessitates a new 

 genus, Platylyra. All the eleven species of 

 Scudderia are closely similar to each other, 

 with a few striking exceptions, and fall into 

 four groups, based especially upon the struc- 

 ture of the male genitalia, of which drawings 

 were shoAvn. The species septentrionalis and 

 forcipata are remarkably peculiar in respect 

 to their accessory genital organs. Five 

 species occur in New England, of which 

 furcata is found across the continent, and 

 texensis ranges as far west as Utah. 



Mr. J. W. Folsom said that nothing had 

 hitherto been published concerning the 

 Collembola of Japan, but showed specimens 

 and figures of three new species from Tokyo 



