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PSYCHE. 



[M;irch 1891. 



and evidently kept in shape by some gummy 

 secretion applied by the larva. Each pellet 

 was about one-sixteenth inch in diameter 

 and all could be rolled about without crum- 

 bling. When the burrow was finished the 

 larva "backed in" and closed the opening with 

 a thin, transparent, parchment-like door. 

 It took over twenty-four hours to make the 

 burrow and seal it. C. G. Soule. 



Miscellaneous Notes. — Mr. C. P. Gil- 

 lette, formerly entomologist at the Experi- 

 ment Station at Ames, Iowa, has removed to 

 Colorado to take a similar position at Fort 

 Collins. 



A continuation of Mr. J. H. Emerton's 

 New England spiders appears in the last 

 part of the Transactions of the Connecticut 

 Academy. It concerns the Drassidae (33 

 sp.), Agalenidae (n sp.), and Dyi-deridae 

 (2 sp.), with six plates crowded with excel- 

 lent figures; more than half the species are 

 regarded as new. 



Baron Osten Sacken has suggested in the 

 February number of the Entomologists' 

 monthly magazine a new classification of the 

 families of nemocerous Diptera. 



A timely and convenient catalogue of the 

 described transformations of North American 

 Coleoptera by W. Beutenmuller will be 

 found in the January number of the journal 

 of the New York microscopical society. 



L'Abeille, the journal of entomology 

 founded by the late abbe Marseul, and by 

 him carried through twenty-six volumes, is 

 to be continued by the Entomological Soci- 

 ety of Paris, to which he bequeathed it. Mr. 

 L. Bedel has been chosen editor, and the 

 twenty-seventh volume is now in press. The 

 journal, as formerly, will be devoted mainly 

 to Old World Coleoptera, and the frequency 

 of its issue will depend upon subscriptions 

 and sales. 



PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 



CAMBRIDGE ENTOMOLOGICAL CLUB. 



8 June, 1888. — The 139th meeting was held 

 at 156 Brattle St. Mr. J. H. Emerton was 

 chosen chairman. 



Mr. C. W. Woodworth exhibited speci- 



mens of a species of Tvphlocyba found on 

 the rose, to which they are very injurious. 

 He also showed a specimen of a species of 

 Jassidae found on the apple. No jassids 

 have before been found on that tree. 



Mr. S. H. Scudder remarked on the num- 

 ber of subsegments in the larvae of butter- 

 flies. Mr. Scudder has applied this to the 

 position of Libythea, which has been vari- 

 ously placed in the Pierinae, Nymphalidae, 

 and Erycininae. 



Mr. Scudder stated that most of the changes 

 in the larvae of the Lepidoptera, such as 

 moults, etc., occur before ten o'clock in the 

 morning. 



Mr. S. H. Scudder mentioned the finding 

 of the larva of Oeneis semidea which had 

 formed a very slight silken cocoon for pu- 

 pating. It is now a pupa. 



9 November, 18S8. — The 140th meeting of 

 the Club was held at 156 Brattle St. Mr. 

 J. H. Emerton was chosen chairman. 



Mr. J. H. Emerton exhibited some draw- 

 ings of spiders made by himself and Mr. Ed- 

 win Sheppard for Dr. H. C. McCook of 

 Philadelphia. 



Mr. S. H. Scudder showed a collection of 

 butterflies brought together to illustrate mim- 

 icry in this country. Considerable discussion 

 of the subject of protective mimicry followed. 

 Prof. C. H. Fernald spoke of the work of 

 the State experiment stations, established 

 under the new act of Congress appropriating 

 a sum of money to each state for the purpose, 

 and especially of the Hatch Experiment Sta- 

 tion of the Amherst Agricultural College, of 

 which station he is entomologist. 



Mr. S. Henshaw read a paper for Miss 

 Caroline G. Soule on a mode of preserving 

 pupae of Sphingidae through the winter. 



Mr. H. Hinkley spoke of forcing the early 

 emergence of Sphingidae by keeping the pu- 

 pae at room temperature. 



Mr. S. H. Scudder described how Mr. S. 

 L. Elliot kept his pupae through the winter, 

 and mentioned the opportunity offered by a 

 cold storage company in Boston for winter- 

 ing hibernating insects. 



Mr. H. Hinkley described a double cocoon 

 of Attacus promethea. 



