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flora, Satynis meadii and Chio/iobcts ckryxus, 

 all of them living from five hundred to a 

 thousand or two miles from Mr. Edwards's 

 home, where they were bred and studied. 

 This shows at once the opportunities to be 

 overtaken by any zealous student, and ren- 

 ders possible thorough acquaintance with our 

 entire fauna. Mr. Edwards hints here and 

 there at some of the difficulties of the work, 

 to have overcome which, even partially, in 

 the case of such distant and secluded insects 

 as this Satyrus and this Chionobas, is a high 

 merit indeed ! Apatura flora is an inhabi- 

 tant of our extreme southern border; Satyrus 

 meadii 'lives at moderate altitudes in restricted 

 localities in Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona 

 and Montana; and Chionobas ckryxus at 

 higher elevations in the Rocky Mts. from 

 Colorado to British America and, if with Mr- 

 Edwards we include Calais in the species' 

 also across the continent in the higher north. 

 In all three species the caterpillars hibernate 

 in early life, but the history of the species as 

 given here presents nothing of unusual inter- 

 est and closely resembles that of their nearest 

 allies. Eighty-one figures, most of them col- 

 ored and many much magnified, are given on 

 the three plates. 



Fifth report of the U. S. entomologi- 

 cal commission. — Dr. Packard's treatise on 

 forest insects, only just issued though com- 

 pleted over three year's ago, closes the work 

 of the U. S. entomological commission. It 

 is based on a former " bulletin " of the com- 

 mission, but is vastly enlarged and abounds 

 in illustrations many of which, unfortunately, 

 conform to the standard of those published 

 years ago by the agricultural department, 

 but are much inferior to those now published 

 by its division of entomology. One can 

 quickly see by a glance through the volume 

 of more than gco pages, 40 plates and 300 

 cuts in the text that it is a veritable store 

 house of facts and observations, and is 

 worked out in the same way as the previ- 

 ous bulletin. It has the faults of many gov- 

 ernment publications that the material is too 



little sifted and digested, but there can be no 

 doubt of its great service. A systematic 

 index of the insects is sadly needed; the 

 very plan of the book particularly requires it. 



Personal Notes. — Mr. William Beuten- 

 miiller has recently been appointed curator 

 of the department of entomology in the Am- 

 erican museum of natural history in Central 

 Park, New York City. 



Mr. C. H. Tyler Townsend has just taken 

 the post of entomologist at the agricultural 

 experiment station at Las Cruces, New Mex- 

 ico. 



PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 



CAMBRIDGE ENTOMOLOGICAL CLUB. 



S February, 1S89. — The 143d meeting was 

 held at 156 Brattle St., the president in the 

 chair. 



Mr. G. Dimmock read part of a letter from 

 Mrs. C. M. Winston describing the resem- 

 blance of some "walking-sticks" to the plants 

 on which they lived. 



Mr. Dimmock showed a collection of Cyni- 

 pidae with their galls given to the Club by 

 Mr. C. P. Gillette of Iowa ; it was voted to 

 give the collection to the Boston society of 

 natural history. 



Mr. J. H. Emerton showed specimens of 

 Hypochilus, a spider recently described by 

 Geo. Marx which has the cribellum and cala- 

 mistrum like Filisata and also four respira- 

 tory sacs like the Theraphosidae. These 

 specimens were collected by Miss Mary T. 

 Palmer at Manitou, Col. 



Mr. Emerton also made some remarks on 

 the spiders collected by the Messrs. Smith of 

 Brooklyn, N. Y. in the province of Matto 

 Grosso in Brazil. 



Mr. S. H. Scudder explained the history of 

 a newspaper account of a pretended great 

 flight of butterflies at Westerly, R. I. 



Mr. H. Hinkley showed some artificial in- 

 sects made by Japanese and made some re- 

 marks on the breeding habits of Lepidoptera. 



