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PSYCHE. 



[September 1891. 



tip of the anal hook, and was slightly larger, 

 especially around the abdomen. The dates 

 of finding this larva and of its pupation were 

 the same with that of last year, and the place 

 was within a foot of the spot where last 

 year's larva was found ! Caroline G. Soule. 



Miscellaneous Notes. — With the me- 

 thodical precision which marks the work 

 of the entomologists of the Austrian capital, 

 Redtenbacher, in the 2d part of the Ver- 

 handlungen of the zoological-botanical 

 society of Vienna for 1S91, gives a mono- 

 graph of the locustarian subfamily Conoce- 

 phalinae which extends to nearly 250 pp. and 

 is accompanied by two excellent folding 

 plates. Redtenbacher divides the group into 

 four tribes : Conocephalini with 25 genera 

 and 166 species (3 genera and 12 species 

 from the United States) ; Agroeciini with 30 

 genera and 94 species ; Xiphidiini with 3 

 genera and 68 species (1 genus and 17 

 species from the United States) ; and List- 

 roscelini with 6 genera and 35 species. 

 Conocephalus alone has 101 species and 

 Xiphidium (including Orchelimum, separ- 

 ated only as a subgenus) 66 species; the 

 only United States species not contained in 

 Conocephalus (7 sp.) and Xiphidium (17 sp.) 

 are Belocephaliis subafiterus Scudd. and 

 Pyri^ocorypka uncinate! {Conocep/ialits 

 uncinatus Harr.). 



At the July meeting of the Entomological 

 society of London, it was stated by Dr. T. A. 

 Chapman, an excellent observer, that the 

 larva of Micropteryx, one of the lower Lepi- 

 doptera, possesses on each of the eight 

 abdominal segments "a pair of minute jointed 

 legs of the same type as the thoracic. There 

 are also a pair of long jointed antennae." 



To an interesting and very thorough de- 

 scription of an hermaphroditic spider, Bert- 

 kau appends a catalogue of recent cases and 

 states that 361 hermaphroditic Arthropoda 

 are now known, of which 9 are Crustacea, 3 

 Arachnida, and 349 insects, divided as fol- 

 lows : 2 Orthoptera, 11 Diptera, 267 Lepi- 

 doptera, 59 Hymenoptera, and 10 Coleop- 



tera. In 165 cases where the separation is 

 lateral, 85 are males on the right side, 71 on 

 the left, leaving 9 uncertain. 



PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 



CAMBRIDGE ENTOMOLOGICAL CLUB. 



14 March, 1890. — The I52d meeting was 

 held at 156 Brattle St. Mr. S. Henshaw was 

 chosen chairman. 



Mr. S. H. Scudder exhibited illustrations 

 showing the work done by beetles in the 

 staves of the Ottawa water works, described 

 in a letter from Mr. James Fletcher, read at 

 the last meeting. 



Mr. Scudder stated that he had completed 

 his work on Fossil insects of the West, 

 planned for Hayden's Survey some fifteen 

 years ago. It contains descriptions of some 

 612 species. He further showed a tintype of 

 carboniferous cockroaches from the coal de- 

 posits of Rhode Island. The'y were nearly 

 all of them collected near Silver Spring, a 

 suburb of Providence. 



11 April, 1890. — The 153d meeting of the 

 Club was held at 156 Brattle St., Mr. S. Hen- 

 shaw in the chair. 



Mr. Henshaw read a letter from Mr. Elli- 

 son A. Smyth, Jr., on some southern Lepidop- 

 tera. In this article mention was made of 

 the capture of two specimens of Neouympha 

 canthus near Charleston, S. C. (See Psyche, 

 1890, v. 5, p. 34S.) A short discussion fol- 

 lowed on some of our spring butterflies. 



Mr. S. H. Scudder exhibited specimens of 

 some Gryllidae recently received from a cor- 

 respondent in Spain, of the genus Platy- 

 blemmus, in which the front of the head is 

 prolonged and dilated into a flat plate, re- 

 sembling somewhat the clypeus of some 

 Scarabaeidae. 



Mr. Scudder recorded the occurrence of 

 Pteromalus as parasitic on Jasoniades glau- 

 cus, Euphoeades troilus, Papilio polyxenes, 

 and Euphydryas phaeton. He also read a 

 letter from Mr. James Fletcher, in which was 

 noted the occurrence of several specimens 

 of Erebia discoidalis at Sudbury, Ont. 



