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PSYCHE. 



[December 1891. 



-first known instance of a spider making an 

 operculate burrow, outside of the Territel- 

 ariae ; the paper is accompanied by an ex- 

 cellent plate. 



Mr. E. P. Van Duzee has published in the 

 Bulletin of the Buffalo society of natural 

 sciences an annotated list of the Macrolep- 

 idoptera of the vicinity of Buffalo, number- 

 ing 777 species. The relative abundance and 

 station of most of the species are given. 



Two mire new works upon British insects 

 are now under way. Mr. Charles G. Barrett, 

 one of the editors of the Entomologist's 

 monthly magazine, is publishing through 

 Reeve and Company a descriptive account 

 of the families, genera, and species of Lepi„ 

 doptera of the British Islands with an ac- 

 count of their preparatory stages, habits, and 

 localities. It is to be issued by parts in a 

 large and small paper form for 54 and 10 

 shillings respectively. The second work is 

 an account of British flies by F. B. Theobald, 

 which is published by Elliot Stock. Six 

 parts are to appear annually at a shilling 

 each, but the extent of the work is not indi- 

 cated in the advertisement of the same. 



The seventh part of Kolbe's Introduction 

 to the knowledge of insects completes in 

 about twenty pages the account of the ab- 

 dominal appendages by sections on the ex- 

 ternal male organs of generation, the fleshy 

 legs of many larvae, and a few minor topics, 

 besides a bibliography of the subject which 

 itself extends over half a dozen pages ; this 

 and the other special bibliographies, of which 

 this part has several of much value, would 

 be more convenient if more orderly; they 

 appear to be neither alphabetical nor chrono- 

 logical and to have been somewhat hastily 

 compiled. The internal organs occupy the 

 rest of the part; first the hard parts and then 

 the muscles, though in this the order of the 

 prospectus is slightly violated. All the sub- 

 jects are treated in the same excellent man- 

 ner as in the earlier parts, but at the present 

 rate the work will not be finished for several 

 years. 



At the October meeting of the Entomo- 

 logical Society of London Mr. Johnson ex- 

 hibited a specimen of Nabis killed while 

 holding its prey, a very hard species of Ich- 

 neumon ; Mr. Saunders thought that from 

 the nature of the Ichnumon the only chance 

 the Nabis had of reaching its internal juices 

 would be through the anal opening. Mr. 

 Wailly exhibited larvae of Citheronia regulis 

 in various stages bred from eggs received 

 from Iowa and thought to be the first bred in 

 England; Prof. J. B. Smith of New Jersey 

 took part in a discussion which followed 

 upon the habits of the larva. Dr. Sharp 

 showed a weevil, Ectopsis ferrugalis of New 

 Zealand, the ends of the elytra of which bore 

 a close resemblance to the section of a twig 

 cut with a sharp knife. 



PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 

 Cambridge entomological club. 



13 February. 1891. — The 160th meeting of 

 the Club was held at 156 Brattle St. Mr. 

 S. H. Scudder was chosen chairman. 



Mr. S. II. Scudder showed two of the 

 specimens of Zopherus mentioned by him in 

 Psyche (v. 5. p. 406) which were still living. 

 He also exhibited some interesting figures of 

 fossil Rhynchophora from Florissant, Col. 



13 March, 1891. — The 161st meeting of 

 the Club was held at 156 Brattle St. Mr. 

 S. Henshaw was chosen chairman. 



Remarks were made concerning the recent 

 death of Mr. Holmes Hinkley, one of the 

 more active members and a member of the 

 Executive Committee. 



An informal discussion followed on the 

 monstrosities of Coleoptera, in which all par- 

 ticipated. Mr. S. H. Scudder showed one 

 specimen each of Galerita janus, Chlaenius 

 tomentosus, Lachiiosterna /wsrrt, and Trichius 

 figer. all of which exhibited some curious 

 malformations. (See Psvche, v. 6. p. S9-93, 

 pi. 2.) 



