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PSYCHE. 



[April 1S92. 



President, Rev. W.J. Holland, of Pittsburgh, 

 Pa. ; Secretary, Roland Havward ; Treasurer, 

 Samuel Henshaw; Librarian, Samuel H. 

 Scudder; Members at large of Executive 

 Committee, J. H. Emerton and S. H. Scudder. 



The Secretary announced that the address 

 of the retiring President had not been re- 

 ceived. 



Voted to authorize the Treasurer to sell the 

 non-entomological works in the Club's library 

 and devote the proceeds to the payment of 

 debts incurred in the publication of vol. 5 of 

 Psyche. 



Mr. S. H. Scudder gave a brief account of 

 his studies of the tertiary Rhynchophora of 

 North America of which he had just com- 

 pleted a monograph for the U. S. geological 

 survey. 



Mr. J. H. Emerton showed drawings of 

 various Thomisidae and remarked briefly on 

 work which he had recently been doing in 

 this family. 



Mr. A. P. Morse recorded the capture of 

 Melanoplus Junius Dodge at Jackson, N. H., 

 Jay, Vt. , Montgomery, Vt., and North Con- 

 way, N. H., from July 3-30. He also stated 

 that he had taken a specimen of Hespero- 

 tettix viridis at Wellesley, Mass. 



12 February 1892. — The i6Sth meeting of 

 theclub was held at 156 Brattle St., Mr. S. 

 Henshaw in the chair. Mr. A. P. Morse was 

 chosen secretary pro tempore. 



A letter from Dr. W.J. Holland was read 

 accepting the office of president of the club 

 for the ensuing year. It was voted to make 

 Mr. B. Pickman Mann a life-member in con- 

 sideration of his striking off fifty dollars of 

 the indebtedness due him on account of vol. 

 iv of Psyche. 



The address of the retiring president, Prof. 

 F. H. Snow, of the University of Kansas, on 

 "Experiments for the destruction of chinch 

 bugs by infection", was read by Mr. Scudder. 



Mr. S. H. Scudder exhibited some beetles 

 from Sonora, Mexico, of the genus Caryoba- 

 rus, family Bruchidae, with the palm-seeds 

 from which they emerged. Also, with criti- 

 cal remarks, some inflated larvae he had 



recently received of several European and 

 Asiatic butterflies. 



11 March, 1892 — The 169th meeting was 

 held at 156 Brattle St., Mr. S. H. Scudder in 

 the chair. 



In showing the recent additions to the 

 library, the librarian called attention to a 

 paper by Dr. Urech on the colors of the 

 scales of butterflies addressed to the Club by 

 the author, the address being written " with 

 the decocted wing colors in butterflies of 

 Vanessa urticae." 



Mr. S. H. Scudder exhibited a series of 

 about 500 specimens of the Orthopteran 

 genus Hippiscus which had served as the 

 base of a study of the group he had recently 

 completed. Saussure in 1884 and 1S8S had 

 separated two groups which he regarded as 

 genera, Hippiscus and Xanthippus, and had 

 placed in the former seven species, in the 

 latter ten, with one he had not seen in an un- 

 certain position, in all eighteen species. In 

 this revision they are divided into three 

 groups regarded as subgenera, Hippiscu6 

 with eleven species, five of them new;Sticht- 

 hippus (not seen by Saussure) with two 

 species, both of them new; and Xanthippus 

 with twenty-five species, fifteen of them 

 new; in all thirty-eight species. Two of 

 Saussure's species, Hippiscus occlote from 

 Mexico and Xanthippus lateritius from 

 Nevada, not seen, are included in these, 

 some few changes in specific nomenclature 

 have been required, and one species provis- 

 ionally placed by Saussure in Xanthippus has 

 been removed elsewhere ; a different arrange- 

 ment of the species is proposed, particularly 

 in Hippiscus, and two described species 

 not seen by Saussure are definitely placed. 



He also exhibited some blood-red larvae 

 about 5 mm. long brought him as having 

 been sent from Berkshire Co. by a man who 

 thought they had fallen in myriads with the 

 last fall of snow. They appeared to be of a 

 species of Sciara or allied genus of flies, and 

 their occurrence in midwinter, full grown and 

 living on the surface of snow, appeared to 

 be new. 



