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PSYCHE. 



[January 1893. 



Heraclides cresphontes. — On page 294 

 of the present volume of Psyche a note is 

 made of the capture of H. cresphontes in 

 Massachusetts, and it is remarked that no 

 other specimen has been known to have been 

 seen since 1883. 



One other specimen has certainly been 

 obtained since then, the late James A. 

 Wright having found one at or near Milton, 

 Mass., during the summer of 18S5. The 

 specimen being very fine was shown with a 

 few other rare species at the Natural History 

 store then located at 409 Washington St., 

 Boston. 



The specimen was found, if I recollect 

 rightly, at early dusk in a small clearing in 

 the woods not far from the town, the day 

 being very warm and more or less cloudy. 

 Not being familiar with the species Mr. 

 Wright sent it to New York for identification, 

 and it is now in the collection of a Boston 

 entomologist. Lewis E. Hood. 



Ants breeding in and in. — Forel an- 

 nounces (Ann. soc. ent. Belgique, v. 36 p. 458) 

 that among ants of the genera Anergates and 

 Formicoxenus there is no other male than a 

 wingless ergatoid form, such as sometimes 

 accompanies the normal male in other gen- 

 era, and that therefore pairing must always 

 take place in the ant hill itself between 

 brothers and sisters ; so we have here cases 

 of perpetual consanguineous reproduction. 

 "Among ordinary ants the winged $ and $ 

 quit the nest in which they were born, take 

 flight, and pair in mid air with their con- 

 geners of other nests, permitting numerous 

 crosses. But in the case of the genera which 

 have only an apterous male perpetual con- 

 sanguineous pairing ensues, for in one and the 

 same nest there are found only brothers and 

 sisters, and these brothers and sisters can 

 only pair with one another. The fact ap- 

 pears absolutely clear in the genus Anergates, 

 where one finds in each ant hill only a single 

 fecundated female, the mother founder of the 

 colony." 



PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 



CAMBRIDGE ENTOMOLOGICAL CLUB. 



11 November, 1S92. — The 173d meeting was 

 held at 156 Brattle Street. Mr. S. Henshaw 

 was chosen chairman. 



Mr. Harrison G. Dyar of Roxbury was 

 elected an active member. 



Mr. S- H. Scudder exhibited the series of 

 Phasmidae in his collection arranged after 

 the system introduced by Stal, and showed 

 that the species found in our country were 

 more numerous than had been supposed, 

 including at least four species of Diaphero- 

 mera, one of Sermyle, two of Bacunculus, 

 one or possibly two of Anisomorpha and two 

 of Bacillus. The last was the most interest- 

 ing, as the genus has not hitherto been 

 recognized in the new world and all the other 

 genera are distinctively American. One of 

 the species, which he proposed to call B. 

 coloradus, was found in Colorado at a height 

 of about 5500', and had the metathorax very 

 much shorter than the mesothorax, their 

 median carina much more pronounced than 

 the laterodorsal carinae, and with scarcely a 

 trace of granulation, except very feebly in 

 the front portion of the mesothorax, besides 

 a unicolorous head. The other species occurs 

 in Arizona and extends south into Mexico; 

 it has the metathorax but little shorter than 

 the mesothorax, both median and latero- 

 dorsal carinae pronounced, the whole body 

 sparsely and finely granulate and the head 

 longitudinally striped; he proposed for it the 

 name B. carinatus. In both the antennae 

 beyond the second joint are multiarticulate, 

 but the joints, which are transverse, so nearly 

 connate as to be difficult to distinguish. 

 Only females are known. 



Mr. S. Henshaw showed a specimen of 

 Antkrenus scrophulariae taken at Cambridge, 

 Mass., in 1869, and one of Aramigus fuller i 

 from the same locality taken in 1S68; these 

 dates are earlier than any hitherto recorded. 

 Both specimens are from the collection of the 

 late Mr. Edward Burgess. 



