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PSYCHE. 



[May 1S93. 



Voted: That Article V of the By-Laws be 

 amended by striking out the words "the 

 members of this committee chosen at large 

 shall audit the accounts of the treasurer," and 

 substituting therefor "the accounts of the 

 treasurer shall be audited by a committee of 

 two appointed at the annual meeting by the 

 chair." 



Dr. II. S. Pratt of Cambridge was elected 

 to active membership. 



Mr. S. H. Scudder exhibited a male of Mel- 

 anoflus atlatu's taken by Mrs. A. T. Slosson 

 on the summit of Mt. Lafayette, N. H., in 

 October, in which the terminal segment of 

 the abdomen was entire and not notched. 

 The nearest approach to this condition which 

 he had been able to find after examining 

 many individuals of this species was in some 

 taken in the Moosehead Lake district of 

 Maine. Like these also it differs from more 

 southern specimens of the same species in 

 that the marginal apophyses of the last dorsal 

 segment are relatively shorter and are gibbous 

 at the base. He also showed specimens of a 

 species of Metrypa taken at Capron, Fla., by 



Mr. E. A. Schwarz and at Punta Gorda, 

 Charlotte Harbor, in the same state, by Mrs. 

 Slosson. This is the first record of the genus 

 in the United States. 



Mr. Scudder further stated that recently, in 

 the course of compiling certain statistics for 

 the U. S. Geological Survey, he had occasion 

 to count the number of drawings of fossil in- 

 sects which had been made under his direction 

 and found that they exceeded 3500 — a larger 

 number, he believed, than had fallen under 

 the study of any one else; of these 1949 (in- 

 cluding a number now printing) had already 

 been published on 97 plates, all but 18 of 

 quarto size. 



Mr. H. G. Dyar read a paper on the species 

 of Arctia occurring at Pougkeepsie, N. Y., 

 and exhibited specimens and drawings. 



Mr. A. P. Morse read a description of a 

 new species of Stenobothrus and made 

 remarks on the New England species of the 

 genus*which were exhibited. 



The club then proceeded to examine por- 

 tions of Mr. Scudder's collection of Orthop- 

 tera. 



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