







PSYCHE, 



a. JOTT:R.isr^:Lj of entoimiolog-y. 



[Established in 1S74.] 

 Vol. 6. No. 209. 

 .September, 1S93. 



CONTENTS: 



The primitive number of Malpighian vessels in Insects. — IV. — W. M. Wheeler. 509 

 On variation in the venation of an Arctian with Notes on other allied 



genera (Plate 19). — Harrison G. Dyar. ........ 511 



Local Notes (Dr. Packard's insect-types; Dr. J. W.Randall; the gypsy moth). . 512 

 Descriptions of new species and genera of West African Lepidoptera. — 



VIII (Illustrated)-.— W. J. Holland 513 



Notes on Gluphisia and other Notodontidae. — II. — A.S.Packard. . . . 521 

 On a Fleshy Leaf-gall on Scrub-oak. — C. H. Tyler Townsend. .... 523 



Arctia yarrowii in Canada. — Thomas E. Bean. 523 



Entomological Notes (The seventeen-year locust; the "genuine oestrid larva" of 



the box turtle; Air. J. M. Aldrich ; recent publications). ..... 524 



Proceedings of the Cambridge Entomological Club (Mycetophaetus a Penthe- 

 tria; lepidopterous fauna of the Bahamas ; stridulation of Lepidoptera ; exhibi- 

 tions ; embryology of the sheep tick). ...... . . 525 



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CAMBRIDGE ENTOMOLOGICAL CLUB, 



Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A. 



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