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PSYCHE. 



[ May iSSS. 



bv Messrs. S. A. Forbes and W : Trelease. 

 ^37- ^^ • '^- Garinan, of Champaign, 111., 

 bj Messrs. Forbes and G : Dimmock. 13S. 

 Clarence M. Weed, of Champaign, 111., by 

 Messrs. Forbes and G : H. Parker. 139. 

 Charles A. Hart, of Champaign, 111., by 

 Messrs. Forbes and F, S. Child. 140. T : F. 

 Hunt, of Champaign, III., by Messrs. Forbes 

 and R. Hayward. 141. Prof. C; Robertson, 

 of Carlinville. 111., by Messrs. Forbes and 

 S: H. Scudder. 142. C : W : Woodworth, of 

 Champaign, 111., by Messrs. Forbes and Dim- 

 mock. 



The receipt of an invitation to attend the 

 celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the 

 Verein fiir naturkunde, in Cassel, Germany, 

 was annoimced, and Messrs. S : H. Scudder 

 and R. Hayward were appointed a committee 

 to draft suitable resolutions. 



Mr. S : H. Scudder remarked on a pre-his- 

 toric beetle. Borings made by this insect 

 had been found in juniper, which had been 

 discovered in beds of the inter-glacial period. 

 The species belongs to the scolytidae, proba- 

 bly to the subfamilv Jiylurgini^ as defined by 

 Leconte and Horn. The paper was illus- 

 trated by drawings of the borings of this 

 species, and those of existing scolytidae. 



Dr. G : Dimmock showed a female of Hip- 

 •podamia convergois, which had hibernated 

 in a cold cellar. The beetle had copulated 

 but once, and that in the fall. Dr. Dimmock 

 gave statistics of the eggs which this beetle 

 had laid, and which proved fertile, and made 

 further remarks upon rearing coccincllidae. 



Mr. S : H. Scudder made some remarks on 

 Melittia cucurbitae and a related species. 

 [See PsvcHE, July-Sept. 18S5, v. 4, p. 303- 



304-] 



Abstract of Treasurer's Report-, 12 Mar. 

 '86. By B: Pickman Mann. 



Open accounts have been kept seperately 

 with each volume of Psyche, orthej'ears to 

 which each corresponds. The account for 

 volume one shows ;i deficit of $16.05 ! that of 

 volume two, $^39.59; that for the years 1S80 

 to 1882, inclusive, a balance on hand of $34. 

 59; that of volume four, not yet completed, 

 already shows a deficit of $150.66. The prin- 

 cipal of the permanent publication fund 



amounts to $386.39. [The Treasurer's re- 

 port was duly audited and approved.] 



Entomological Society of London. 

 {^Continued from xk 4, p. 314.) 



I Oct. 1S84. — Mr. R. McLachlan exhibited 

 a specimen of nemopteridae^ which was cap- 

 tured by Mr. J. J. Walker at Coquimbo. This 

 was remarkable as hitherto no species of this 

 familj' had been known to occur in America. 

 This new species appeared to come nearest 

 to Brachystoma Rambur. 



Baron C : R. Osten Sacken communicated 

 " Facts concerning the importation or non- 

 importation of diptera into distant countries." 



3 Dec. 1884. — Baron C : R. Osten Sacken 

 was elected an honorary member of the 

 society. 



Mr. A. S. OUiff exhibited Aciplius singu- 

 lar is^ recently described in the '■'■ Entomolo- 

 gist's monthly magazine,'" froip Brazil. It 

 had the appearance ' of one of the staphyli- 

 nidac. but was a Cucn/us strongly resem- 

 bling Diagryf nodes wakefieldii, from New 

 Zealand. 



Mr. C: O. Waterhouse exhibited a speci- 

 men of yiilodis Jinchi from Karachi, a 

 buprestid of nearly twice the size of the 

 largest hitherto known species, and recently 

 described by him in the " Annals and maga- 

 zine of natural history.'" 



Rev. Leonard Blomfield contributed a note 

 on a beetle taken near Bath, England, which 

 proved to be Monohammus titillator. It 

 was taken by a man engaged in chopping 

 wood that proved to be North American pine, 

 and was the second specimen that had been 

 taken alive in England. 



Mr. H. J. S. Pryer contributed a paper 

 " On two remarkable cases of mimicry from 

 Elopura, British North Borneo, with remarks 

 on IVIr. George Lewis' paper read before the 

 society on 4th October 1882"... [Several 

 cases of mimicry were cited by Messrs. But- 

 ler and Waterhouse in discussing Mr. Pryer's 

 paper; these citations are given in detail in 

 the Proceedings.] — Abstracted and compiled 

 from the Trans. Entom. soc. Land., 1884; 

 Proc. 



