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PSYCHE. 



r November — December iSSS. 



PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 



CAMBRIDGE ENTOMOLOGICAL CLUB. 



( Continued from p. jo. ) 



12 Nov. i8S6. — The 123d meeting of the 

 club was held at 61 Sacramento St., Cam- 

 bridge, 12 Nov., 1886. In the absence of the 

 president, Mr. S: H. Scudder was chosen 

 chairman. The secretary announced the 

 withdrawal from the club of Mr. Thaddeus 

 William Harris. As Mr. Harris was a mem- 

 ber of the executive committee a ballot was 

 taken and Dr. George Dimmock elected to 

 fill the vacancy. 



Dr. G : Dimmock read a letter from Mrs. 

 M. L. Owen, of Springfield, with reference to 

 a curious case, exhibited a few meetings ago, 

 which resembled that of one of the tiap-door 

 spiders. 



He then showed specimens of what ap- 

 peared to be a wingless species of chalcidae 

 from Cambridge, and also a specimen of 

 Grapta interrogationtx. with its chrysalis, 

 which emerged 10 Nov. 



Mr. S : H. Scudder showed a photograph of 

 Dr. Asa Fitch taken from an ambrotype. 



Mr. Scudder then read a letter from Miss 

 Adele M. Fielde, in which she described 

 some of her observations on insects in China. 



He then exhibited drawings of Papilio phi- 

 lenar zind P. c/ialcas, by Mr. J. H. Emerton. 



lo Dec, 18S6.— The 124th meeting was 

 held af 61 Sacramento St. , Cambridge. In 

 the absence of the president, Mr. S : H. Scud- 

 der was chosen chairman. 



The Secretary announced the withdrawal 

 from the club of Mr. G : H. Parker. 



Nomination no. 143, that of Mr. Paul 

 Howard Cheney of Cambridge, for active 

 membership was presented by Messrs. Child 

 and Dimmock. 



Dr. G : Dimmock read a paper on the " Re- 

 production of lost limbs in Coleoptera," in 

 which he gave a somewhat detailed account 

 of experiments which he had tried of ampu- 

 tating the legs of larvae of coccinelltdae and 

 the subsequent reproduction of these limbs. 

 The paper was prefaced by an account of 



what had been recorded by previous observers 

 upon the reproduction of lost limbs in in- 

 sects, and will be published in full in Psyche. 



Mr. S: H. Scudder remarked upon an arti- 

 cle by Graber in which that author arrives at 

 the conclusion that the antennae are the only 

 organs sensitive to smell. 



He then read extracts from Plateau's "Une 

 experience sur la fonction des antennes chez 

 la blatte" in which he concludes that the 

 palpi as well as the antennae are capable of 

 the perception of odors. 



Mr. Scudder then showed " The butterflies 

 of India," by G. F. L. Marshall and de Nice- 

 ville, and briefly reviewed the work. 



14 January 1887. —The 125th meeting 

 (nth annual meeting since incorporation) 

 was held at 61 Sacramento St., Cambridge, 

 14 January 1SS7. In the absence of the 

 President, Dr. G: Dimmock was elected to 

 the chair. 



The annual report of the secretary, treas- 

 urer and librarian were presented and 

 accepted, that of the treasurer having been 

 previously examined and approved by the 

 auditors. 



The librarian reported 207 accessions to 

 the library for the year 1S86, making the 

 total number of accessions 1562. 



Nomination no. 143 was acted on and Mr. 

 Paul Howard Cheney elected to active mem- 

 bership. 



The club next passed to the election of 

 officers for 1887, which resulted in the elec- 

 tion of the following: president, J. H. 

 Emerton; secretary, Roland Hayward ; 

 treasurer, B. Pickman Mann ; librarian. 

 G : Dimmock ; members at large of execu- 

 tive committee, George Dimmock and S : H 

 Scudder. 



Mr. B : Pickman Mann was chosen editor 

 of Psyche, with power to choose his asso- 

 ciates. 



The annual address of the president. Prof. 

 S. A. Forbes, was presented by the secretary. 

 The address was upon "The present state 

 of our knowledge concerning contagious 

 insect diseases." (See Psyche, V.J5, p. 3-12.) 



