1904] PROCEEDINGS OF THE CLUB I07 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE CLUB. 



The 238th regular meeting of the Club was held in the Council room on the 

 evening of June 21, 1904. President Emerton in the chair; sixteen members 

 present. Mr. Blackburn showed a large longicorn beetle {Callipogon sp.) cap- 

 tured near a fruit store in Boston. Mr. Sampson showed a remarkable mon- 

 strosity in the shape of a five-winged cecropia. Mr. Denton exhibited butterflies 

 mounted to illustrate protective resemblance, and Mr. Blackburn showed a collec- 

 tion of moths obtained at lights near his house. Mr. Low exhibited a specimen of 

 Mygale hentzii, and Mr. Johnson spoke on variation in the wing-venation of the 

 Tipulid Amalopis inconstans. On the arrival of the Secretary, who was late, the 

 record of the last meeting was read and accepted ; after which the meeting was 

 adjourned. 



By invitation of Mr. Emerton, the 239th regular meeting was held at 194 Clar- 

 endon Street on the evening of September 20, 1904. The President in the chair; 

 eleven members present. The record of the last meeting was read and accepted. 

 On behalf of the Publication Committee, Mr. Field reported recent sales of back 

 volumes of Psyche. Mr. Emerton and Mr. Denton told of the plans thus far made 

 for the exhibition. Mr. Johnson offered to lend boxes to exhibitors, and to receive 

 exhibits sent to Boston by out-of-town exhibitors. 



Mr. Blackburn showed a very large number of specimens of Lepidoptera 

 recently added to the collection he is forming of species taken within the limits of 

 a single city block in Woburn Mr. Newcomb told of some recent observations on 

 the temperature-control of the chirping of crickets. Mr. Rogers reported the cap- 

 ture of Fieris rapae and Colias philodice in copulation. Mr. Johnson exhibited 

 larvae, pupae and imagos of the Tipulid Limnobia iriocellata, obtained from fungi 

 at Riverside, and also showed enlarged drawings of the larva and pupa. Mr. Frost 

 reported the capture of Clcindela hentzii in Framingham, near the Wayland line. 

 Mr. Emerton showed photographs of the tracks made by various insects in the 

 sand at Ipswich, — one of them, the larva of Vanessa aniiopa, which he had found 

 feeding on the grass Ammophila arenaria. 



The meeting was adjourned at 9.20. 



A special meeting was held at 194 Clarendon Street, on Tuesday evening, 

 September 27, 1904. Attendance, fourteen. Mr. Emerton presided, and Messrs. 

 Nathan Banks and A. N. Caudell were present as guests. The meeting was 

 devoted to informal conversation, the principal topic being the influence of temper- 

 ature on the stridulation of orthoptera. 



W. L. W. Field, Secretary. 



