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The M. capitata Smith seems to differ only from this group 

 by the larger", spinose head. 



6. Group occidentalis.^ 

 Females. 



a. Thorax elongate or pyriform. 



Nortoni B\.,/or?nosa Bl., balopilus Bl., altamira Bl., 7iigri- 

 ceps Cress. 



aa. Thorax shorter, hexagonal. 



Cressoni, toluca, ariadne, solola, xalisco, all of Blake, 



Males. 



a. First segment distinctly nodose. 



Macilenta BL, apicalata BL, IVilsoni Cres. , azteca Bl. 



8. Group imperialis. 



Orizaba Bl. 



II. Group hexagona. 



Oajaca BL, palliceps Cress., leona Bl. 



12. Group scrapea. 



Tolteca, cubensis, cinaloa, yiicatana, all of Blake. 



The Harris Club is the name which has been chosen for Boston's 

 new entomological society, whose second meeting was held in the Puritan 

 Building, 35 Court street, on the evening of December 15, 1899. Twelve 

 persons attended the meeting, of whom four — Messrs. John Lowell, Law- 

 rence Brooks, A. H, Clark and C. F. Bowers — were new members. Mr. 

 H. H. Newcomb showed a double cocoon made by larvae of Saviia 

 cyiithia ; outwardly it gave no hint of abnormality, but sectioning dis- 

 closed two inner chambers, placed end to end, each sheltering a pupa. 

 Both pupae had died prematurely. Some dwarf imagos of the same 

 species, reared from underfed larvae by Mr. F. H. Foster, were also 

 shown. Both se.xes are represented in the series. Mr. Lowell told of 

 e.xperimeiits made by him in the taming of butterflies ; considerable 

 success was had with Papilio asterias, which has a habit of patrolling 

 a definite area, and is not easily frightened away. Mr. E. B. Clapp 

 gave an account of a collecting trip to Florida, and exhibited some 

 Florida specimens of Neonympha eurytris which differ markedly from 

 those commonly taken in the North. Mr. Clark reported the capture of 

 a specunen of Melikca phcctojt var. superba Strk. in Newton, Mass. — 

 W. L. VV. Field, Secretary. 



• Rubriceps Cress, from Cuba, iztapa Bl. from Honduras, proserpina Bl. from same 

 region probably belong here. These are the only three exotic species described by these 

 authors which I have not seen. 



