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Fig. o.} Sphinx drupiferarum, natural size. 

 The Plum Sphinx [Sphinx drupiferarum, Sui.-Abb ) Fig. 6, whose larva is furnished 

 ■with a stiff bristly tail, erroneously supposed by ignorant people to be a poisonous sting. 



Fig. 7. Sphinx drupiferarum larva. 



The Yellow-necked Apple tree Caterpillar ( Datana ministra, Drury) and several 

 other interesting species of insects were next exhibited and briefly described. The closing 

 picture displayed the extraordinary chrysalis of an Alrican butterfly which bears 

 a striking resemblance to the face of a monkey. The lecturer regretted that he was 

 unable to obtain an illustration for the lantern of a similarly grotesque chrysalis found in 

 this country, that of the well known butterfly Feniseca Tarquinius, Fabr., whose larva 

 feeds upon the woolly aphis of the alder. 



The following paper was then read by Professor Webster : 



ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGY. 

 By F. M. Webster, Wooster, Ohio. 



This is an appropriate year for retrospections ; and why not in the science of ento 

 ruolooy as well as elsewhere 1 Why may we not stand on the threshold of a new century 

 as the footman who has made his way over the snow-clad prairies, and, at setting sun, 

 faces about and follows with his eyes the stippled, u adulating line of ti-acks that marks 

 his wanderinga over the plain of glistening white 1 Mayhap, as the wanderer turns again 

 to resume his journey, it will be with renew< d vigor and encouragement that will support 

 him in his onward course. And yet the illustration is, in some respects, inapplicable to 

 the case in point, as the entomology of 1899 contains not only all of the knowledge 



