ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN. 



781 



indications of oviposition was noted. Several 

 apple orchards visited were so teeming with the 

 insects that marked damage must result. Here 

 the larval forms had burrowed their way 

 through hard-trodden paths, which were riddled 

 with holes. The shed shells were attached to 

 the trees in clusters and masses. Several fe- 

 males were noted depositing eggs in branches 

 bearing fruit. Careful measurement showed 

 the ovipositor to have penetrated the branch to 

 a depth of a quarter of an inch. The peculiar 

 action of the ovipositor reduces the point of 

 oviposition to a veritable pulp, depriving small 

 branches from that point to the extremity of any 

 possible nourishment. By sectioning branches 

 we found that from two to five eggs were de- 

 posited at each point of actual puncture. By 

 the 12th of June, the work of depositing the 

 eggs had become general. 



It is not difficult for the novice to distinguish 

 the male and female insects. Both have the 

 bright red eyes and there is little or no differ- 

 ence in the body color or form, but an examina- 

 tion of the under-surface will at once enable the 

 observer to determine the sexes. The male is 

 provided at the rear of the thorax — that portion 

 bearing the limbs — with two nearly circular 

 flaps, which look like large scales. These flaps 

 cover the singing membranes. There is no in- 

 dication of them on the female. The latter sex 

 is characterized by a shining, lanceolate appen- 

 dage at the rear of the abdomen. This is the 

 ovipositor. It is incorrectly alleged that the 

 male insects live but a few hours after leaving 

 the ground. 



As an important, though quite temporary fea- 

 ture of the Society's insect collection, the writer 

 lias prepared an exhibit of the living insects, 

 daily collecting a number of specimens for the 

 purpose. A life-history group is also exhibited, 

 while to further the knowledge of the Cicada 

 among the school children a large number of 

 glass-covered mounts containing the locusts 

 have been placed on sale at about the cost of 

 making them. These mounts are in the shape 

 of tablets containing insects that have been 

 dried on setting boards. On the back of the 

 tablets is a description. 



WANTED. 



One Copy of Zoological Society 

 Bulletin No. 1. 



NEW MEMBERS. 

 February 16 — May 24, 1911. 



LIFE 



Capt. Guy B. Burrage, 

 Charles Deering. 

 Richard M. Hoe, 

 Mrs. Richard M. Hoe, 



MEMBERS. 



Mrs. Morris K. Jesup, 

 Mrs. A. D. Juilliard, 

 Grenville Kane, 

 A. M. Post Mitchell. 



ANNUAL 



L. H. Amy, 



George Powell Benjamin, 



Alden S. Blodget, 



Miss Ella F. Bolton, 



Stephen X. Bond, 



Miss Edith G. Bowdoin, 



Starling W. Childs, 



F. Douglas Cochrane, 



Mrs. Jefferson Coddington, 



Jonathan H. Crane, 



Mrs. Jonathan H. Crane, 



Charles A. Dana, 



H. F. DePuy, 



George G. DeWitt, 



George H. Diehl, Jr., 



Joseph Dowd, 



Mrs. John P. Duncan, 



J. M. Ellsworth, 



Wm. Gordon Fellows, 



Mrs. Anderson Fowler, 



Aaron V. Frost, 



Mrs. F. Norton Goddard, 



Mrs. W. C. Gulliver, 



Herbert Drake Halsey, 



Mrs. Albert H. Harris, 



Bernhard F. Hermann, 



Mrs. Christian A. Herter, 



W. Truslow Hvde, 



Mrs. A. F. Hyde, 



Dr. Robert J. Kahn, 



Dr. Ludwig Kast, 



Mrs. Hamilton Fish Kean, 



MEMBERS. 



Cyrus S. King, 



Wm. X. Kremer, 



Mrs. Thomas Wm. Lamont, 



Mrs. James F. D. Lanier, 



James M. Lehmaier, 



Frank J. Logan, 



Mrs. Pierre Mali, 



James H. Masterson, . 



R. H. Milstead, 



Carleton Montgomery, 



Charles C. Mook, 



Mrs. M. L. Xeumoegen, 



John H. Xorthrop, 



John T. Pratt, 



Fred. Sauter, Jr. 



Dr. A. F. Schauffler, 



Mrs. A. F. Schauffler, 



Mrs. James R. Sheffield, 



Edward W. Sheldon, 



J. J. Slocum, 



Robert K. Smith, 



Rev. C. R. Stetson, 



Carl Stoeckel, 



Miss Annie Stone, 



Benjamin Strong. Jr., 



Archibald G. Thacher, 



George D. Tilley, 



Arthur Turnbull. 



Mrs. Patrick A. Valentine, 



W. E. Warner, 



Hermann Wunderlich. 



LAST LIVING PASSENGER PIGEON. 



5ELDOM has anything attracted any more 

 attention to the Cincinnati Zoological Gar- 

 den than the female Passenger Pigeon that 

 is claimed to be the last representative of this 

 species. This bird is now about nineteen years 

 old, and was born in the Garden in a flock of 

 Pigeons originally received from northern 

 Michigan. The flock was kept in an open 

 cage about twelve feet square, and consisted 

 originally of ten birds. One-half dozen or more 

 birds were hatched from this flock, and it was 

 gradually depleted until in 1910 there were but 

 two birds left. In that year the older of the 

 two birds died, at an age of twenty-six years, 

 leaving the female which is still alive. 



