Scudder.] 
370 
[Jan. 20 , 
in the work of the Society. On motion of Professor Hyatt it 
was voted that the Society express to Mr. Scudder’s family its 
sincere sympathy for their loss. 
It was announced that the Council had chosen Mr. E. T. 
Bouv6 Treasurer pro tempore ; also that Lewis R. Harley, Mrs. 
Louisa F. Lowery, Elbridge K. Newhall, Miss Marcella I. 
O’Grady, James F. Porter, and Robert Wain wright had been 
elected Corporate Members, and William Brewster, Mrs. E. D. 
Cheney, Charles B. Cory, Arthur F. Estabrook, and James C. 
Melvin, Garden Members. 
Mr. Percival Lowell read a paper on Shinto occultism from a 
scientific standpoint. 
Professor E. S. Morse described and sketched the form of the 
ancient bow in various parts of the world. 
January 20, 1892. 
Vice-President Samuel Wells in the chair. Thirty-four per- 
sons present. 
Professor Charles V. Riley spoke of the life-history and habits 
of the digger-wasp, Sphecius speciosus , and gave a detailed de- 
scription of the larva ; be drew attention to a very remarkable 
and anomalous series of pores which occurs about the center of 
the cocoon extending nearly around it. 
Professor Riley also offered a few notes upon caprification and 
gave a brief sketch of the introduction of the Blastophaga into 
California and the discovery of a native species in Florida. 
The following paper was read : 
THE TERTIARY RHYNCHOPHORA OF NORTH 
AMERICA. 
BY SAMUEL H. SCUDDER. 
[ Published by permission of the Director of the U. S. Geological Survey.] 
The assortment of the mass of Tertiary insects from our west- 
ern deposits, upon which I have been engaged for many years, 
has brought to light an unexpectedly large number of Rhyncho- 
