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21, 22. *Chiriquibia, 22. *Chlorizanthe,

21. Cotinis, 2r, 22, 24. Euphoria, 23"Genuchinus, 23 Gymnetis, 21, 22, 23

Trickiidae. Coelocratus, 23. Dialithus,

23 Trigonopeltastes, 23New genera are marked (*); the figure

following the name of the genus indicates

the number of the plate.The total number of species enumerated

is 1,roi contained in r57 genera; more than

Ioo of the species are unnamed owing to the

insufficiency of the material. Seventy-threeof the species found in the Central American

fauna occur also in Atnerica north ofMexico.

Correclion.In the last number of Psyche,p. 131, col. 2, last line of text but two, for 3species, read species.

TWO FORMS OF PRODOXUS COLO-RADENSIS RILEY.

THE tWO forms here described were taken

by Mr. R. R. Larkin on flowers of Yucca, in

company with the type form, in April, near

the N. M. Agricultural College, Mesilla

Valley, New Mexico. Their description as

varieties will probably prevent them from

being regarded as distinct species by thosewho may receive specimens without knowl-edge of the circumstances under which theyoccurred.

(I.) Prodous coloradensis var. n. lautus.Differs from the type in being white, with

only indistinct traces of the black markingson the primaries. Of these, markings, themarginal-band and the Y-mark are usuallymost distinctly traceable. The insect appearsat first sight either white, or white slightlyclouded with grey, but on comparison withthe typical form it is seen that the markings,so far as traceable, exactly correspond inposition.

(2,) Prodoxus coloradensis var. n. conffluens.The two innermost dark bands or primaries

coalesced in such a manner as to form a ,so that the dark markings of the wing consistof the marginal band, and two Ys, one in-versed, the other, as in the type, in the,

ordinary position.T. D. A. Cockerell.

Mesilla, eV. M., Sebt. 7, 897.

WEED’S LIFE HISTORIES.

Books about insects for the ordinary readerare not common in America, and when oneappears which is simple, straightforward andcorrect, and especially if it deals with thecreatures in all their stages, we are glad towelcome it. Such is Weed’s Life Histories ofAmerican Insects, iust published by Macmil-lan for $I.5O. The sketches are mostly shortand unrelated, so that the book may be takenup at any point without missing connections,but it is suggestive of a vast deal nore tolearn and it is generally accurate and wellpresented. We notice only one bad slip,where a Locustar[a is figured as a "leaf-insect"which it certainly is, leaf-insectsoccuring in several groups, but the only ref-erence to leaf-insects in the text is on thepage facing this cut, where the Pkasmids aresaid to be composed of the walking-sticksand the leaf-insects." There are over a hun-dred illustrations.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE CLUB.

8 October, I897. The 197th meeting washeld at I56 Brattle St., Mr. S. Henshaw inthe chair. Mr. J. w. Folsom was chosensecretary 35ro tern.Mr. S. H. Scudder showed specimens of the

huge Brackystola magna from Mexico, col-lected a year or two ago by Dr. Edward Pal-mer in Durango. Dr. Palmer writes thatthey are sometimes very destructive to cornand beans, and if there is a deficiency of rainwhen the plants are young these grasshoppersfeed on them because the grass is tough. Atthe village of Magdalena, he adds, I saw a

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procession going from field to field singingand praying that rain might fall so that thecorn and beans might grow, and that the grassmight revive so that the grasshoppers wouldbe diverted from the crops. Jk picture of a

saint was carried at the head of the proces-sion, which was composed entirely of fe-males; the males remained in the village tohave games of pitch and toss.’He further stated that Miss Katherine W.

Huston had reported to him the capture ofone specimen and the sight of another of

Cunonia coenia at Blistol, Me., during thelatter part of last July; there is only one rec-ord of a capture further north than this. Healso read a letter from Mr. W. T. Bell ofFranklin, Penn., giving the names of certainbutterflies taken there the past year for thefirst time. These were given by Mr. Bell as

Tkecla henrici, T. n@kon, T. irus, var. arsace,Lib. backmanii, Colias coesonia, Terias

nic@pe, and Papilio ajax, var. telamonidesA more remarkable case of Libylkaea back-mann was one seen close at hand by Mr. F.H. Sprague in Wollaston, June 21, 1896 it

was, however, not captured a similar instancewas recorded in the current volume of Psyche,P. 43.Messrs. Henshaw and Folsom remarked

upon the unhealthy condition of the leavesof maple trees in this vicinity during the earlysummer, a condition wide spread and notice-

able. The leaves turned brown and witheredon certain tr.ees only or on certain parts oftrees from no very evident cause. This phe-nomenon was attributed to loss of water fromthe punctures of plant lice, which had beenunusually abundant antecedent to the discol-oration. The remarkably moist season of1897 is a probable explanation of the abun-dance of Aphididae and, correlated with this,Coccinellidae were also very numerous, i’n-cluding the large Anatis zS-ibunctata of themaple. It will be advisable, in future yearsto spray maple trees just as soon as plant-liceappear upon them in considerable numbers,without waiting until their injuries are seen,because the aphides will then have disap-peared.

Mr. Folsom made some remarks upon theanatomy of Collembola and the difficultiesattending the dissection of these insects.Mr. Scudder stated that Mr. J. A. Lintner

had sent him for determination a specimenof the tropical cockroach, 2Vyctobora holoser-icea, which had flown into a house in Albany,N. Y., in September it was probably import-ed with bananas. He also exhibited specimensof the large destructive locust of Argentina,Sckttocerca jbaranensis, sometimes con-founded with S. peregrina, which had beensent him by Prof. Lawrence Bruner of Ne-braska, now engaged in studying its naturalhistory in the province of Santa

The Butterflies ,of the Eastern United States and Canada,With special reference to New England. By SAMUEL H. SCUDDER.

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Vols. -7, and Subscription to Volume 8 $37.00.Vol. 7 contains over 5oo pp. and o plates, besides other illustrations.

Just Published, by Henry Holt & Co., New York.Scudder’s Brief Guide to the Com-moner Butterflies.By SAMUEL H. SCUDDER. xi + 2O6 pp.I2mo. $1.25An introduction, for the young student, to

the names and something of the relationshipand lives of our commoner butterflies. Theauthor has selected for treatment the butter-flies, less than one hundred in number, whichwould be almost surely met with by an in-dustrious collector in a course of a year’s ortwo year’s work in our Northern States eastof the Great Plains, and in Canada. Whileall the apparatu necessary to identify thesebutterflies, in their earlier as well as perfectstage, is supplied, it is far from the author’spropose to treat them as if they wereso manymere postage-stamps to be classified and ar-ranged in a cabinet. He has accordinglyadded to the descriptions of the different spe-cies, their most obviou stages, some of thecurious facts concerning their periodicity andtheir habits of life.

Scudder’s The Life of a Butterfly.A Chapter in Natural History forthe General Reader.

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