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Stage IT'. (Green form}. Head round, flat· tened, oblique, clypeus half to Yertex, mouth projecting, antennae moderate, divergent; green, whitish in the clypeus, antennae white, mouth brownish shaded; width 1.4 mm. Body cylindrical, slightly narrowed before, normal, moderate; segments obscurely 6-annulate. Green, faintly white lined; thoracic feet and a row of segmentary. diffuse, subconfluent ventral spots and base of foot of joint IO purple brown. Th e more distinct pale lines are addorsal, subdorsal, a broad s lightly yellowi sh diffu,e one on subYentral fold and broken a,h·entral. Tubercles whitish green, roundedly elevated, low. Setae short, obscure. (Brown form). Head broadly brown over the lobes, the edges of the patch mottled, brown mark s on sutures and in elypens. Bod_,. pale brown, faintly pale lined; a dark brown dorsal line and broken stigmata! one, rathe1· broad; ventral and foot marks as in the green form. Sub\·entral fold broadly pale.

Stage 1'. (G reen form.) l!ead green, rounded , tlatly outstretched, whiti sh streaked about clypeus, antennae rather long, yellowish white, llJOuth pale; width ~ mm. Body cylindrical, suln·entral fold distinct; uniform, not elongate. Green, whithh ove1· the dorsum, with addorsal, subdorsal and double lateral irregular, faint, whitish lines; sub,·entral fold diffu se ly yellow. Feet green, normal. T11bercles minute; ,;etaP y·ather long but fine, dusky. A brownish shade at the hase of the foot of joint 10. (llrown form.} I I ead with a large chocolate patch on each lobe shading into reticulations at the edge, leadng the clypeus mo,tly pale. Body milky chocolate, the s uln·e ntral fold broadly and diffusely yellow; dorsum and \"enter with several obscure darker lines. On the s ides of joints 2 to 4 and 10 to 11 and on joints 5 to y, forming nearly completely encircling

' bands are irregu lar dark chocolate mottlings. Tubercles chocolate, spiracles pale. The bands vary in extent and distinctness. Foot of joint I I chocolate; anal plate pale brown.

Pupation in the ground. Food plant. Cottonwood (Populus fre

montii tuislezeui); they will also eat willow. LarYae from Dem·er, Colorado. Eggs :\lay I Ith, mature larva June 7th.

Ecoxo~ne ExTo,lOLor;y,- Sanderson's In· sects injurious to staple crops (~ew York , John \\'iley and Sons, 190~) contains fifteen chapters denJted to Injury done Maple crops by insect pests. Structure and development of in sects, General farm practice against in· jurious insects, Beneficial inset:ts. In sects injuriou~ to gra in s and grasses, to wheat, to Indian corn, \\'ee,·il in grain, Insects injurious to c lo,·er, to cotton, to tobacco, to th e potato, to the sugar-beet, to the hop-plant, and Insecticides.

The text though compiled and not comprehensive will serve the purpose of the author fairly well ; a direct reference to a detailed account of each species would have been of real benefit. ;\lost of the illu strations ha,·e been used preYiously and the source is acknowledged though in some cases inadequately; the helpfulness of some of the original cuts (r. g. Figs. 4 and 5} may well be question ed.

PROCEEDI:\GS OF TilE CLllB.

8 ;\larch, Iyot. The 119th meeting was held at I 56 Brattle St., l\lr. S. I I. Scudder in the chair.

:\Jr. Samuel llen s ha\\- was unanimously elected a life member as a token of the Club's appreciation of his generosity.

l\lr. C.\\'. \\'onclworth remarked on oh,cr\"ation s he had made on Alcurudes citri, whi ch feeds o n the under side of the lea,·es of orange trees in Florida. l Je gave an interesting account of its anatomy and habits. Among other things he called attention to the curious arrangen1ent of the stigtnata and tracheae, owing to the extreme flatness of th e insect. li e aJ.,o stated that all the append· ages except the mouth organs are shed in

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early lar va l li fe, the insect becoming fastened to the leaf by n secre t io n . The oesophagus keeps n p a regular pulsation, rem indi ng one of that of the heart. Wings are de,·eloped in t he im agoes and they are locally known by the name of "whi te fl ie s."

l\lr. S. 1-1. Scudder s tated that he had rece n t ly hearJ from a co tTespo nde nt in Califo rni a that cave·cri ckets are injuri ous to m w;hrooms.

:'\lr. \Vooclwo r t h spoke of t he curi o us fl ig ht oi butt et·flie s of the gen us Coenonympha ,·e ry a bunda nt in Cnlifornin in the nutum n.

1~ Apri l, 190 1. The ~~oth m eet ing was he ld at 156 Brnttle St., l\lr. S. H. Scud<.ler in the cha ir . l\ l r . A. P. ;\ lorse ncted as Secretary.

Mr. Scudder rend a letter from 1\Jr. G. H.

J o h nson of Bradford, N. II. , a nnouncin g the capture of Enodia jor/lall(lia a t \ Yt>bster, N. H.; an d one from :lf r. fl. D. Goodale of Suffield, Conn., concerning a malformed Euvanessa antiopa, an e xample having been bred which entirely lacked the rig ht hind wing.

;\ l r. Scudder ann oun ced hi s recognition in the LT . S. orthopteran fauna of the ge n us l\ l iogryllu s Sauss., and showed fou r species from th e southem U nit ed State.,,

Prof. C. W. \\'ood won h exhibited drawin gs and mode ls illu st rating in a st riking and in gen ious manner the peculiarities in \'enatio n and wi ng ·fo ldin g of severa l ge nera of in sects be longing to t he F orficulidae, Blattidae and Staphylinidne.

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