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mar.gin of the scale. tipped with yellow, sone distance within the Brown, of the general type of the genus. Five groups of circumgenital glands caudolaterals of 6 to 8, cephalolaterals about 20, median seven. Plates and lobes much as in P. lbarlatorioides; the two projections between the median lobes are longer than the lobes, and subparallel; the median lobes are rounded at the ends, and their sloping sides if produced to a point would form about a right angle, the subbasal notches of parlatorioides are wanting; the other lobes etc., correspond closely with those of barlalorioides. The sides of the segments before the hindmost portion are curiously produced, the outlines of the produced portions rather resembling that of a human nose. ttab. On leaves of a forest tree, Campinas, Brazil, Jan., x898. Collected by Dr. Fritz Noack, phytopathologist of the Instituto Agronomico do Estado de S. Paulo. It is a distinc.t species, easily recognized by the scale. The exuviae are sometimes quite green, and the scale may be snow white except in the centre. The scales mostly occur along the midrib on the under side of the leaf. Mytilaspis erlonga, n. sp. scale long and narrow, 3 1-2 mm. long, hardly ram. wide, convex, straight, very pale 0chreous, exuviae shining apricot color, mu.ch smaller. with a rather coppery tint, first skin exposed, second covered, c scale similar but Orange brown; median lobes fairly large but no much produced, their outline about that of a half-circle, the interval between them about as wide as the diameter of one; second lobes very broad and low; third a little more elevated than the second, and divided into two or three lobules; fourth replaced by some irregular serration of the margin, The true spines are rather small, and quite ordinary; but the spine-like glandhairs are extremely large, quite stout, ex.
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE CLUB.
x March, 898. The 2ooth meeting of the
club was held at 56 Brattle St., Mr. J. W.
Folsom in the chair.
Mr. A. P. Morse of Welle,ley, Mass., was
elected president for 898.
Mr. W. F. Fiske of Durham, N. H., was
elected a member.
Mr. A. G. Mayer said that during a stay in
the Figi Islands from November 6 to
January 13, he devoted some time to collecting,
insects. Among Lepidoptera one finds
several species of Euploeans that seem to be
identical with Australian forms. There is
one Papilio that is evidently a Qeensland
species, and also a Terias that is extremely
common. :t is probable that all of these
butterflies existed upon the islands before
the advent of white men.
The distribution of Anosia plexippus is
peculiar. It is very common at Suva,
Levuka, Loma loma, and Kadavu Isd, and
in fact, seems to exist upon those islands
where white men live. On many of the
islands inhabited exclusively by natives it
apparently does not exist. It is probable
that this insect has been introduced into the
group within recent years and has not yet
reached .many of the remote islands.
species of Asclepias was found upon some of
the islands where this butterfly is common.
It is probable that it has been carried by
commerce from island to island, and as there
is but little commerce with islands inhabited
exclusively by natives the butterfly has not
reached them. Among moths, a species of
Utetheisa allied to out" g_f. bella was common
upon the sandy atols, although it does not
exist upofl the high rocky islands. A
Macrosila and a hummingbird sphinx were also
comlYlon.
Beetles were well represented by a number
of weevils, Buprestids and Carabidae. There
were also a few Staphylinidae, Elateridae and
Cerambycidae. A species of Cicindela was
very common along the roads near Suva.
Hemipterous insects ar remarkably
common and are represented by many species of
Corisiae. There are also several species of
Cicadellina, and a C.icada. A species of
Hylobates is common upon the calm waters
of bays and estuaries.
Orthoptera were common but seemed to
be represented by but a few species.
Grasshoppers of several species were found upon
all of the islands. Walkingstick insects
(Phasmida) were represented by several
species, one of which was about twelve inches
long. Others possessed wings and were
smaller. The leaf insect Pkyllt’um lobiventre
is common upon the leaves of the guava but
it resembles the leaves so closely that it is
extremely difficult to find. These insects are
usually green in color and the broad flat fore
wings are veined and colored so as to resemble
almost,exactly the leaves over which the insect
crawls. Some individuals instead of being
green are brown, like a withered leaf, and
others are bright yellow, or yellow streaked
with brown. Their individual variability is
most remarkable. These insects are said to
be nocturnal in their habits and certainly the
best time in which to collect them is very
early in the morning, just before sunrise.
Neuropte-a were rare.
The insect fauna of the group is undergoing
a change owing to the introduction of ma (...truncated)