Transactions of the American Entomological Society, Volume 1

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Pagina iii - In the Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace for the City and County of Philadelphia. March Sessions, 1882. CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA, ss...
Pagina 219 - S. pomum found on Salix cordata and very rarely on S. discolor. A smooth, fleshy, sessile, globulur or slightly oval monothalamous gall, like a minature apple, 0.30 — .55 inch diameter, growing on one side of the midrib of a leaf, and extending to its edge or beyond it. The principal part of the gall projects from the under side of the leaf; very rarely it is bisected by the leaf. Color greenish-yellow, sometimes with a rosy cheek, especially the upper surface, and often with little THAXS.
Pagina 212 - ... burrows into the ground within a period of eight days. It remains thirteen days in the ground, being most of the time in the pupa state, while the fly lives nine days. The first brood of worms appeared May 21, the second brood June 25.
Pagina xv - ... yet the books are not available, as the catalogue has not been made. The Cambridge entomological club allows subscribers to Psyche the use of its library under certain restrictions, — a library containing about a thousand titles. On the other hand, the American entomological society provides that " no books presented to the society shall be loaned from the hall under any pretence or for any purpose whatsoever.
Pagina 5 - British Entomology. Containing a Familiar and Technical Description of the Insects most common to the localities of the British Isles. By MARIA E. CATLOW. With 16 pages of Coloured Plates. Cloth, 5*.
Pagina viii - OFFICERS. 1. There shall be a President, a Vice-President, a Corresponding Secretary, a Recording Secretary, a Treasurer, and a Librarian, which officers shall be annually elected, by written votes, at the Annual Meeting, on the day next preceding the last Wednesday in May. 2. At the same time and in the same manner, nine Councillors...
Pagina xi - All propositions for resident membership must be made at. a stated meeting, and be balloted for at tbe next stated meeting, when the affirmative votes of three fourths of the members present shall be necessary to elect a candidate. ART. II. — All propositions for admission into the Society as corresponding members must be made in writing, by two members, at a stated meeting, and be balloted...
Pagina 204 - Orbits all round whitish ; white line or spot before the wings with about three obsolete black spots before ; feet white, thighs black in the middle, posterior tarsi blackish ; tergum black, the bands obsolete ; venter white, anal segment blackish.
Pagina 6 - Curious facts in the history of insects; including spiders and scorpions. A complete collection of the legends, superstitions, beliefs, and ominous signs connected with insects; together with their uses in medicine, art, and as food; and a summary of their remarkable injuries and appearances.
Pagina 82 - Internally, instead of the normal downy embryo leaves, it contains early in the autumn a homogeneous, grassgreen, fleshy matter, which is afterwards gradually consumed by the larva, leaving nothing at last but a mere shell, as thin as paper, and partly filled with excrement.

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