600 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [Dec. 



The officers elected for the year 1912 are as follows: 



Director J. Cheston Morris, M.D. 



Vice-Director T. Chalkley Palmer. 



Recorder Charles S. Boyer. 



Treasurer Thomas S. Stewart, M.D. 



Corresponding Secretary Silas L. Schumo. 



Conservator F. J. Keeley. 



Charles S. Boyer, 



Recorder. 



Entomological Section. 



The usual meetings of the Section have been held and the com- 

 munications made have been published in Entomological News. 



During the year 8,398 specimens of insects have been added to 

 the collection, and a considerable part of this number have been 

 incorporated with the various sections of the cabinet. Sixteen tin 

 cases have been purchased, fifty glass-covered boxes, and 201 Schmidt 

 boxes. 



The determination of the Diptera is being continued and several 

 lots sent in by collectors have contained species that were new to the 

 cabinet. These additions have in some cases necessitated the 

 rearrangement of families. The collection of southwestern Hemip- 

 tera determined by Mr. E. P. Van Duzee last year is being incor- 

 porated into the general collection. In the Orthoptera a large 

 amount of work has been done on African material; the North 

 American series has been rearranged and the exotic collections as 

 far as determined. 



The Bruner collection of Orthoptera, containing 22,000 specimens 

 and 600 types, purchased by Mr. Morgan Hebard, has been deposited. 



When the new rooms for the department are completed .Mr. 

 Hebard' will also place on deposit his own large collection of these 

 insects. 



In the order Hymenoptera the family Microgasterinse has been 

 rearranged. 



The Micro-lepidoptera have all been mounted preparatory to the 

 rearrangement of these moths. 



The F. E. Bond Collection made in Venezuela by Prof. Stewardson 

 Brown,; contained over a thousand specimens. These, as well as 

 the material collected in southern Texas by Henry A. Wenzel, have 

 been mounted. 



