PROCEEDINGS. 
APRIL 3, 1884. 
Fourteen persons present. President Riley in the chair. 
A letter from Professor Baird was read granting the use of the 
council-room of the U. S. National Museum for the meetings of 
the Society. 
Mr. Schwarz exhibited specimens of >uedius vernix Lee. and 
Q.fervx Lee. and called attention to a character, hitherto over- 
looked, of these two species, viz : the presence of an onychial 
seta, which is simple in the latter and double in the former 
species. 
Dr. Barnard remarked on the hibernation of the Elm-tree 
Leaf-beetle ( Galeruca xanthomelcena) on the grounds of the 
Agricultural Department, great numbers of the beetle having 
sought shelter in the crevices of telegraph poles near the infested 
trees. Under these circumstances he advocates the killing of the 
beetles in winter time. 
Prof. Riley read a short communication by Mr. Fred Gates, of 
England, relating to an incident of the early life of the late 
Prof. Townend Glover. Mr. Dodge promised to give at some 
future meeting some other communications on the life of Prof. 
Glover. 
Mr. Murdoch read a paper, of which the following is an 
abstract : 
INSECT-COLLECTING AT POINT BARROW, ARCTIC ALASKA. Much could 
not be done in the way of collecting insects, as the snow did not melt till 
the middle of June, and freezing began pretty permanently by Sept. ist. 
Besides, the time of the party was occupied by other observations of all sorts, 
and insect-collecting could only be followed incidentally. The country is a 
tolerably level marshy plain, interspersed with innumerable lakes and 
small ponds, and scantily covered with grass and flowering plants. A 
complete beetle was found in the stomach of a newly-arrived Lapland 
Longspur on May 2oth, and a hairy caterpillar was found crawling on the 
snow May 23d. Flies resembling the common house-fly were also seen 
crawling on the snow at the same date. Dipterous larvse were also very 
