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teroptera which extend well up into Arizona, and Mr. Ashmead 



also mentioned several tropical genera of Chalcidids which extend 

 up into Texas and Arizona. Dr. Gill said that the extension of 

 the range of a few genera northward in this way must not influ 

 ence our estimate of the character of the fauna as a whole. He 

 showed that several genera in other groups have this same exten 

 sion of range, the peccaries being a marked example. He showed, 

 further, that even in individual genera we have a distinction be 

 tween species living at low and high altitudes. He showed that 

 there is a low-living tapir, for example, and one which lives at 

 comparatively high altitudes. He further instanced the extension 

 of the jaguar and the armadillo, both tropical animals, into 

 Texas. Mi. Schwarz, referring to the Pachylis mentioned by 

 Mr. Uhler, said that in the larval condition this lives on mesquite, 

 and that the adults are attracted to the flowers of Yucca elata 

 and Y. macrocarpa in great numbers. They do not seem to be 

 injurious to the buds, as the flowers open without evidence of 

 damage, though they have been visited by the bugs for many days. 



DECEMBER i, 1898. 



The 1 39th regular meeting was held at the residence of C. L. 

 Marlatt, 1440 Massachusetts avenue. Vice-President Dr. Gill 

 in the chair, and Messrs. Judd, Chapin, Dyar, Cook, Caudell, 

 Busck, Ashmead, Patten, Motter, Matthis, Schwarz, Heidemann, 

 Benton, Howard, Marlatt, Vaughan, Johnson, Sherman, active 

 members, and A. D. Hopkins, corresponding member, also 

 present. 



Under the head of " Election of Officers," all of the officers 

 serving during 1898 were re-elected for the year 1899. E. D wight 

 Sanderson, of College Park, Maryland, was elected an active 

 member. 



Under the head of " Exhibition of Specimens and Short 

 Notes," Mr. Schwarz spoke of the Scolytidae of Arizona, show 

 ing that 32 species had- been collected in southern Arizona by 

 Mr. Hubbard and himself. In his opinion these constituted a 

 fair representation of the Scolytid fauna of the southern portion 

 of the State, although there will probably be other forms inhabit- 



