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specialized food habits requiring a long beak, but was merely 

 the following out of a dominant tendency to modification along 

 this line without any apparent necessity therefor; in other 

 words, it may not be an adaptive character. Mr. Schwarz 

 asked Doctor Hopkins whether he considered the Brenthidse 

 and Anthribidse as belonging to the Rhynchophora. Doctor 

 Hopkins replied that he was uncertain as to the position of the 

 Brenthidae, but the Anthribidse certainly did not belong to the 

 Rhynchophora. 



NOVEMBER i, 1906. 



The 2o8th regular meeting was held at the Ssengerbund Hall, 

 314 C street, N. W. President Banks presided and the follow 

 ing persons were present : Messrs. Banks, Barrett, Busck, Cur- 

 rie, Dyar, Heidemann, Hopkins, Knab, Morris, Patten, Quaint- 

 ance, Sasscer, Schwarz, Ulke, and Webster, members, and 

 Messrs. C. N. Ainslie and David E. Lantz, visitors. The 

 minutes of the October meeting were read and approved. The 

 Treasurer presented a brief report. The Executive Committee 

 reported that they had elected Mr. E. A. Schwarz as Editor 

 and Dr. Harrison G. Dyar as Assistant Editor. At a later 

 meeting they had decided that the election of these editors was 

 not to change the status nor functions of the Publication Com 

 mittee holding office at the present time. 



Prof. E. F. Hitchings, State entomologist, Waterville, Maine, 

 and Rev. James Hansen, St. John's University, Collegeville, 

 Minn., were elected to corresponding membership. 



Mr. Quaintance exhibited some masses of larval cocoons of 

 the codling moth (Carpocapsa pomonella L.), taken from the 

 floor of an apple storage room in southeastern Nebraska. He 

 stated that the cracks in the boards of the floor were infested 

 with thousands of these cocoons made by the hibernating larvae. 

 This illustrated in a striking manner the importance of screen 

 ing the buildings in which apples are stored, so that the moths 

 emerging in the spring can not escape to the orchards. 



Mr. Busck exhibited two California species of the tortricid 

 genus Hendecaneura Walsingham. This genus was erected 



