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Suapure, Caura Valley, Venezuela, July 5, 1899. 



Type. Collected by the author and forming part of his 

 collection. 



Named in memory of my brother, Frederick W. Klages, a 

 who died Mar. 28, 1886, at the age of 27 years. 



The specimen above described is seemingly a small female. 

 The head has the rudiments of a horn and the thorax has a 

 transverse ridge near the front margin. Analogous processes 

 are observable in small females of certain species of the genus 

 Phangeus, to which this is very closely related. 



DECEMBER 6, 1906. 



The 2O9th regular meeting was held at the residence of 

 Dr. C. W. Stiles, 1412 Hopkins street, N. W. President 

 Banks occupied the chair and the following persons were pres 

 ent: Messrs. Banks, Barber, Burke, Busck, Caudell, Currie, 

 Davis, Dyar, Fiske, Gill, Heidemann, Hopkins, Howard, John 

 son, Knab, Marlatt, E. F. Phillips, Reeves, Sasscer, Stiles, 

 Titus, and Webb, members, and Messrs. C. E. Burden, C. B. 

 Dyar, Dudley Moulton, and Dr. Reid Hunt, visitors. 



Officers for the ensuing year were elected as follows : Presi 

 dent, A. D. Hopkins; First Vice-President, O. Heidemann; 

 Second Vice-President, E. A. Schwarz; Recording Secretary, 

 W. F. Fiske; Corresponding Secretary, J. G. Sanders; Treas 

 urer, J. D. Patten; members of the Executive Committee, in 

 addition to the officers, Harrison G. Dyar, L. O. Howard, and 

 C. L. Marlatt. Dr. A. D. Hopkins was nominated to repre 

 sent the Entomological Society of Washington as a vice-presi 

 dent of the Washington Academy of Sciences. 



Mr. Webb exhibited a rare cerambycid beetle, Brothyhis 

 conspersus Lee., collected by Mr. H. E. Burke in the Yosemite 

 National Park, Cal., the past season. 



a Fred. W. Klages was the first naturalist of the family and one of 

 the pioneer entomologists of western Pennsylvania. He collected in 

 the South and in Jamaica and rediscovered and made known the habitat 

 of the hitherto exceedingly rare butterfly, Papilio homerus Fab. The 

 late Dr. John Hamilton, in his " Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South 

 western Pennsylvania," gave his name as " William," an error until 

 now uncorrected. 



