10 ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



Dr. Dyar stated that there were 15,700 specimens in the 

 Hofrnann collection of Lepidoptera recently purchased by the 

 National Museum. Of these, over 9,000 were Tineids, beauti 

 fully mounted. This collection, entirely European, includes 

 nearly all the species listed in Staudinger's catalogue as European. 



MARCH 7, 1901. 



The 1 59th regular meeting was held at the residence of Mr. 

 Win. H. Ash mead, 1825 Q_ street N.W. President Dyar oc 

 cupied the chair, and there were also present Messrs. Heidemann, 

 Benton, Ashmead, Gill, Howard, Vaughan, Currie, Hay, Ko- 

 tinsky. Barber and Hunter. 



The committee on resolutions regarding the late Baron de 

 Selys-Longchamps reported these resolutions drawn up ready 

 to be sent. 



Under Short Notes and Exhibition of Specimens, Mr. Kotin- 

 sky showed specimens of the scale insect Aspidiotus smilacis 

 Comstock on the underground stems of smilax. They were col 

 lected at St. Elmo, Virginia, by Mr. F. C. Pratt, on the 6th of 

 March. 



Dr. Gill, referring to Baron Selys, and in illustration of the 

 latter's versatility, mentioned the work done by him about fifty 

 years ago on birds and mammals. 



Mr. Hunter, upon invitation from the Chair, made a few 

 remarks on western entomologists, spoke of their isolation from 

 one another, and told of some of the work being done by them. 

 He also, as a note, reported having received from Prof. C. A. 

 Hart, of the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History, nine 

 specimens of the Syrphid fly Merodon equestris Fabricius, col 

 lected in a green-house at Urbana, Illinois. They belong to a 

 European species and genus, which, he thought, had not previ 

 ously been recorded from the United States.* The larvae work in 

 the bulbs of the Narcissus lily. 



Mr. Benton presented a translation made by him from the 

 original Italian of an article entitled : " On the Theory of Par- 



* This species has been recorded at points on the Atlantic coast, but not 

 previously from the interior. Publication Committee. 



