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stigmal plates are very coarsely punctate, while in Dermacentor 

 electus they are very finely punctate. 



The paper contains analytical keys to all of the known species 

 of ticks. 



The paper was discussed by Messrs. Schwarz, Ash mead, 

 Howard, and Gill. Dr. Stiles also mentioned the curious resting 

 stage of the ear tick Ornithodoros mcgnini, with figures illus 

 trating it. It had, he said, once been described by an entomolo 

 gist as an egg. Dr. Howard said that it resembled exactly the 

 hypopus stage of Tyroglyphid mites. 



JANUARY 9, 1902. 



The i65th regular meeting was held at the residence of Dr. H. 

 G. Dyar, 1512 Twenty- first street N.W. The President, Dr. Dyar, 

 occupied the chair, and there were also present Messrs. Simpson, 

 Benton, Patten, Morris, Ashmead, Mann, Pollard, Hay, Barber, 

 Caudell, Hunter, Kotinsky, Gill and Currie. Dr. Dyar was 

 elected Vice-President of the Washington Academy of Sciences 

 for the Entomological Society of Washington. 



President Dyar then delivered his annual address, as follows : 



ANNUAL ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT. 



THE COLLECTION OF LEPIDOPTERA IN THE NATIONAL 



MUSEUM. 



By HARRISON G. DYAR. 



I would ask your attention to the collection of Lepidoptera in 

 the United States National Museum. It has been frequently 

 pointed out in the annual reports of the Smithsonian Institution 

 that it was eminently desirable that the United States Govern 

 ment should possess as complete a scientific collection as could 

 be made, worthy of this large and prosperous country. Not 

 insignificant in such a collection would come the insects, both 

 from their relative abundance in species and the great economic 

 importance of many of them. The order Lepidoptera forms a 

 considerable part of the aggregate, and to the history and present 



