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JANUARY 8, 1903. 



The 1 74th regular meeting was held at the residence of Dr. 

 H. G. Dyar, 1512 Twenty-first street, N.W. Dr. Dyar presided, 

 and Messrs. Schwarz, Benton, Kotinsky, Quaintance, Marlatt, 

 Heidemann, Barber, Caudell, Busck, Patten, Simpson, Hunter, 

 Hopkins, Gill, Banks, Warner, and Currie, members, and Messrs. 

 Hinds and Burke, visitors, were also present. 



The following officers were elected for the year 1903 : Presi 

 dent, Mr. D. W. Coquillett ; First Vice-President, Mr. Nathan 

 Banks; Second Vice-President, Dr. A. D. Hopkins; Recording 

 Secretary, Mr. Rolla P. Currie ; Corresponding Secretary, Mr. 

 Frank Benton; Treasurer, Mr. J. D. Patten. Additional mem 

 bers of the Executive Committee: Dr. H. G. Dyar, Dr. L. O. 

 Howard, and Mr. C. L. Marlatt. 



Mr. W. E. Hinds, Field Agent in the Division of Entomology, 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture, was elected a corresponding 

 member. 



The retiring President, Dr. Dyar, then delivered his annual 

 address, as follows : 



ANNUAL ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT. 



SOME RECENT WORK IN NORTH AMERICAN 

 LEPIDOPTERA. 



By HARRISON G. DYAR. 



Ten years ago the classification of the Lepidoptera stood 

 essentially as in the time of Linnaeus. In Smith's list of 1891 

 we still have the two large divisions into Rhopalocera and 

 Heterocera, the former corresponding to Linnaeus' Papilio, the lat 

 ter to his Sphinx and Phalaena. While the Sesiidaa and Syntomidas, 

 placed in Sphinx by Linnaeus, have been removed from that 

 group, they were still found immediately following it. Some 

 suggestions on right lines have been made from time to time, 

 such as that of Butler, who, many years ago, claimed a position 

 in the Tineids for the Sesiidae ; but such suggestions have not 

 been generally followed. 



