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were given by various members. Mr. Martin had collected in 

 Germany and taken many Lepidoptera and Coleoptera ; Mr. 

 Engelhardt, at Hudson, N. Y., Hymenoptera ; Mr. Franck, 

 at Beaver Brook, Sullivan Co., N. Y., where he had tested a 

 new lamp and taken many specimens ; Mr. Richardson, on 

 Staten Island and at Cape Cod. In both localities he had 

 found Sphccius speciosus very numerous, had observed its hab- 

 its and taken many specimens. He also observed a species 

 of Sphcx alight upon a spider's web and feign to be crippled 

 and exhausted. When the spider approached to inspect her 

 supposed prey the wasp pounced upon her. Mr. Weeks related 

 a similar incident which he had seen. Mr. Schaeffer reported 

 the capture of Monedula Carolina on Staten Island. This in- 

 sect occurs frequently in the South but rarely here. Mr. 

 Barber visited Cold Spring Harbor, L,. I., and spent three 

 months at Mount Katahdin, where he took some Elateridse 

 and Buprestidae, but few L,epidoptera on account of the wet 

 and cold. Mr. Doll, in the Catskill and Adirondack Moun- 

 tains. Among the Coleoptera taken in the Catskiil Mountains 

 were Sapcrda calcarata, var. adspersa. Of L,epidoptera, three 

 specimens of P. leonardus. Mr. Watson, at Jamesburg, in 

 August, reported the occurrence of this butterfly there in 

 numbers. Mr. Goeben, at Callicoon, Sullivan Co., N. Y., 

 and Mr. Pearsall, in Ulster Co., N. Y., found collecting rather 

 meagre. Mr. Weeks, at Brooklyn, reported that he had 

 sugared continuously throughout the season and made short 

 trips to the suburbs. He had taken many specimens of all 

 orders. Catocala were comparatively rare, due probably to 

 the severe sleet storm in the latter part of the winter, which 

 had dislodged and destroyed the ova. 



ARCHIBALD C. WEEKS, Secretary. 



Dr. Hans Herman Behr. 



Dr. Hans Herman Behr, physician, scientist, author, poet, 

 humorist and savant, is no more, and the world of science and 

 letters must mourn the departure of one of its brightest lights. 

 He died Monday, March 6, at n o'clock, at his residence, 



