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Calvert differed radically from that of LeConte and Horn, and 

 would require much study before an intelligent opinion could 

 be passed on it. HENRY SKINNER, Secretary. 



Minutes of meetings of Brooklyn Entomological Society, 

 Brooklyn, N. Y. 



May 8, 1902. Twenty-four persons present. Prof. John 

 B. Smith in the chair. 



Mr. Gustav Beyer exhibited a fine series of Coleoptera taken 

 by him in Southern California, embracing Acantkoderes, Alal- 

 lodon, Trichodesma, Acm&odera, Hololepta and Brent/ins, the 

 majority of which he had bred from larvae as described in the 

 minutes of the last meeting. 



Prof. Smith exhibited small elm twigs showing borings 

 made by the larvae of Anthaxia viridicornis and Neoclytus ery- 

 throcephalus, collected after the severe sleet storm in the latter 

 part of the winter, and stated that many specimens of these 

 beetles had thus been obtained, with some half dozen others, 

 including Saperda tridentata. He recommended this method 

 as productive of excellent results. 



Mr. Ernest Shoemaker exhibited his large water-color paint- 

 ing of L,epidoptera, containing drawings of sixty-five specially 

 selected and rare native and exotic species. The labor con- 

 nected therewith had occupied him about 1600 hours during 

 the past five years, and he gave some data as to the special 

 work upon certain specimens. Mr. Shoemaker's production 

 was greatly admired, not only for the beauty and arrangement 

 of the insects, but also for its accuracy. 



Jitney, 1902. Twenty-one persons present. Professor John 

 B. Smith, president, in the chair. A committee of three was 

 appointed to consider the question of reprinting or revising 

 " Explanation of Terms used in Entomology." 



Mr. Weeks spoke on the subject of ' Duration in Pupal 

 Stage by Hibernation and ^Estivation," and among other 

 examples cited that of a pupa of Acronycta amcricana, which 

 he had found under a decayed board on Long Island in the 

 spring of 1901 (pupation had undoubtedly occurred in the fall 

 of 1900), and which at the date of the meeting was still in 

 a pupal condition and alive. (The moth emerged on June 8, 



