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running through the center in which was fitted a retaining bar 

 with rabbeted edges lapping over the interior edges of the 

 cards and holding them in place while the bar itself was 

 adjusted and fastened by fitting one end in a slot and the other 

 end by a thumb-spring which permitted the bar to pass below 

 it and then resumed its normal position. The outer and exte- 

 rior edges of the cards were inserted and held in place under a 

 thin strip on cleat tacked along the sides at a sufficient distance 

 from the bottom of the case to permit the ready insertion of the 

 cards. 



The specimens were glued upon cards upon which any 

 descriptive notes could be written. The boxes exhibited were 

 about 9 inches square by 2^ inches deep and specimens of 

 nearly the aggregate depth of the top and bottom could be 

 accommodated by placing them opposite smaller ones. 



Mr. Weeks read a communication which appeared in the 

 New York Evening Telegram of September 4, 1903, entitled 

 " At Last a Caterpillar for the Ailanthus Tree," by which it 

 appeared that the writer had for the first time recently seen 

 the larvae of Philosamia cynthia in New York City, and Mr. 

 Week's reply thereto narrating the introduction of the moth in 

 this locality many years ago through the agency of the late 

 John Akhurst of Brooklyn. 



December j, 1903. Seventeen persons present, the President 

 in the chair. Mr. Engelhardt read an account of his trip 

 through the southern part of Virginia during August with a 

 single companion. Starting at Norfolk he visited Richmond, 

 the Natural Bridge, the Peaks of Otter and Apple Orchard 

 Mountains in the Blue Ridge, returning to Norfolk from 

 Bedford City by train. Although collecting was not the object 

 of his trip, he, nevertheless, secured many specimens embrac- 

 ing all orders, some of which he exhibited and which proved of 

 much interest as showing to what extent the insect faunas of 

 New York, New Jersey and Virginia were identical. More 

 than two-thirds of the species are recorded within fifty miles 

 of New York City, in varying degrees of rarity. 



ARCHIBALD C. WEEKS, 



Secretary. 



