Dec., '04] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 349 



Pacific Coast : ursi/ia, the usual brown form and a rare melanotic 

 form ; canina with its var. cooperi, and what he believed will 

 prove melanotic forms, cdivardsii and rat h von i. 



Mr. L- E. Ricksecker stated that he obtained a colony of 

 Ckariessa elcgans on white oak. Eight or ten specimens were 

 obtained from a dead but freshly cut tree. 



Dr. Blaisdell exhibited a series of Collops collected in Contra 

 Costa County, showing that the quadri-maculate forms are 

 extreme variations in the color marking of the wholly dark 

 elytral forms. And also a series of Lina showing that the 

 wholly black, with the var. conflnois are but color variations 

 of L. scripta. He stated that the specific term of Bembidium 

 continuum was preoccupied, having been applied to an Euro- 

 pean species, and in its place he proposed that the species be 

 known as Bembidium perconcinnum Blais. Mr. Roland Hay- 

 ward called his attention to the need of renaming the species. 



F. E. BLAISDELL, M. D., Secretary. 



Minutes of meetings of Brooklyn Entomological Society, 

 held at the residence of Mr. George Franck, 1040 DeKalb 

 Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



January 7, 1904. Nineteen persons present, the President 

 in the chair. The following were elected officers for the 

 ensuing year : John B. Smith, President ; Edward L. Graef, 

 Vice-President ; Christopher H. Roberts, Treasurer; Archi- 

 bald C. Weeks, Secretary ; Richard F. Pearsall, Librarian ; 

 George Franck, Curator ; R. Ellsworth Call and Edward G. 

 Love, members of Executive Committee, in conjunction with 

 above-named officers. 



Dr. Call reported that the Children's Museum of the 

 Brooklyn Institute had prepared exhibits, which would be 

 further extended showing the relations between plants and 

 insects so far as the cross fertilization and pollinization of the 

 former by the latter w r ere effected. 



Mr. Carl Schaeffer read a paper relating some of his col- 

 lecting experiences at Brownsville, Texas, during the past sea- 

 son. So many of the trees, shrubs and plants were equipped 



