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Mr. Laurent exhibited Cicindela sexguttaia Fabr. with one, 

 two, four, five, six and eight spots; said if great series were 

 taken it would be found without spots. Mr. \Yenzel, Sr., 

 read extracts from Leng's monograph to show that the im- 

 maculate form of this species is not var. violacea Fabr. 



Mr. C. T. Greene reported the capture of a rather rare 

 Dipteron : Rhyphus alternates Say, of which several speci- 

 mens were taken on windows in the city by George M. Greene, 

 March i8th. 



Mr. Wenzel, Sr., exhibited several boxes of Coleoptera 

 comprising his collection of Hispinids of over a thousand 

 specimens all cleaned and remounted. 



Mr. George M. Greene exhibited two pairs of Plectrodera 

 scalator Fabr. (Col.) from Sedgwick County, Kan., July 3, 

 1911, collected by J. C. Warren, and also a tick found on the 

 under side of a beetle Tinotns carolinus Linn, collected by A. 

 Schmidt, Frankford, Pa., August 15. 



Adjourned to the annex. 



Meeting of April r/th, 1912, at 1523 South Thirteenth 

 Street, Philadelphia. Twelve members were present; President 

 Haimbach in the chair. 



Prof. Calvert exhibited a pair (male and homoeochromatic 

 female) of Erythrodipla.r berenice berenice Drury (Odon.) 

 from Fernandina, Fla., September 11, 1909, by Prof. J. Ches- 

 ter Bradley. They formed part of a collection of eleven 

 specimens of this species from this locality, Apalachicola, Fla., 

 and St. Simon's Islands, Ga., all by Dr. Bradley, which the 

 speaker had recently examined, thanks to Prof. Needham. 

 The venational features of all eleven had been tabulated and 

 the resulting numbers of cells are intermediate between the 

 more densely veined berenice berenice of the more northern 

 States and the berenice nacva of southern Florida, the West 

 Indies and Central America, as given in Biologia Centrali- 

 Americana, Neuroptera, p. 268. No examples from northern 

 Florida or southern Georgia had been recorded or tabulated 

 previously. 



He also exhibited a male each of Enallagma durum Hagen 

 and of . aspcrsum Hagen (Odon.) from a brickyard pond 



