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Coleoptera. Mr. Kaeber said he had found four pupae at Upper 

 Darby, Pennsylvania, June 18, and one emerged on the 2Oth as Pyro- 

 chroa flabcllata Fabr. ; exhibited Glischrochihis confliicntns Say 

 from same place April 30, 1916. H. A. Wenzel exhibited O.ryponis 

 5-niacnlatiis LeC. from Delaware County, Pennsylvania, which he 

 collected on a very small species of fungus, O. stygicns Say same place, 

 June 4, from large species of fungus and Callimoxys sanguinicollis 

 Oliv., collected on hickory at Beechwood, Pennsylvania, June 4, by 

 H. W. Wenzel. 



Lepidoptera. Mr. Haimbach exhibited a box of about 100 moths 

 collected this year at Homebrook, Pennsylvania, and recorded the 

 following as interesting: Apantcsis figurata Drury, Homochlodes 

 fritillaria Guen., Plagodls fcrvidaria H.-S., P. alcoolaria Guen., 

 Cucullia philac Smith and Morrisonia scctilis Guen. var. t'omcrina 

 Grote. 



Hymenoptera and Strepsiptera. Geo. M. Greene exhibited a 

 wasp, Sphex sp? which he had collected at Miners Hill, back of East 

 Falls Church, Virginia, August 14, 1914, the abdomen of which con- 

 tained two examples of Strepsiptera. 



Adjourned to the annex. GEO. M. GREENE, Secretary. 



OBITUARY. 



Science for October 13, 1916, announces the death of AL- 

 BERT JOHN COOK on September 29. He was born in Owosso, 

 Michigan, August 30, 1842, and attended the Michigan Agri- 

 cultural College, from which he received the degrees of B. S. 

 in 1862, M. S. in 1864, and honorary Sc. D. in 1905, and where 

 he served as professor of zoology from 1866 to 1893. Re- 

 moving then to California, he was professor of biology at 

 Pomona College from 1894 to 1912 and State commissioner 

 of Horticulture for five years. He was an active worker in 

 economic entolomogy, both in Michigan and in California, and 

 contributed many brief articles on this subject to the bulletins 

 and reports of the Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station, 

 to various farming journals and, less frequently, to entomo- 

 logical periodicals. Lists of many of these papers may be 

 found in the various installments of the Bibliography of the 

 more important Contributions to American Economic f:ufo- 

 moloc/\i published from time to time by the "Bureau of Knto- 

 mology, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. He was also active in 

 apiculture. 



