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was read, in which he stated there was a balance on hand of 

 $1,262.97. Mr. E. T. Cresson, Jr., was elected a member. 

 The following were elected officers to serve for the coming 

 year: President, Philip P. Calvert ; Vice-President, H. \V. 

 Wenzel ; Treasurer, E. T. Cresson ; Recording Secretary, 

 Henry Skinner ; Corres. Secty., Frank Haimbach ; Curator, 

 Henry Skinner : Librarian, E. T. Cresson, Jr. Publication 

 Committee : E. T. Cresson, C. F. Seiss, B. H. Smith. Execu- 

 tive Committee : P. Laurent, H. W. Wenzel, Frank Haim- 

 bach. Finance Committee: J. W. McAllister, C. S. Welles, 

 D. M. Castle. HENRY SKINNER, Secretary. 



A meeting of the American Entomological Society was held 

 Feb. 15, 1906, Mr. H. W. Wenzel, Vice- Director, presiding. 

 Nine persons were present. The annual report of the Curator 

 was read. Mr. Laurent said he had first used chip fruit bas- 

 kets for shipping insects about fifteen years ago, and spoke of 

 their value for this purpose. Since that time they had been 

 used more or less by entomologists. 



HENRY SKINNER, Secretary. 



At the meeting of the Feldman Collecting Social, held Feb- 

 ruary 26, 1906, at the residence of Mr. H. W. Wenzel, 1523 

 So. 1 3th St., Philadelphia. Eight persons were present. Mr. 

 Carl Schaeffer, visitor. A letter from Dr. Dyar was read, in 

 which he states that Pamphila manataaqua and cernes are con- 

 generic. Mr. H. Wenzel read a very interesting note on 

 Omus from a letter which he had received from Mr. Ralph 

 Hopping, of Kaweah, Calif. The writer says " I take O. in- 

 tcrmedius in one place only (Colony Road, Tulare Co., Calif.), 

 3,500 to 4,500 ft. ; O. sublaevis in pine forest, 5,000 to 7,000 

 ft. The smooth form O. laevis occurs 8,000 to 10,000 ft. in 

 my locality, but I have never had the luck to find it. Dr. 

 Walther Horn's elevations for this form are incorrect. The 

 collector unintentionally misinformed him. I went to a great 

 deal of trouble to prove these elevations. The collector suit 

 me a map marking the exact location, and from my intimate 

 knowledge of the trails in the Sierras I was able to place the 



