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Meeting of January 22, 1920. Six members and contributors and one 

 visitor present. Vice-director, R. C. Williams presiding. Mr. A. B. 

 Hiedemann was elected a contributor. 



Lepidoptera. Mr. Williams exhibited a box of butterflies, being some 

 curious aberrations of Catopsilia agaritlie, Zercne cacsonia, Argviinis 

 hiilryone, Melitaea nubigena, quino, andfulvia, Plebeius saepiolus, Cyaniris 

 nr plains echo, Everes corny ntas, II codes hello-ides, and hypophlaeas. He 

 also spoke about collecting in Connecticut, especially of the irregular 

 appearance of some species, stating that he considered it impossible to 

 plot the distribution of species by collecting in a single season. 



Diptera. Mr. Cresson made some remarks on a new Trypetid in- 

 jurious to the English walnut in Arizona. 



Orthoptera. Mr. Rehn exhibited and made some interesting remarks 

 on some Orthoptera of the southwestern portions of the United States. 

 He took some exceptions to Mr. Williams' remarks on collecting, stating 

 that by expert and constant collecting in one season, a good representa- 

 tive collection of the orthopterous species can be secured. 



E. T. CRESSON, JR., Recorder. 



Obituary 



An obituary notice of WILBUR Ross McCoNNELL, Assistant 

 Professor of Zoology and Entomology at the Pennsylvania 

 State College from 1907 to 1912, and subsequently connected 

 with the Federal Bureau of Entomology, appears in the 

 Journal of Economic Entomology for August, 1920. He was 

 born at Whitesburg, Pennsylvania, in 1881, and died at Car- 

 lisle in the same state, June 23, 1920, and had paid much at- 

 tention to the parasites of the Hessian fly. 



The Bulletin of the Entomological Society of France (1920, 

 No. 10) announces the death of J. R. SAHLBERG at Helsing- 

 fors, Finland, on May 8, 1920, aged 80 years. He published 

 on the Coleoptera and Hemiptera of Finland and on ento- 

 mological collections, especially of Coleoptera, which he had 

 made in conjunction with his son, U. Sallas, along the eastern 

 and southern Mediterranean. His father and grandfather 

 also w r ere well-known entomologists. Since this note was 

 written, an obituary notice has appeared in Science for Sept. 

 3, 1920, giving his age as 75. 



An obituary notice of JOSEPH PAVIKL, whose death was 

 mentioned in the \K\YS for July last, page 210, is ;ic(vs>iMr 

 in Science for Sept. 17, 1920. 



