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melanurus F. x Synaptus filifortnis L. ; Strophosomus coryli F. x 

 Chrysomela (Orina) cacalinc Schr. ; Hypera pollgoni L. x Coccinclla 

 bipunctata L. ; Telcphorus melanurus F. x Athous niger L. ; Donacia 

 simplex F. x Opoderus coryli L. ; Coccinclla x Chrysomela; Ocncria 

 dispar L. x Picris brassicae L. ; Hibernia marginaria Bkh. x Orrhodla 

 raccinii L. 



II. The mating of two males with one another: Alclolontha rul- 

 garis x M. vulgaris; Melolontha vulgaris x 7l/\ hippocastani. Tele- 

 phones melanurus x Lampyris noctiluca. Sadeau differentiates the two 

 cases as follows : pcderastic par ncccssitc and pcderastic par gout. 



III. The mating of several males with one female: Dyctyoptera 

 sanguined 5 males x one female ; Tortrix viridana male and at the 

 same time Tortrix hcpara male x Tortrix viridan-a female; Cerocoma 

 sp. 4 males x i female. 



In conclusion Jakobson brings out the following two points : 



I. It is taking a risk to describe a new species from two specimens 

 taken in copulation as male and female of one species. They may be 

 two males of different species. 



II. You cannot unite male and female of a pair taken in copulation 

 as belonging to one species as the male may be one and the female an- 

 other species. 



Adjourned to the annex. 



Meeting of February 21, 1917, at the home of Wrn. S. Huntington, 

 1910 North 2ist Street, Philadelphia; twelve members and four visi- 

 tors present. President H. A. Wenzel in the chair. 



Lepidoptera. Mr. Daecke exhibited Pamphila huron Edw. which 

 he collected at Rockville, Pennsylvania, September 30, 1916. Said that 

 while at Progress, Pennsylvania, on June 9, 1916, he had noticed some 

 dried currants which were infested. He took these home and on 

 June 30 Eulia trifcrana Wlk. emerged. He cannot find record that 

 they attack currants, but they are known to feed on various things, 

 mainly huckleberries. 



Coleoptera. Mr. Geo. M. Greene exhibited a specimen of Gcotrupes 

 (Cncmotrupcs) ulkei Blanchard found dead in woods by Mr. Morgan 

 Hebard at Bald Knob, Bath County, Virginia, August 14, 1916. The 

 specimen is minus the head and of three specimens in the Horn Col- 

 lection, labelled "N. C. Merkel," two are in the same condition and 

 the third perfect. This species was described in Psyche V, pp. 106-110, 

 1888. Type locality Virginia in fungi. Called attention to an article 

 in Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. IV, p. 497, July, 1901, "The Ant-decapitating 

 Fly," by Theodore Pergande, in which is described Apoccphalns pcr- 

 gandei Coquillett, a fly which decapitated Camt>onotus pennsylvanicus 

 De Geer and afterwards bred from the bead. 



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



