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pantheria deftorata, Fabr., Halisidota caryae Harr., Apatela funeralis 

 Grote, Metathorasa monctifera Gn., Hypsorophia hormos Hiibner, Ptu- 

 siodonta compressipalpis Gn., Tarache delecta Walk., Euthisanotia 

 grata Fabr., Phiprosopus callitrichoides Grote, Achatodes zeae Harr., 

 Remigia repanda Fabr., Lophodonta angulosa S. & A., Schisura badia 

 Pack., Fentonia marthesia Cram., lanassa lignicolor Walk., Tolype vel- 

 lida Stoll, Tolype laricis Fitch, Datana pcrsplcua G. & R. and Harpyin 

 borealis Bov. With the exception of Tarache delecta the specimens ex- 

 hibited were all taken at upper Roxborough, Philadelphia, and all these 

 and many other pretty species have been comparatively common on 

 and about his place. The specimens of Tarache delecta he caught at 

 Cape May Point, New Jersey, in the cat tail swamps on July 26, 1914. 

 The speaker also reported the capture of one specimen of Melipotis ni- 

 grcsccns G. & R. on July 3, 1914, at Roxborough. He said he took a 

 pair of this species in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, about twenty 

 years ago. (Texas and Calif. Dyar's List.) 



Coleoptera. Mr. Kaeber exhibited a species of Ptinus which he 

 had bred from English walnuts January 26, 1915, and a specimen of 

 Zenoa picea Beauv. collected at Red Bank, New Jersey, July 4, 1908, 

 which latter is not in the New Jersey List. 



Adjourned to the annex. 



GEO. M. GREENE, Secretary. 



American Entomological Society. 



Meeting of February 25, 1915. Dr. Calvert, President, in the chair; 

 nine persons present, including Messrs. W. T. Davis and P. W. Whit- 

 ing, visitors. 



Mr. Davis stated that some celluloid or gelatine points on which in- 

 sects had been mounted had been injured by acetic ether used to kill 

 Anthrenus. 



Odonata. Mr. Davis exhibited a male of Gomphus abbrcviatus 

 Hagen, collected at Greenwood Lake, New Jersey, June 18, 1911, by 

 F. M. Schott, and an addition to the dragonflies of New Jersey. Mr. 

 Greene, while at Dreer's nurseries, Riverton, New Jersey, on the I4th 

 inst., had visited the house where aquatic plants are grown and saw a 

 number of dragonflies flying around. Dr. Calvert remarked that in 

 the Bulletin of the Brooklyn Ent. Soc. VIII, pp. 93-96, Oct., 1913, Mr. 

 W. T. Davis had established the genus Williamsonia for Cordulia lint- 

 ncri Hagen. The recorded localities for this dragonfly are Center, 

 near Albany, New York (types), Saskatchewan, Lake Winnepeg, and 

 Paterson, New Jersey. The speaker now wished to record the occur- 

 rence of this species in Massachusetts, based on three specimens which 

 he had examined during the past three years, viz., a female from Ded- 

 ham, May 20, by Mr. C. W. Johnson (now in the collection of the Bos- 

 ton Society of Natural History) and a male and female from Con- 

 cord, May 16, 1908, sent from the Thoreau Museum of the Middlesex 

 School in Concord for identification. These latter two had been much 



