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green, whereas in the male the costal margin only is green. He 

 said there was no doubt that the species had gained a firm foothold 

 in Median's nursery and was well established there; in the abdo- 

 men of this mantid he had found parasitic worms. 



Mr. C. W.Johnson spoke of a class of names in Dipterological 

 literature based on the galls only, the imago and in most cases the 

 larva being unknown. Referring to Cecidomyia raccinif Osten 

 Sacken ( Monog. 1, 19G, 18(52), based on a " cock's comb "-shaped gall 

 on the leaves of the huckleberry ( Vaccinium) and Cecidomyia vac- 

 ciini J. B. Smith, which infests the cranberry <N. J. Agric. Expint. 

 Sta., spec, bull K, Feb. 90). its complete life history described and 

 figured and its generic determination correct ; while the imago of 

 C. vaccinii O. Sacken mar prove to be a different genus or perhaps 

 belong to another family. Which name should stand? Further 

 discussed by Messrs. Skinner and Calvert for and against Prof. 

 Smith's species, Dr. Calvert insisting that no matter what genus 

 Osteu Sackeu's species proved to be, his name would have priority 

 and Prof Smith's name would have to bechanced. Mr. Johnson 

 proposes the name Cecidomyia oxycoccana for Prof. Smith's spe- 

 cies 



Dr. P. P. Calvert showed a pair of C'alopteryx <i/>ic<ilts Burin., 

 taken at Tom's River, New Jersey, in 1889, by Mr- L. Riederer of 

 New York City, the interest of this locality (not previously re- 

 corded) being that, although Burmeister's types are said to have 

 come from Philadelphia, the species has not been taken near there 

 formany years. He also showed an immature Coleopterous larva 

 stated to have come from the bed jf a consumptive patient ; it was 

 of a species of Tenebroides and probably came from the bed-filling. 



Mr. Howard A. Snyder, of Hermit Lane, Roxborough, Philadel- 

 phia, was elected an Associate of the Section. 



HENRY SKINNER, M. D 



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OBITUARY. 



''Our poor friend, HENRY GUERNSEY HUBBARD, died here yester- 

 day, January 18, 1899, at 11 o'clock p. m." signed E. A. Schwarz, 

 and dated at Crescent City, Florida. 



This brief note marks the passing of an Entomologist who de- 

 serves much more than a casual notice because of his pre-eminence 

 as a scientific collector, particularly of Coleoptera, and of the in- 

 fluence which in a quiet way he exerted upon the condition of our 

 American collections. 



Mr. Ilubbard was born May 6, 1850, and was thus less than forty- 

 nine years old at the time of his death. He entered Harvard in 189, 

 graduated in due course in 1873, and continued his Entomological 

 studies with Dr. Hag-en during the summer ot that year. Mr. G. 



