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species, Cricoptopus sylvesfris which is injurious to vegetation. 

 the larva' mining the leaves of the water lily, Vx-lorifi ret/id- 



Mr Johnson referred to a former commmunication on spirally 

 girdled hickory twigs, and stated he had since reared two speci- 

 mens of Hi'tmtrliilK'K quadrimaculatus therefrom. 



Mr. II. Weuzel exhibited his collection ofScydmaenidae and P.-H 

 aphida." containing 1 about 150 species and 900 specimens. Over NO 

 specie- were from the vicinity of Philadelphia. 71) of which occur 

 in New Jersey, although he believed all will eventually be found in 

 both Pennsylvania and New Jersey. 



Prof Smith called attention to a collection of the mouth parts of 

 Carabidse on which Dr. Horn's classification of that family was 

 based. He had undertaken the mounting of these specimens on 

 microscopic slides, the specimens being originally pasted on card 

 board. In every instance the specimen was simply named gener- 

 ic-ally. The slides will be arranged in boxes, the latter numbered 

 to correspond to the plates of Dr. Horn's paper, and each slide is 

 numbered the same as the corresponding figure on the plates. He 

 stated that the figures are not exact, the author bringing out only 

 certain salient features of the mouth parts and in the speaker's opin- 

 ion thereby overlooking other important characters. 



A vote of thanks was extended Prot. J. B. Smith for tile-elegant 

 collation given the members at the last meeting. 



Dr. Skinner related the experiences of his recent trip to the Wa- 

 -atch Mountains, Utah, in company with Me.-srs. Snyderand Laur- 

 ent. WILLIAM J. Fox. Secretary 



