58 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [February,, 



The following officers were elected to serve another year: 



President, JAMES H. B. BLAND. 



Vice- President, Dr. DAVID M. CASTLE. 

 Treasurer, H. W. WENZEL. 



Secretary, THEO. H. SCHMITZ. 



Dr. Skinner extended an invitation to the members, inviting 

 them to hold the next meeting at his residence; so ordered, the 

 secretary being instructed to notify the members previously of 

 the place of meeting. No further business being presented the 

 meeting adjourned to the annex. 



THEO. H. SCHMITZ, Secretary. 



Errata. In the December minutes the name C. charts should 

 be C. choris. 





The Entomological Section 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



PROCEEDINGS OF MEETINGS. 



Nov. 21, 1895. 



A regular stated meeting of the Entomological Section of the 

 Academy of Natural Sciences was held in the Hall, S. W. cor. 

 Nineteenth and Race Streets, this evening, Dr. Geo. H. Horn, 

 director, presiding. Members present: Seiss, Fox, Skinner, 

 Ridings, Liebeck. Associates: Reinick, Gerhard, Castle. Mr. 

 C. Few Seiss stated that he had been experimenting with a cap- 

 tive specimen of Prionidus cristatus Linn, in relation to its killing 

 other insects. A red legged grasshopper (M. femur-rubrum ) 

 struggled violently when first seized, but almost instantly after 

 the beak of the Prionidiis was inserted its struggles ceased, and 

 in thirty seconds the grasshopper, to all outward appearances, 

 was dead. In the case of a yellow-bear caterpillar, two inches in 

 length, all evidence of life and motion disappeared in thirty-five 

 seconds after seizure by the Prionidus. 



