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the Academy, he agreeing to furnish all the boxes needed for 

 this purpose. The members readily accepted this proposition, 

 and were advised to collect all orders and to mark the dates and 

 localities on all such specimens plainly. 



Prof. Smith presented each of the members with a copy of his 

 annual report. 



No further business being presented the meeting adjourned to 



the annex at u P. M. 



THEO. H. SCHMITZ, Secretary. 



Tne Entomological Section 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



PROCEEDINGS OF MEETINGS. 



MARCH 26, 1896. 



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. Dr. Horn stated that he had recently re- 

 ceived a letter from Mr. Champion in relation to the synonymy 

 of some Elateridae found in our fauna and in Mexico, more par- 

 ticularly in regard to the prosternum of Ludiiis. The speaker 

 stated that a Lower Californian form had a differently shaped 

 prosternum from that found in the other members of the genus, 

 and that the mesosternum was more protuberant. This will 

 probably be referred to Probothrium notwithstanding the fact that 

 texanus and the other form are almost exactly alike otherwise. 

 Mr. Welles exhibited specimens of the peculiar larva of Har- 

 risimemna trisignata as well as the pupa, perfect insects and lilac 

 branches showing borings in the wood. The larvae, when full 

 grown, bore into the solid wood to change into a chrysalis. Mr. 

 C. Few Seiss read a paper on "The Breeding Habits of Peri- 

 planeta orientalist On the 2Oth of April, 1895, one male and 

 three female cockroaches, Periplaneta orientalis Linn., were 

 caught and placed in a large shallow jar, in the bottom of which 

 was a layer of garden soil about one inch in thickness. A small 

 box with an aperature or doorway at one end was also provided, 

 which was regularly used by the roaches as a home, dormitory 

 and place of retreat. Throughout their captive lives they were 



