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Coleoptera) from the Aleutian Islands, by Dr. A. Fenyes, was 

 then presented and read. It was moved, seconded and voted 

 to publish the paper. 



President Van Dyke gave a talk on the relationships and 

 distribution of the species of the Coleopterous Sub-Family, 

 Carabinae. 



Mr. Huguenin exhibited 180 species of insects collected at 

 Lagunitas, Marin County, Calif. 



Communications were red from Mr. Harry Lang, of At- 

 lanta, Ga., and Mr. L. E. Ricksecker, of San Diego, Calif. 



Social discussion and refreshments followed. 



The forty-fourth regular meeting or Annual Field Day was 

 held on May 19, 1912, at Lagunitas, Marin County, California. 

 Six members and ten guests attended the outing. The day 

 was a very rainy one and very little collecting was done. The 

 members spent the day under cover and around a fire. 



The Secretary reported a communication from Mr. Frank 

 Stephens, to the effect that Mr. L. E. Ricksecker had been sud- 

 denly stricken and was seriously ill. The members requested 

 the Secretary to write and express their sympathy to the fam- 



ily. 



F. E. BLAISDELL, Secretary. 



FELDMAN COLLECTING SOCIAL. 



Meeting of June 19, 1912, at 1523 South Thirteenth Street, 

 Philadelphia ; twelve members were present. President Haim- 

 bach in the chair. 



Mr. Wenzel, Sr., read extracts from a letter received from 

 our fellow-member, C. T. Greene, now located at East Falls 

 Church, Virginia, telling how he secured the eggs of a Dip- 

 teron by placing a female in a jar with a piece of bark soaked 

 in sap. 



Mr. Geo. M. Greene exhibited the larvae, pupae and imago 

 of Physonota unipunctata Say (Col.) collected by himself in 

 Boonton, New Jersey, July 10, 1901. The envelope contain- 



