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A meeting was held in Turn Hall, Sunday, April 8, with 

 eight members present. But little business of importance was 

 transacted. President Kemp reported the capture of Acontia 

 delccta at Elizabeth on July 7, 1899. It was decided to hold a 

 field meeting at Hemlock Falls on the second Sunday in May. 

 There being no further business the meeting adjourned. 



WILLIAM H. BROADWELL, Secrctarv. 



A special meeting of the Harris Club was held at 35 Court 

 Street, Boston, on Saturday evening, March 3, 1900. Mr. 

 A. H. Kirkland was unanimously elected to membership. Mr. 

 Newcomb exhibted specimens of some of the rarer North Ameri- 

 can Catocala, and also made some interesting remarks on the 

 life-history of Thyridopteryx ephemerceformis. Mr. Weeks 

 showed a large number pf butterflies secured by his collector 

 in Bolivia, and invited the members of the Club to visit him at 

 his house on March nth. 



The fifth regular meeting was held on the evening of Friday, 

 March 23d. Mr. H. K. Burrison was unanimously elected to 

 membership. Mr. Newcomb made some entertaining remarks 

 on the subject of newspaper Entomology. Mr. Field spoke at 

 some length on the colors of insects, and the physical principles 

 underlying the effects observed. The same speaker afterward 

 outlined some interesting problems in the distribution of An- 

 thocharis genutia. A general discussion of methods employed 

 in collecting about electric lights followed. 



W. L,. W. FlELD, Secretary. 



The sixth regular meeting of the Harris Club was held at 35 

 Court St., Boston, on Friday evening, April 20, 1900. 



With reference to the abnormally large cocoons of Attacus 

 cecropia, which were discussed at the meeting held on February 

 1 6, Mr. Newcomb called attention to Dr. Skinner's investiga- 

 tion of the correlation between the aspect of the cocoon and 

 the sex of the inmate (ExT. NEWS, 1-19). Mr. Field re- 

 marked that the cocoons in question were not of the ordinary 

 female type, which is well known to collectors, but were much 

 larger and more globular in shape. He quoted a letter recently 



