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ing, on account of its rapid action. He employs a common 

 jelly tumbler with a tin cover ; a ring on the inside of the 

 cover holds a sponge designed to receive the chloroform. Mr. 

 Rogers reported an examination of the pupa contained in one 

 of the inflated cocoons of Attacus cecropia, which were discussed 

 at the April meeting ; the pupa in this case was alive, and not 

 parasitized. Mr. Newcomb showed a specimen and nest of 

 Cteniza calif arnica. 



The eighth regular meeting was held June 15, 1900. Messrs. 

 C. E. Preston, Frank Sherriff and John S. Rogers were elected 

 to membership. It w^as voted to hold a field meeting in July. 

 Mr. Newcomb told of great success in collecting about electric 

 lights. A screen of white netting, attached to strings thrown 

 across the wires overhead, secured many specimens which would 

 otherwise have alighted on buildings out of reach. Messrs. 

 Bolster and Smalley reported the capture, in Mattapan and 

 Dorchester respectively, of two fine femals of the rare Sphfn.v 

 litscitiosa. Mr. Field mentioned a specimen of the same moth, 

 now in his collection, which w^as secured in Milton, Mass., by 

 Mr. T. T. Whitney, Jr., in 1896. Mr. W. D. Denton an- 

 nounced the reappearance of Papilio philcnor in Wellesley. 



W. Iy. W. FIELD, Secrctan . 



OBITUARY. 



George Ruscheweyh, lepidopterist, died at Buenos Aires, 

 Argentina, August 2, 1899. He was born July 20, 1826, in 

 Mecklenburg Schwerin, Germany. From early youth he 

 possessed a great love for natural history ; his first collection 

 of butterflies was made as a boy. He went to South America 

 in 1846, landing in Chili, in which country he lived for some 

 time, doing business as an importing merchant and devoting 

 his leisure to his studies in natural history. In 1854 he went 

 to the Argentine Republic, where he was for many yeai> a 

 leading merchant. In his declining years he retired partly 

 from active pursuits. His collection of L,epidoptera was the 

 result of the work of twenty-five years of collecting and ex- 

 changing, and is cited in the works of Burmeister and of Bcr- 

 It is deposited in the Argentine National Museum, and will 

 probably be purchased by the government. Mr. Ruscheweyh 

 had many correspondents in the United States, who will greatly 

 miss his assistance. HARRISON G. DYAR. 



