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over-sheen within the white band. The same portion of ar- 

 thcmis is invariably a duller brownish, without the iridescence 

 common to both on the outer portion of the wings. 



R. P. Dow, Recording Secretary. 



The Brooklyn Entomological Society met May 7, 1908 at 

 55 Stuyvesant Avenue, Brooklyn, Vice-president Graef in the 

 chair and eleven members present. 



The discussion of the previous month on Basilarchia was 

 renewed. Mr. Frank Watson has a fine series from Niagara 

 Falls including one specimen squarely between astyanax and 

 alb of as data. Both Mr. Franck and Mr. Doll have undoubted 

 hybrids between astyanax and disippits. From Flatbush in 

 1907 chrysalids from willows were generally astyana.v. Very 

 few disippus were seen in the region that year. Chrysalids 

 from wild cherry were all astyanax. 



Mr Schott captured at Huntington, L. I. Anatrichns minntits, 

 a beetle normally living in the Gulf states. He took at Jamaica, 

 L. I. Ip& confluentus, a species not recorded in Smith's New 

 Jersey list. 



Mr. Bather reported on a trip of three months through 

 Mexico and touching at Havana and Miami, Florida. In the 

 Mexican mountains there was an absolute dearth of insects 

 of all orders, not even aphids on the rose tips. This was at- 

 tributed to the extreme dry weather. A clay's stay at Orizaba, 

 Mexico, yielded good results. An excellent box-ful contain- 

 ing no duplicates came from a single sequestered spot in the 

 grounds of Morro Castle, Havana. Collecting was good in 

 Miami in March. He had an aberrant Eumacus atala from 

 Miami in which canary yellow replaced the normally bright 

 red abdomen and spots on the under side of the wings. 



R. P. Dow, Recording Secretary. 



OBITUARY. 



FRIEDRICH WILHELM KONOW 



Friedrich Wilhelm Konow of Teschendorf, Germany, the 

 distinguished scholar and Hymenopterist, who worked speci- 

 ally in the Tenthredinoidea, died March i8th hist. An 

 account of his life is published in the May number of the 

 Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift. 



