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tends from 39 to 41 degrees north latitude and upward to but 

 1800 ft. with an area of 7800 square miles, and has 108 species. 

 Xine species are common to the States of Yera Cruz and New 

 Jersey. They are Hetaerina americana, Argia translata, Isch- 

 nura ramburi, Anomalagrion hast at urn, Ana.v juniiis, A. longi- 

 pes, LibcUula auripennis, Pantala flavcscens, Sympctnim cor- 

 ruptitm. Mr. Daecke said 34 species of Chrysops had been re- 

 corded from New Jersey and only 22 species from Africa. The 

 following officers were elected for the year 1908: 



Director, Philip Laurent. 



Vice-Director, H. W. Wenzel. 



Treasurer, E. T. Cresson. 



Conservator, Henry Skinner. 



Secretary, J. H. Ridings. 



Recorder, Henry Skinner. 



HENRY SKINNER, Recorder. 



Meeting January 23, 1908. Dr. D. M. Castle presiding. 

 Ten persons were present. Dr. Skinner exhibited a geometrid 

 moth that was captured at the Falls of Schuylkill by the Rev. 

 I. F. Stidham. It was a Plagodis probably new to science. 

 Mr. J. A. G. Rehn exhibited a large roach, Blaberus atropos 

 Stoll, taken at Key West, Florida. This species is common in 

 Cuba and widely distributed through Central and South Amer- 

 ica, this record however being the first from the United States. 

 Its occurrence is probably clue to accidental importation from 

 Cuba. Mr. Rehn also exhibited specimens of the Acridid genus 

 Proctolabus, which for over forty years had remained a mon- 

 otypic genus but which is now known to contain three species 

 in addition to the type, all of which were exhibited. The 

 type species, P. mcxicana came originally from Toluca, Mexico, 

 the new forms being from Jalisco, Mexico, Costa Rica and the 

 eastern slope of the Peruvian Andes. The speaker then ex- 

 hibited specimens of three genera of Acrididae possessing 

 somewhat similar development of the median carina of the 

 pronotum, although from widely separated localities and be- 

 longing to two distinct sub-families. The genera shown were 



