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Prof. Smith read a communication from A. F. Burgess on 

 Calosoma and Carabus. Mr. Wenzel said that Calosoina seem- 

 ed practically wiped out in this locality, mentioning the scarcity 

 of the various species and said that the only species he had seen 

 common were willcoxi and scrutator at Burleigh, Cape May 

 Co., N. J. Prof. Smith said that in Europe where Carabus is 

 very common, many species live in the open and cultivated 

 ground, while here we have not a single species with this habit. 



Mr. C. T. Greene exhibited and recorded the following Dip- 

 tera: Sphccomyia rittata Wied., Malaga, N. J., V-i-'io and 

 Teuchocnemus bacitntius Walker, a 9 from Clementon, N. J., 

 V-j-'io. both collected by himself. He had taken two $ speci- 

 mens of the latter at Darby, Pa., Y-j-iSrjg ; the New Jersey rec- 

 ord in the 1900 list is Palisades." 



Mr. Kaeber, in continuation of his communication of last 

 meeting, said he collected more Sphenophorus in the ''Phila- 

 delphia Neck" adding minimus and pertinax. Many were taken 

 under stones and some in copulation in roots of grasses. He 

 said that the larvae of Cryptorhynchus lopathi were still active 

 in the willows and many Diptera were around the workings. 

 Prof. Smith said the poplars in New Jersey were more infested 

 than the willows and that the weevil was in maturity about the 

 latter part of August. 



Mr. Wenzel exhibited his collection of Platynns, which is 

 nearly complete, explaining that where about 75 per cent, were 

 previously mounted on slips now that we have the firm fine pins 

 it is only necessary to mount a couple of species in this manner. 

 Adjourned to the annex. 



GEO. M. GREENE, Secretary. 



OBITUARY. 



CYRUS THOMAS, PH.D. 



Among the names of those men whose earnest work in the 

 seventies and eighties laid the foundations of economic, and 

 (o a great measure systematic, entomology in America, (hat <>f 



