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Mr. Laurent exhibited a series of Syneda graphica from Clem- 

 enton, N. J., showing considerable variation in the median band 

 of hind wing. 



Mr. Johnson exhibited a number of rare Diptera of the family 

 Xylophagidae. 



Dr. Skinner suggested that the Social hold out-door meetings 

 during July and August, upon which it was moved by Mr. 

 Laurent that a July meeting be held at Westville, N. J., on 

 Saturday the iyth inst. ; carried. Mr. Wenzel then moved that 

 a committee of two be appointed to secure suitable quarters for 

 this meeting; the chairman, thereupon, appointing Dr. Skinner 

 and Mr. Boerner on said committee with instructions to report 

 at July 4th meeting. 



No further business being presented the meeting adjourned to 

 the annex at 10.20 P.M. 



THEO. H. SCHMITZ, Secretary. 



TTne Entomological Section 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



PROCEEDINGS OF MEETINGS. 



The following papers were read and accepted by the Committee for 

 publication in ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS: 



LIFE-HISTORY OF ERYCIDES AMYNTAS Fab. 

 By HARRISON G. DVAR. 



I found these larvae at Miami, Fla., but, being unable to remain 

 in the place long enough to breed them, I turned them over to 

 Mrs. Slosson, who obtained the butterfly and determined the 

 species. 



Egg. Cylindrical, swollen above the base, flat above and below; four- 

 teen sharp, narrow, plate-like ridges, each broadened at top so much that 

 they are contiguous, forming a crest around the deep, smooth micropyle; 

 light green, later reddish, the ridges white, the crest conspicuous, snowy 

 white; no cross lines visible under a lens, but under a half-inch objective 

 the ridges are very finely fluted. Diameter, .8 mm.; height, .9 mm. 



Stage I. Head dull black, rounded, vertex square, slightly notched; 

 width, .55 mm. Body unicolorous, semi-translucent ocher-yellow, seg- 

 ments well marked; setre inconspicuous, short, white, with large swollen 



