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similarly situated. Such gills are probably modified abdominal 

 legs. The existence of such gills is held to indicate the descent 

 of Odonata and Ephemerida from animals with abdominal 

 legs. 



The following were elected to serve as officers for the en- 

 suing year : 



Director, Philip Laurent ; Vice-Director, H. W. Wenzel ; 

 Treasurer, E. T. Cresson ; Recorder, Henry Skinner, Secre- 

 tary, E. T. Cresson, Jr. ; Conservator, Henry Skinner ; Publ. 

 Committee, E. T. Cresson and E. T. Cresson, Jr. 



HENRY SKINNER, Recorder. 



BROOKLYN ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



The annual meeting at 55 Stuyvesant Ave., January 12, 1911, 

 was attended by 22 members and four visitors. The officers, 

 with the exception of the Librarian, were re-elected : President, 

 Dr. John B. Smith, Vice-President, Geo. P. Engelhardt : Treas- 

 urer, Chris. E. Olsen ; Recording Secretary, R. P. Dow ; Cor- 

 responding Secretary, A. C. Weeks; Curator, Geo. Franck; 

 Librarian, Silas C. Wheat ; Delegate to the New York Aca- 

 demy of Sciences, John B. Smith. 



A dinner is to be held some time during February by the 

 Brooklyn, New York and Newark Entomological Societies. 



Mr. William Wasmuth described the eggs of the genus 

 Catocala, of which he has bred nearly all the local species. The 

 eggs of elonympha and nnbilis differ radically from the others, 

 supporting the contention that these species belong to different 

 genera. A number of species hibernate as pupae. 



R. P. Dow, Recording Secretary. 



NEWARK ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Meeting of September u, 1910; thirteen members and two 

 visitors, Messrs. Matausch, of Newark, N. J., and Bird, of 

 Rye, N. Y., present. 



Mr. Bird read a paper on "New York City's fifty-mile 



