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and the presence of commercial crop plants with which they have 

 become associated. These facts bear out the conclusion long 

 reached by naturalists that these widely distributed species must 

 once have been confined to their place of origin in some one of the 

 continents now occupied by them so recently. 



I may add that Dicopus psyche, which I recently described from 

 Fiji, has subsequently been found in North Queensland. 



MEETING OF NOVEMBER 7, 1912. 



The 262d regular meeting of the Society was entertained by 

 Prof. T. B. Symons and Mr. A. B. Gahan at the Saengerbund 

 Hall, 314 C Street N. W., on the evening of November 7, 1912, 

 and there were present: Messrs. Baker, Barber, Burgess, Busck, 

 Caudell, Cory, Craighead, Crawford, Cushman, Duckett, Fisher, 

 Gahan, Gill, Green, Heidemann, Heinrick, Hopkins, Howard, 

 Johansen, Knab, McAtee, Marshall, Middleton, Myers, Quain- 

 tance, Rohwer, Russell, Sanford, Sasscer, Schwarz, Siegler, Snyder, 

 Symons, Walton, and Wood, members and C. C. Craft, J. R. 

 Malloch, and R. C. Shannon, visitors. 



The following proposed at the 261st meeting of the Society 

 were elected active members: C. T. Greene, Carl Heinrick, J. D. 

 Hood, F. Johansen, and W. Middleton. In addition the following 

 names were proposed for active membership: F. C. Craighead, 

 A. B. Duckett, and W. S. Fisher. Under suspension of rules, 

 the three were elected. 



Under new business the Recording Secretary read the following 

 proposed amendments to the constitution : 



Article IV to be amended to read as follows : 



The officers of the Society shall be a President, a First Vice- 

 President, a Second Vice-President, a Recording Secretary, a 

 Corresponding Secretary-Treasurer, and an Editor, to be elected 

 by ballot at the annual meeting. There shall be an Executive 

 Committee consisting of the officers of the Society and three 

 members to be elected by the Society in the same manner and at 

 the same time. 



Article V to be amended as follows: 



Section 4. The Editor shall edit the magazine published by the 

 Society under the direction of the Executive Committee. 



