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Dr. Van Dyke said that Dichelonycha clypeata was described 

 Irom a unique. Later Mr. Ricksecker collected many. Mr. A. 

 Kusche found four or five in San Mateo County ; Mr. Bridwell 

 took males in Contra Costa County. The species was first 

 recorded from the Alameda side of the Bay. D. valida is also 

 found in Alameda County, in April, on Redwood Peak. 



Adjournment and refreshments. 



A special meeting was held in conjunction with the Pacific 

 Association of Scientific Societies, on Thursday evening, April 

 10, 1913, in Room 113 of the Agricultural Hall of the Univer- 

 sity of California, Berkeley. Twelve members and guests 

 were present. 



The meeting was called to order at eight o'clock by President 

 Van Dyke. After a few appropriate remarks the following 

 program was presented : 



New Species of Tenebrionidae and the Technique for Study- 

 ing the Genitalia of the Coleoptera, by Frank E. Blaisdell, Sr. 



A Review of the Coccinellidae, by F. W. Nunenmacher. 



The Littoral Coleopterous Fauna of the Pacific Coast, by 

 Edwin C. Van Dyke. 



Remarks on the- Use of the Lantern in Illustrating the In- 

 sects of Economic Importance, by Prof. C. W. Woodworth. 



The forty-eighth meeting, or Field Day, was not held as no 

 arrangements or decisions had been made at the forty-seventh 



meeting. 



F. E. BLAISDELL, Secretary. 



OBITUARY. 



An obituary notice of CARL FUCHS, well known as a coleop- 

 terist, was published by Dr. F. E. Blaisdell in Science for July 

 17, 1914. Mr. Fuchs was born in Hanau, Frank furt-am-Main, 

 November 25, 1839, and died in Alameda, California, June n, 

 1914. His visit to the Eastern United States, a few years 

 ago, is still fresh in the memory of his friends. 



