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sects were seen in the rays by the thousands. 



Dr. Castle said he had been to Pine Beach, New Jersey, 

 May 14, and had caught five species of Cicindela. He found 

 some flat fungus on the ground which he placed in a tin box 

 and bred from it Caenocara ocnlata Say (Col.). At Glasgow, 

 Delaware, May 24, he had beaten the weevil Brachystylus 

 acutus Say from persimmon. 



Mr. Geo. M. Greene reported collecting as good in his usual 

 collecting spot, Overbrook. Pennsylvania. He exhibited a spe- 

 cies of Coleoptera from there which he had never had before, 

 Mycetochara binotata Say, June 7, 1914, and two species that 

 he had but had never himself taken : Perothops mucida Gyll., 

 May 30, 1914, and Eurymycter fasciata Oliv., June 7, 1914; 

 also a series of Melandrya striata Say, May 31 and June 7, 

 1914, and Ithycerus novaboracensis Forst., May 30 and May 31, 

 1914. The two wasps recorded last season, Ibalia maculipennis 

 Hald. and Arotes amoenus Cress, (no males seen), are again 

 numerous, as are three species of Megarhyssa : otrata Fabr., 

 lunator Fabr. and greenei Viereck, both sexes. 



Mr. H. W. Wenzel said that at Anglesea, New Jersey, May 

 30, 1914, he saw the first large washup of insects for years, 

 among which were five species of Caloso-ma : e.vternum Say, 

 scrutator Fabr., willco.vi LeC., frigidiim Kirby and calidnm 

 Fabr. He exhibited a pair of Chrysobothris gemmata LeC. 

 collected by F. H. Snow, one at Douglas, Arizona, in August, 

 the other in the Baboquivari Mts., Arizona. 



Adjourned to the annex. 



GEO. M. GREENE, Secretary. 



OBITUARY. 



DR. THEODORE NICHOLAS GILL, who died in Washington, 

 September 25, 1914, although chiefly known as an ichthyolo- 

 gist, took an active part in the meetings of the Entomological 

 Society of Washington years ago. He was born in New York 

 City, March 21, 1837. An obituary notice has appeared in 

 Science for Oct. 16, 1914. 



