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going with equal facility backward or forward, either side up. If provided 

 with some support at one side it was possible for it to travel by means of 

 the legs on its dorsal surface alone." 



During the present season an example of a similar larva has come to 

 my notice, specimens being first observed by Prof. L. H. Pammel, occur- 

 ing in the stems of Heliaiithus. Their possessing similar locomotive 

 organs upon the back called to mind the peculiar larva noticed years ago. 

 They differ, however, somewhat in colour as well as in the plant on which 

 they occur, and I find that they attacked voraciously dipterous larva that 

 were living in the same stems. Whether they are normally carnivorous 

 remains of course to be determined, but there can be no question of their 

 attacks upon these larvpe, and apparently with the intent of obtaining food 

 from them. These specimens are of a light bluish colour, possessing pro- 

 legs upon segments 4-9, inclusive, and a pair of tubercles on the ventral 

 portion of the anal segment, as well as a dorsal tubercle on the terminal 

 portion of the same segment. In general appearance there is a striking 

 resemblance to the Laiiguria larva, as shown in figure exhibited by Dr. 

 Weed, but in his drawing there is no indication of the dorsal feet. 



The Club convened at 5 p.m., and considered the following resolu- 

 tion : — 



Resolved, " That it is the sense of the Club that the meetings of the 

 Association of Economic Entomologists and of the Entomological Club 

 would both be benefited by holding such meetings, if possible, at the 

 same time and place as the meeting of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science." 



After discussion by Messrs. Fletcher, Osborn, Cook, Alvvood, Weed 

 and others, the resolution was unanimously adopted. 



The Secretary read a paper by Prof D. S. Kellicott, of Columbus, O.j 

 upon the " Preparatory Stages of Eustrotia caduca.'" He had collected 

 the larva upon Nuphar adveiia at Rives Junction, Michigan, in 1876. 

 From these he had bred a moth, afterwards named by Mr. Grote 

 E. caduca in the Canadian Entomologist, Vol. S, p. 207. During July 

 of the present year he had again collected the insect at Corunna, Michi- 

 gan, and had succeeded in breeding and describing all the stages, which' 

 were submitted herewith. 



The larvae found in 1876 were feeding in the fruit, but those studied 



