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Vol. XXXV. LONDON, APRIL, 1903. No. 4 



THE ENTOMOLOGICAL CLUB OE THE AMERICAN ASSOCI- 

 ATION EOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. 



(Continued from page 61.) 



Friday Evening, January 2, 1903. 

 The Entomological Club of the A. A. A. S. was called together for its 

 second regular session on Friday evening at 7.30 o'clock, in the Columbia 

 Law School, with the President, Mr. Schwarz, in the chair, and the 

 following members present : Messrs. Althouse, Barber, Bradley, Burke, 

 Currie, Hines, Hopkins, Mann, Marlatt, Herbert Osborii, Osburn, 

 Quaintance, Webb. The minutes of the last meeting were read and 

 approved. The President called on Mr. Marlatt for some entomological 

 notes, and the latter responded by giving an account of an entomological 

 collecting trip on a tour of investigation made in the interior of China, 

 west of Shanghai, on a house-boat, in the late autumn of 1901. 



A House-boat Collecting Trip in China. 



BY C. L. iMARLATT, 



Mr. President, I can give you some account of conditions in China, 

 partly entomological. This is an informal meeting, with no set pro- 

 gramme, and what I shall present will not necessarily relate to insects. I 

 had some very interesting experiences in China, and perhaps the most 

 interesting of these was a trip that I made on a house-boat into the interior 

 from Shanghai. I have alluded to this trip on one or two earlier occasions 

 without having gone at all into detail. The trip was an entomological 

 exploration, but the entomological features were not very rich. 



The region explored in this trip is the flat country lying between the 

 Yang-tse river and the Bay of Hangchow and the great interior lake, 

 Ta-Hu. It included a trip up the Whang-Poo river, on which Shanghai is 

 situated, to its head waters, where it is continued in the considerable canal, 

 passing several Chinese cities of some importance until the Grand Canal 

 is reached at Ka-Shing. From this point the Grand Canal was followed 

 as far as Samen, and then a detour was made through smaller interior 

 canals to Haining, a considerable tow  ",ty and in sight of Hang- 



