74 [November 



l)ONATiONS TO LIBRARY. 



Annual Reports of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institn- 

 tionfor 1858 and 1860. From the Institution. 



Notice of some North American species of Pieris. By Samuel H. Scud- 

 der. From the Author. 



Prairie Farmer (^Chicago, III.), Vol. 8, Nos. 15, 16 and 17. From 

 the Editors. 



Proceedings of the Society for September and Octoher. From the 

 Publication Committee. 



WRITTEN COMMUNICATIONS. 



Letters were read from Messrs. Edward Norton of Farmington, Conn., 

 Samuel H. Scudder of Boston, Mass., Stephen Calverley of Brooklyn, 

 N. Y., and A. S. Packard, Jr. of Brunswick, Maine, acknowledging their 

 election as Correspondents of the Society. 



A communication was read from Mr. Evett, reporting the capture of 

 the following insects during August and September:— Trltoma unicolor, 

 in fresh fungi; Anomala lucicola, taken with the beating net on scrub 

 bushes, long grass, and flowers; Direrca spreta and Dlstenia undata, on 

 Oak trees; Uriphus riiher, on the Golden Rod; Sap>erda discoidea, on 

 Hickory trees; Anthrax Shnson, Psarus quadrifasciatns, Dasyp)ogon dis- 

 color, Eristalis trifasciatus, Sericomyia limhipennis, and Lihelhda Dom- 

 itia, on sunny spots in woods; Vanessa oryfhia, on the turnpike between 

 Gloucester and Red Bank, New Jersey. 



A paper was presented for publication in the Proceedings, entitled "■ A 

 Catalogue of the Longicorn Coleoptera taken in the vicinity of Philadel- 

 phia, by James H. B. Bland." 



And was referred to a Committee. 



PROPOSALS AND ELECTIONS. 



Propositions Nos. 51 and 58 for membership were read. 



Mr. C. F. Parker of Cooper's Point, New Jersey, and Robert Frazer, 

 Esq. of Philadelphia, were elected Members of the Society. 



And Mr. H. T. Fay of Columbus, Ohio, and Mr. W. H. S. Wood of 

 New York, were elected Con-t'spoudcnts. 



