isoi'.] irr. 



(? specimens of HymknoI'TKUA ( Trnf/n-rdo ro/i/onn'rvs Nortmi ('ry])e), 

 Lroccms alhicornis, Annn'/ji/ii/a /tirtiiosa, Pilopujn^ /istii/dris^ AV/.s 7%/- 

 fcra, Polistes carni/ca:), froii) Dr. Geo. H. Horn. 



3 specimens of Hemiptkra {Di/xilercim .•<ii/iir(i/is. Jjunjiin siiccinrfiis), 

 from P. K. Uhler. 



2 specimens of HYMKNCti'TKHA (Troj/ns. c.ro^oi-ius)^ bred from the chrys- 

 alis of Papillo anferias, from Dr. Samuel Lewis. 



DONATIONS TO LIBRARY. 



Prairie Farmer {Chicago^ Jtt.^^ Nos. 16 to 19 '//' Vol. 0. From the 

 Editors. 



Proceedings of the Sorlcfj/ for March and Aprif, 1862. From the 

 Publication Committee. 



WRITTEN COMMUNICATIONS. 



A letter was read from Mr. Aug. R. Clrote, dated Huffalo. April 17th, 

 1862, acknowledging his election as a Corresponding Member of the 

 Society. 



A conajiuiiicatioii w;is rend from Mr. Bland, reporting the capture of 

 the following Coleoptera, on the 11th inst., west of the Schuylkill Hiver, 

 below Gray's Ferry: Lchia scupularis and Langurla Mo::<irdt^ common 

 on the Dandelion. Coccidula lepida.^ with the beating-net. 



The following paper was presented for publication in the Proceedings : 

 " Additions to the Catalogue of United States Lepidoptera, by Aug. 11. 

 Grote." 



And was i-eferred to a Committee. 



NEW' BUSINESS. 



The recent act of the Legislature of Pennsylvania, incorp(irating the 

 Society, was read and accepted, and a Committee appointed to revise the 

 By-Laws in conformity thereto. 



ELECTIONS. 



Mr. Thomas Shaw, of Germantown, Pa., and Mr. John Getz, of Phila- 

 delphia, were elected Resident Members of the Society. Col. Craig Bid- 

 die, of Bucks County, I'enii., and Mr. William M. (iabb, of San Fran- 

 cisco, ('al.. were elect(Ml Corresjionding IMemliers. 



