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WISCONSIN NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 



Vol. 7. APRIL, 1909. Nos. 1—2. 



PROCEEDINGS. 



Milwaukee, October 8, 1908. 



Meeting of the combined sections. 



President Teller' in the chair and eighteen persons present. 



Mr. Herbert Clowes exhibited a greatly enlarged model of the 

 Great Golden Digger Wasp, Proterosphax ichncumonea Linn., prepared 

 by him for exhibition in the public museum. He described the methods 

 employed in making such models of minute and complicated objects, 

 and showed the detailed drawings used in modeling the separate parts. 



Mr. Brues then exhibited some Hymenoptera representing genera 

 new to North America. Two of these, Asaphes and Aphanomerus had 

 been bred by Dr. Barth in connection with his studies on the habits of 

 the Crabronida?, a third was a member of the genus Alaptus just 

 described by Girault, from Illinois. An insect from South Africa, 

 representing a new subfamily of the Scelionidae, a family of Parasitic 

 Hymenoptera was also shown. 



Mr. B. A. Muttkowski then showed several dragon-flies not hitherto 

 collected in Wisconsin, together with some others of special interest. 



The meeting then adjourned. 



Milwaukee, October 28, 1908. 



Begular monthly meeting of the society. 



President Teller in the chair and about forty persons present. 

 The minutes of the last monthly meeting were read and approved. 

 The names of Dr. Filip A. Forsbeck, 754 Marshall Street, and Mr. 

 Paul Hammersmith, 116 Michigan Street, were nominated for member- 



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