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li. W. SiiUi'"KLDT, {]. S. Aii.MY — Some oiuly, ami as yet uii[)ul)li.sliinl, drawings of 

 Auduljon. 

 TllKODOiiic Gill — Tlio cluiracteri.stics and fauiilics of iniomoiis liishes. 



(April 17, 188(3.) 



TiiKdDoiiK Gill — The characteristics ami families of iiiiomotis fishes. 

 I''ki:dkkic a. Lucas — Notes on the vertebne of Amphiuma, Sii-en, and Mfuopoma. 

 Fkkdkkicu W. Tuue — 1. Exhibition of a wood hare with abnormal j,'iovvili of 

 fur. '2. Some distinctive cranial characters of the Canadian Lynx. 



li. E. C. Stkarns —Instances of the effect of musical sounds on ai]inials. 

 John 15. S.mith — Ants' nests and their inhabitants. 



(May 1, l.SS(i.) 



R. E. C. SteakN'S — Instances of the etl'i'ct of musical soiimls nii aniiuals. 

 Joiix A. RvDEii — The evolution of the mammalian i)lacenta. 

 T. II. Beax — The trout of Norih America, with exhil)ition of specimens. 

 William II. Dall — 1. On the attachnuMit of LuujnUi, with exliibitiou of speci- 

 mons. 2. On the divisions of the i^enns 7V(7t'». 



(May iri, ISriO.) 



.Toiix I>. S.MiTii — Ants' nesls and their inhabitants. 



T. II. I>KAX — The trout of North Anunica, with (>xhibilion of sp<>cimens. 



L. (). Howard — On some new ChaJcAdida. 



C. Haht Mkhkiam — Habits of the Short-tailed Shrew. 



(May 29, 1886.) 



.loiix 15. Smith— Ants' nests and tlieir inhabitants. 



T. H. Bean — The trout of North America, with exhibition of specimens. 

 L. O. MoWAKD— On sonu^ new Chaleidida: 



Lestkii F. Ward — Exhibition of a specimen of the Palo la Cruz, or Wood of the 

 Cross. 



ENTOMOf.OGICAL SOCIETY OF JTASIIINGTOX. 



(November 18. 1885.) 



Otto LtJGGKR — On thi* t-urlier staytisand habits of C<r.tna dimidiaia. 



B. P. Man.v — On th(5 Dewey decimal system of classifying and arranging books. 



J. B. Smith — On Dr. Gerstjccker's jiaper on the systematic position of the genus 

 Pleocoma Le C. 

 L. O. IIowARO— On Thoracanlha Jloridana Ashmead. 



(December 3, 1885.) 



J. B.Smith — On the occurrence o£ Pleocoma Behrenni in IJtali Territory. 

 J. B. Smith — On the larva of Aphorista rittaia. 



C. V. Riley — On the larval habits of TAxuh macvr and L. parcnx. 



E. A. SciiWARZ — On the food-habits of an undescribed calaiidrid beetle. 

 L.O.Howard — On the larval respiration in Cori/dalus vornutus. 



B. P. Mann — On the nsfi of the Dewey decimal system. 



(January 7, lS8f.. ) 



Annual address of the retiring President, Prof. C. V. Rik-y. 



H. 08Rr)n,v — Observations on certain 8i)ecies of Jlcmiptera. 



Otto Luggkr — On the life-habits of .l/^r-xiV^,* siihcijlindriens and Plati/pn.^ flai'icorniH. 



C. V. RiLKY — On thci l.irviB and pu|);o of Apkori^lii villala and Epipocun punctalua. 



