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optera in the White Mountains with Mrs. Sherman and Messrs. Dodge and 

 Sheriff. He found the ponds too full for the best water beetle collecting but 

 took an extraordinary number of Carabus chamissonis at Lake of the Clouds; 

 and a specimen of Cicindela longilabris under a stone at over 5,000 ft. eleva- 

 tion. Mr. Sherman also exhibited the first description of Coleoptera in an 

 American work, being the description of Anisandrus pyri by W. D. Peck, in an 

 article entitled " On the Insects which Destroy the Young Branches of the 

 Pear-tree and the Leading Shoots of the Weymouth Pine " in the Mass. Agl. 

 Rep. and Journ. for Jan., 181 7. 



Mr. Olsen spoke briefly of his collections of Hemiptera in Massachusetts, 

 Pennsylvania and Long Island, saying that he had not found insects numerous 

 this year. 



Mr. Dow said he had been on the go all summer, having made two trips 

 to Claremont, N. H., two to Williamstown, Mass., and several to Lahaway ; 

 the specimens taken, of which he exhibited the first box, he placed entirely at 

 the service of his friends, reserving only certain special desiderata for Messrs. 

 Davis, Olsen and Bequaert. 



Dr. Ottolengui, one of the charter members of the society, described his 

 journey through Alberta, Vancouver, California and the Grand Canyon, his 

 pleasant visits with Mr. Sanson at Banff' and Van Duzee at San Francisco, 

 and told of some of the rare Plusia, etc., he had secured, in part from Mr. 

 Sanson. He dwelt especially on the abundance of Pamphila on a flowering 

 hedge in Vancouver and again on blue aster-like flowers at Grand Canyon and 

 on the number of Longhorn beetles found at dusk on the hotel wall in the 

 Canadian Rockies. 



Mr. Shoemaker spoke of his collecting experiences at Washington, D. C, 

 in the Catskill Mts., and on Long Island, recording especially the capture of 

 two butterflies, Colias eurytheme near east New York and Apatura clyton, 

 found on silver poplar where beetles had caused the sap to flow, butterflies of 

 southern distribution and rare on Long Island. 



Dr. Lutz spoke of his journey with Mr. Rehn to Tucson and several of the 

 mountain ranges of southern Arizona, leaving New York the latter part of 

 June, and ending with a visit to Los Angeles and San Francisco, where he met 

 Nunenmacher, Van Dyke, Van Duzee and other California entomologists at a 

 meeting of the Pacific Entomological Society. He spoke especially of the 

 excellent results of using a cheesecloth tent with lanterns inside for light 

 collecting and of the insects collected at light in Texas while the train was 

 detained in a swamp. 



Mr. Engelhardt said his principal journey through southern California to 

 Puget Sound was devoted mainly to marine invertebrates but with some 

 entomological work included. Dr. Fenyes was visited in Pasadena, also 

 Fordyce Grinnell, with whom he had a 30 mile walk through the Sierra Madre, 

 and Dr. Van Dyke in San Francisco. 



The ascent of Mt. Hood with blizzard weather alternating with a sun- 



