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Minutes of February 3. 



A regular meeting of the New York Entomological Society was held 

 at 8:00 P.M., on February 3, 1920, in the American Museum of Natural His- 

 tory, President L. B. Woodruff in the chair, with seventeen members present. 



Mr. Notman, as chairman of the Publication Committee, reported the 

 resignation of Charles Schaeffer as editor and his own election as his suc- 

 cessor. 



On motion of Mr. Leng, the Society recorded a vote of thanks to Mr. 

 Schaeffer for his long years of service and splendid results. 



Letters from Dr. Walther Horn and Colonel Casey were read. 



Mr. Weiss read a paper on " Coleoptera of the Evening Primrose " which 

 will be published elsewhere. He showed the adults and larvae and their work. 



Mr. Bischoff exhibited " Local Species of Anthonomus," 21 already listed 

 in " Insects of X. J." and five additional, viz. : A. rufipennis, A. likensis, A. 

 molochinns, A. hamameUdis, A. robinsoni. He gave also copious notes on the 

 conditions under which each species was found. 



Dr. Lutz read some extracts from " Philippine Wasp Studies " by F. X. 

 Williams, being Bull. 14, Report of work of the Exp. Sta. Hawaiian Sugar 

 Planters Association, praising it highly. 



Dr. Bequaert also praised the work, referring particularly to the interest- 

 ing account of Stenogaster and the evidence adduced that wasps learn some- 

 thiniz by personal excerience. 



