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The president appointed J. A. Grossbeck and C. E. Olsen as a field com- 

 mittee. 



Mr. Wheat exhibited a copy of the new Jersey List of Insects, the first 

 copy seen by the members. 



Mr. Leng, the president, gave his annual address, in which he told how the 

 Society had advanced within the past few years, what good scientific work 

 some of the members were doing, and suggested ways by which the members 

 might increase the interest in the Society and the Journal. 



Dr. R. C. Osburn reported the capture of Eristalis arbustorum L., a widely 

 distributed European form, at Fort Lee by himself and at Lakehurst by Mr. 

 G. P. Engelhardt, and also the capture of the western Eristalis latifrons Loew 

 on Long Island by Mr. Engelhardt. 



Mr. R. P. Dow discussed the pronunciation of some entomological names. 



Mr. Leng reported the capture of a new species of Dineufes at Clayton, 

 Ga., by Mr. Davis and himself, and also a new species of Staphylinid repre- 

 senting a new genus taken at Roselle Park, N. J. 



Mr. Davis gave some notes on the occurrence of Vanessa milbcrti in this 

 locality. 



Society adjourned. 



E. L. DiCKERSON, 



Secretary. 

 Meeting of January 17, 191 1. 



A regular meeting of the New York Entomological Society was held in 

 the American Museum of Natural History, January 17, 191 1, at 8.15 P. M. with 

 President Leng in the chair and twenty-three members present. 



Minutes of previous meeting read and approved. 



Mr. Davis reported that $196 had been subscribed by the members for the 

 Seifert collection and that $50 appropriated from the treasury would be used 

 to make up the required amount of $250.00. 



The curator Dr. Lutz reported that the members interested were working 

 over the Parnidae in the local collection of Coleoptera and that Mr, Grossbeck 

 had been arranging the Coleoptera and Lepidoptera. He also announced that 

 Mr. Leng had been appointed honorary curator of Coleoptera in the Museum. 



Dr. Osburn exhibited a picture of Professor Camillo Rodain accompany- 

 ing a memorial notice written by Professor Bezzi and said he would be glad 

 to present the picture to the society for its collection. Field pictures were 

 also presented by Mr. Sleight. Some pictures of entomologists mounted for 

 the Society's collection were exhibited by Dr. Lutz. 



Mr. Pollard, chairman of the dinner committee, stated that committees 

 had been appointed by the Newark and Brooklyn Entomological Societies and 

 that notices would be sent out as soon as arrangements were completed. 



Mr. Schaeffer, of the publication committee, reported that plenty of mate- 

 rial was on hand for the next number of the Journal. Moved by Dr. Lutz 

 and carried that Mr. Barber be appointed a committee of one to take charge 

 of the short notes to be published in the Journal. 



