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On motion the Secretary was instructed to convey to Mrs. Slosson the thanks of 

 the Society for her donation of insects to be sold at auction. 



Mr. Schaeffer stated that he would like to make a correction to the minutes 

 printed in the June number of the Joctrnal as follows : " Mr. Beutenmiiller exhibited 

 in the meeting of December, a Cassida from Canada as thoracica, and not as viridis 

 as wrongly stated in the footnote under the minutes of the meeting of January 20, 

 in Vol. XI, No. 2, p. 113. He showed at the same time an article in Le Natur- 

 aliste Canadien on Cassida thoracica recently found in Canada and stated that he 

 had received his specimens from that author as C. thoracica. This name was pro- 

 nounced by me as incorrect and on question I stated that I think it is C. viridis but 

 was not quite sure about it yet." 



Moved by Mr. Joutel and duly seconded that a committee be appointed by the 

 chair to draft resolutions on the death of Mr. A. R. Grote. Carried. 



Various members of the Society gave an account of their summer's collecting 

 experiences. Mr. Leng made a few remarks concerning the trip which he made to 

 West Virginia in company with Dr. Love. They had been disappointed in not being 

 able to secure any Cychrus ridingsii but had obtained a few C. andretasit, one species 

 of Nomaretus and a number of other good species of Coleoptera. 



Dr. Seifert exhibited several hundred spread specimens of Salnilodes arcasaria 

 Walk, which he had bred. 



Mr. Comstock reported that he had taken a number of Feniseca tarquiniiis near 

 the city the past summer. 



Mr. Schaeffer exhibited some Coleoptera taken this year on his collecting trip to 

 Brownsville, Texas, and made remarks on a few of the species. He was generally 

 satisfied with the results of the trip but was a little disappointed with the April col- 

 lecting, as he had expected to get different species during this month than Dietz and 

 Wickham had taken during June and July ; but he found few new things to reward him. 



Mr. Davis exhibited a copy of Mr. A. R. Grote's "Hawk Moths of North 

 America" printed by Homeyer and Myer, at Bremen, 1886, remarking that the title 

 had not been included in the list of works on North American Entomology published 

 in 1900 as Bulletin No. 24 N. S., by the U. S. Department of Agriculture. 



Mr. Joutel remarked on the stndulation of Cychrus viduus. On capturing a 

 specimen of this species he was much surprised to hear it make a squeaking noise, 

 gomewhat like the rustling of a dried leaf. On examination he found a ridge or proc- 

 ess jutting out from the underside of the elytra and fitung into a groove at the side 

 of the two last segments of the abdomen. The noise was produced by bending down 

 jhe end of the abdomen. Both sexes are able to stridulate. 



Mr. Barber reported on the taking of one specimen of Anthophilax malachiticus 

 at Ft. Montgomery, N. Y., on May 30, of this year. He exhibited twelve specimens 

 of Cychrus elevatus which he had taken at Langdon, Mo., in August. 



Meeting of October. 20, 1903. 



Held at the American Museum of Natural History. President C. F. Groth in 

 the chair with thirteen members present. 



On motion of Mr. Leng the regular order of business was suspended and the 

 reading of papers and scientific discussion preceded the regular business. 



Mr. C. T. Brues spoke on the dipterous family Phoridse and exhibited a collec- 



