258 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. xii. 



Vol. XXXIV, No. 5 ; Vol. XXXV, No. il ; Vol. XXXVI, No. I. 



First Ann. Rep't. on the Noxious Insects of Illinois by B. D. Walsh, 2nd Edi- 

 tion. 1903. 



Proc. of the Canad. Institute, N. S., Vol. II, Nos. i, 2, 3 and 4. 



Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 1903, No. 2. 



Insect World, Vol. VII, No. 10. 



New York Agricultural Exp. Station. Geneva, N. Y., Bull., Nos. 239 and 240. 



U. S. Dept. of Agriculture ; Division of Entomology, Bull., No. 43. 



Philosophical Soc. Washington, Bull., No. XIV, pp. 233-246. 



Ohio Naturalist, Vol. IV, Nos. i, 2, 3. 



Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. XXXIX, Nos. 

 6-I4. 



Ann. del Museo Nacional de Montevideo, Vol. II, 1903. 



Mr. Davis of the field committee reported that the first meeting of the season had 

 been arranged ibr Sunday April 17 to Great Kill, Staten Island. 



On motion of Mr. Groth the librarian was instructed to send to Mrs. Elliman, 

 three copies of the JoURNAi, containing the resolutions on the death of Mr. A. R. 

 Grote. 



Mr. E. D. Harris read a paper on "Some Cicindelidfe recently received from 

 British Columbia." Discussed by Messrs. Beyer, Leng and Schaeffer. 



Mr. Roberts made some remarks on the Haliplidre and exibited specimens of 

 nearly all of the known species as well as several that were undoubtedly new. He 

 stated that he had found well defined characters for separating many of the species in 

 the peculiar form of the front tarsi. 



Meeting of April 19, 1904. 



Held at the American Museum of Natural History. President C. H. Roberts in 

 the chair and nine members and three visitors in attendance. 



The minutes of the previous meeting read and approved. 



The librarian reported the receipt of the following exchanges : 



Canadian Entomologist XXXVI, No. i. 



Deutsche Ent. Zeitschrift, No. i, 1904. 



The resignation of Mr. John D. Sherman as an active member of the society was 

 presented and on motion of Mr. Groth was accepted with regret. 



Mr. Davis exhibited a number of deformed insects, among which were several 

 deformed Cecropia moths, an American silk worm moth with the left forewing want- 

 ing several grasshoppers with bowed hind tibia; and a walking stick with the left 

 hind leg much aborted. 



Mr. Schaeffer, under " Some Notes on Coleoptera," remarked that he became 

 interested in the North American Cassidini while working on the material of this 

 tribe of Chrysomelidas collected by him in Brownsville and as Crotch's paper is of very 

 little help in the identi fication of our species he intends to publish a short synopsis of 

 the Cassidini with colored figures of every species, if possible. He exhibited repre- 

 sentatives of nearly all the species known to him to occur in the United States. He 

 stated that while Crotch enumerated fourteen species there are now known to occur 

 twenty-five species of Cassidini in the United States. The species formerly reported 

 as Cdssiiia viridis or thoracicn is not that species but C. nil>igi)iosa. As he became 



