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Mr. Schaeffer exhibited a specimen of Matispa brunnea taken in Lakehurst, N. J, , 

 and a specimen of Ti achykele blondeli from Fresno Co., Cal. 



Mr. Lyon spoke on the larva of Selandria caryi£, which is covered with long 

 filaments of a waxy secretion. 



Meeting of November 19, 1901. 



Held at the American Museum of Natural History. 



Mr. William Beutenmiiller, president, in the chair, and fifteen members and 

 four visitors present. 



The secretary being absent at the opening of the meeting, on motion of Mr. 

 Joutel duly seconded Mr. Weeks was appointed secretary /ro iem. 



The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. The secretary read 

 the name of Mr. J. R. de la Torre Bueno of No. 437, Central Park West, proposed by 

 Mr. Beutenmiiller as an active member. 



Mr. Joutel proposed Dr. James D. Needham, of Lake Forest University, Lake 

 Forest, Illinois, as a corresponding secretary. 



A letter from Dr. N. L. Britton, secretary of the council of the Scientific Alliance 

 of New York, addressed to the secretary of the Society was read giving notice that in 

 pursuance of article 7 of the constitution a total assessment of $200 had been levied 

 upon all the societies and that the amount apportioned to the Entomological Society 

 was ^7, payable to Dr. E. G. Love, treasurer of the Council, and that payment 

 might be made in installments, if preferable, of $3.50, one before Jan. i, 1902, and 

 the other before April I, 1902. 



On motion of Mr. Weeks, duly seconded, the treasurer was authorized to pay 

 the sum of $"], the amount of the assessment due from the Society. 



Mr. Beutenmiiller reported that he had received a letter from Mrs. Slosson 

 which was accompanied by specimens of lepidoptera for disposal at the annual auction 

 sale to be held by the Society, and on motion of Mr. Weeks, the secretary was di- 

 rected to express to Mrs. Slosson the thanks of the Society therefor. 



Mr. Beutenmiiller stated that at the next meeting he would have ready for in- 

 spection by the members the various publications received as exchanges and that it 

 would be necessary to appoint a committee to take charge of the same and also of 

 such as might be received hereafter. 



Dr. Edwin J. Van Dyke, of San Francisco, California, then spoke upon the sub- 

 ject of the evening, "Observations upon the Faunal Regions of California from the 

 standpoint of a Coleopterist." California is some 800 miles in length by 200 in 

 width and is naturally divided longitudinally into three .sections by the Coast Range 

 and the Sierra Nevadas. The latter have an altitude of some 6,000 to 15,000 feet 

 and form a boundary between the arid lands of the eastern portion and the greater 

 bulk of the two western portions. These arid lands widen at the south by reason of 

 the western trend of the Sierras and here include the valleys of Mono, Owen's and 

 Death and portions of the Mojave and Colorado deserts. The Coast Range practi- 

 cally ends at Santa Barbara, although the islands directly south may have originally 

 formed a continuation before submergence of the intervening territory. The altitude 

 of this range varies from 1,000 to 10,000 feet, the latter height chiefly obtaining in 

 the north. This range constitutes the dividing line between the narrow belt of coast 



