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reported that owing to the absence of a great many of the delegates no final action 

 was taken. All of the members present expressed themselves as in favor of such an 

 organization. It was expected that the final adoption of the plan and organization 

 of such a society would be accomplished during the winter session of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science which was to be held in New York City 

 during the holidays. 



Mr. Schaeffer said that as he had made no collecting trip for the Museum this 

 summer he had found considerable time to study some of the remaining unidentified 

 material from his former expeditions in Texas and Arizona. All or nearly all of the 

 remaining material in the families Chrysomelidae and Anthribidce had been studied and 

 the results published in the Transactions of the American Entomological Society and 

 in the Brooklyn Museum Bulletin. He remarked on some changes made in the latest 

 catalogue of the Anthribidje, with some of which he did not agree. He had found 

 the Brownsville, Texas, region especially rich in this family, as twenty -one species 

 are known to occur there. The Anthribid fauna of the Huachuca Mountains, Ari- 

 zona, was not so rich, but some interesting forms occurred there, as all proved to be 

 new. In exhibiting a collection of nearly all of the known North American Anthri- 

 bidse he pointed out the distinguishing or remarkable characters of some of the new 

 genera and species and also mentioned that his genus Phanosohna of which he 

 showed a second species from Arizona is synonymous with Discotenes. 



Mr. Davis exhibited specimens of Mantispa brunnea and read some notes con- 

 cerning the occurrence of this species at Lakehurst, N. J. He remarked that he had 

 been able to trace the presence of this insect, when not too far away, by their peculiar 

 odor, similar to that of certain flies. 



Mr. Barber read a paper on the subfamily Alydinse of the family Coreida. He 

 drew a diagram of Alydtis eurinus and explained the significance of the distinguish- 

 ing characters used in separating the different genera, such as the relative length of 

 the first segment of antennae to length of head, relative length of hind femora, charac- 

 ter of humeral angle, length of corium relative to membrane and whether the apical 

 margin of corium was straight or sinuate. Among other things he stated that this 

 subfamily was world-wide in its distribution, but of the twenty-one genera represented 

 but six occur in the western hemisphere, all of which have representatives occurring 

 in North America. At present there are recorded from North America, including 

 the West Indies, fourteen species, of which nine had been listed for the United 

 States, and he had recently added another species from the Huachuca Mountains of 

 Arizona. He also gave the structural characters of each of the genera and a list of 

 the species occurring within the United States as well as their habitat. Specimens 

 of all of the known species but one were shown. 



H. G. Barber, 



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