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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL CLUB OF THE AMERICAN AS- 

 SOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. 



Room 56, Maxwell House, Nashville, Tenn., Aug. 31, 1877. 



Mr. Grote was called to the chair, and congratulated the meeting that there were 

 found members from the South intere.sted in the science of Entomology, and regretted 

 the absence of the President of the Club and other officers. A letter was read from Pre- 

 sident LeConte as follows : 



Philadelphia, Aug. 24th, 1877. 



Secretary/ of the Entom. Club Am. Assoc. Adv. Sci. Nashville, Tenn. : 



Deak Sir, — I beg that you will express to the Entomological Club of the Associa- 

 tion my great regret that I am not able to attend the meeting at Nashville. It was my 

 intention to be jjresent, but I find now at the last moment that it will be extremely in- 

 convenient for me to leave this city. I greatly wished to take part in the discussion on 

 nomenclature, but I have already expressed myself so strongly as against such changes 

 as are produced by the rehabilitation of forgotten or disused names, that I think my 

 opinions are fully understood by my colleagues. 



Very truly yours, 



John L. LeConte. 



The Secretary's report of last yeait's meeting was received and adopted. 



The chair drew the attention of the Club to the report of Capt. Dall on the subject 

 of Zoological Nomenclature made at this meeting, and deprecated any separate action on 

 the part of the Club. 



The following resolutions were then passed : 



^('so/(rf/— That since the Association has under consideration the subject of Nomen- 

 clature, the present Committee of the Club on that subject, consisting of LeConte, Riley, 

 Saunders, Scudder and Grote, be continued to re]Kirt at next meeting. 



Ji'esdlivcl — -That a request be made on the part of the Club to the Standing Cora- 

 mittee of the Association, that copies of Capt. Dall's report on Zoological Nomenclature 

 be printed and distributed to all active members of the Club before the issuance of the 

 Nashville volume, so that the matter may be duly considered before the next meeting of 

 the Club. 



The meeting then entered into an election for officers for the next meeting, with the 

 following result : 



President: James A. Linter, of Albany, N. Y. 



Vice-President : Wm. Saunders, of London, Ontario. 



Scortary : B. Picknian Mann, ol Cambridge, Mass. 



Mr. Grote exhibited specimens in all stages of the New Pine Moth, Neph<ypteryx 

 Zimmermani. He referred to Mr. Meehan's remarks after the reading of the paper before 

 the Association on Thursday last, that this was probably the insect so destructive to the 

 Scotch Pine about Pliiladelphia. 



Prof. Nicholson stated that he thought from Mr. Grote's description and specimens 

 that this insect was the one noticed as attacking the Scotch Pine near KnoxviUe. The 

 trees had been imported from the north. 



Mr. Grote alluded to the migratory habits of the Cotton Worm, and stated that in 

 his original paper (Hartford Meeting) he had shown that the moth hybernated, but died 

 before it could find cotton on which it could oviposit the ensuing year. Where the moth 

 state was not reached the chrysalis perished in cold winters over the cotton belt. The 

 broods were irregular, occurring in the same locality some years as early as June, some 

 years as late as September. 



Prof. Stubbs stated that in the main Mr. Grote's theory of a progression from south 

 to north was, he was satisfied, correct. At the same time he called attention to occasions 



