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The Executive Committee reported that card-cases to contain cards giving the 

 meeting days and other information of the Society be placed at the Museum and other 

 similar places, and that the moneys of the Society be deposited in the name of the So- 

 ciety. 



Dr. Ottolenqui moved that the publication committee publish a new list of Lepi- 

 doptera, with Dr. Dyar as editor. After discussion the motion was lost, owing to the 

 want of funds. 



Mr. Blackburn was proposed as active member by Mr. Beulenmuller. 



Mr. Palm spoke of the Coleoptera collected by Mr. Kunze in Arizona, in which 

 he said that Plusiotis lecontei was found in the sawdust of old saw-mills, and that 

 Dynastes gyantii was found in numbers in the tops of ash trees. 



Mr. Joutel exhibited the flowers of the cruel-plant with insects hanging from 

 them, and he explained the manner in which the insects were caught by the flowers. 



Dr. Horn gave an informal talk about the region gone over by Mr. Kunze and 

 also about Coleoptera generally. The meeting then adjourned. 

 Meeting of October 20, 1896. 



Held at the American Museum of Natural History. 



President Zabriskie in the chair. Twelve members present. 



Colonel Nicholas Pike and Mr. C. V. Blackburn were elected as active members. 



Dr. H. G. Dyar spoke on the first larval stage of the Eucleida; (Limacodidoe). 

 This stage was discribed of ten difi'erent species inhabiting New York, and the rela- 

 tions of the species to each other were shown. The results confirm the position as- 

 signed to the family on larval characters derived from the adult larvse, leading back 

 to an ancestral form from which the whole group may have been derived. It appears 

 that this ancestral form must have been more like Lagoa than any other known larva, 

 a conclusion entirely in harmony with the author's previous results. 



Mr. Joutel gave a few additional notes on the cruel-plant (^J'kysiaiit/ins alietis). 

 After discussion of both subjects the meeting adjourned. 



Meeting of November 17, 1896. 



Held at the American Museum of Natural History. 



President Zabriskie in the chair. Ten members present. 



Dr. Seifert spoke of the experiments he was making with the larvce, pupje and 

 eggs of moths and butterflies with a view of finding the eft'ects of heat and cold on 

 them. The results were very marked, as shown by the dark forms of Arc/ia arge, 

 produced by cold and the light ones by heat, when placed near a series of normal 

 specimens. Many of the pupte, eggs and larvoe were kept in 120O Fahr. for 100 

 hours, others were frozen. He found that the eggs of some species slowly developed 

 in a freezing temperature. 



President Zabriskie exhibited several crickets from Florida. 



Mr. Beutenmiiller gave an account of the capture of the dog's-head butterfly on 

 Staten Island by Mr. Wm. T. Davis. He also said that it was probable that the 

 larva of Everyx versicolor spun a slight cocoon and pupated in the branches of its 

 food plant, which grows in swamps where there is always more or less water on the 

 ground, so that it would be unable to pupate like the others of the genus. After dis- 

 cussion the meeting adjourned. 



Meeting of December i, 1896. 



Held at the Amerian Museum of Natural History. 



