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Resolved, That the Postmaster-General be requested to instruct the American 

 delegate to vote for the same. 



The delegates of this Society were recjuested to also bring the resolutions before 

 the Scientific Alliance. 



The President appointed Messrs. E. G. Love, J. L. Zabriskie and H. G. Dyar 

 to act as auditors for 1897. 



Mr. I>oos on behalf of the Agassiz Chapter asked permission to join our field 

 meetings. On motion the Chapter was invited to take part in our field meetings. 



The Publication Committee reported that they had arranged for two lectures ; 

 one by Prof. Lyman A. Best, on Insect Mimicry, on April lolh, and the other by Dr. 

 E. G. Love on the Study of Insects and their Transformations on April 24th. 



Mr. Zabriskie exhibited the secondary parasites on C/ilamys pluata,\\\Q generic 

 name of which he stated was Teterasticus. He also showed the parasite from the 

 eggs of Chelymorpha argus. 



A paper on the Protective value of Action, Volitional or otherwise in " Protec- 

 tive Mimicry," by Mr. F. M. Webster, was read and discussed by the members (antea, 

 p. 67). 



Meeting of April 6, 1S97. 



Held at the American Museum of Natural History. 



President Palm in the chair. Ten members present. 



The Corresponding Secretary reported that he had sent the Resolutions on 

 postage, which were offered at the last meeting, to the Postmaster General. Dr. 

 Dyar was instructed to notify other scieiitillc societies of the resolutions, and to re- 

 quest their cooperation. 



A retjuest from the Swiss Entomological Society, to e.xchange publications was 

 received and referred to the Publication Committee. 



Tickets for the annual reception of the New York Microscopical Society were 

 received and acknowledged with thanks. 



The Publicalion Committee reported that final arrangements had been made for 

 the two public lectures by the Society, and tickets for the same were distributed. 



Dr. Dyar spoke on the geographical distribution of the Eucleida; with relation 

 to past geological conditions. Maps of the former distribution of land and water 

 were shown, so far back as the early Mesozoic (Triassic). It was shown that on 

 the assumption that the Eucleidrc had never crossed considerable areas of water, that 

 it was necessary to regard their origin as dating from this early period. Their present 

 geograi)hical distribution was also explained. There are no known fossils in this 

 fimily, which renders direct palaiontological evidence unavailable. Mesozoic insects 

 in general are known to be similar to those now existant as remarked by Germar, and 

 Bar is of the opinion that the absence of flowers in the Carboniferous is no proof of 

 the absence of Lepidoptera. A mine of a Tineid is known from the Cretaceous. 

 Now the Eucleida;, in respect to the moths are not so highly specialized as many 

 Tineids, and it seems possible that they may have existed in the Triassic in spite of 

 the absence of fossil Lepidoptera an order which seems unusually poorly represented 

 in the rocks. However, Dr. Dyar showed conditions which may have been capable 

 of transporting the Eucleidct across areas of water, showing that the present argu- 

 ment may be more interesting than conclusive. After discussion, adjournment. 



