Dec. 1897.] Proceedings of the Societv. 207 



Mr. BeutenmiiUer informed the Society of the sudden death of Mr. Martin L. 



^'°^ " Martin Larson Linell was born at Gronby, Sweden, June 24, 1849, and died 

 suddenly May 3. 1897, of heart failure. He matriculated at the University of Lund 

 Sweden in 1 870. His father intended to fit him for the mmistry, out he left the Uni- 

 versity at the end of his third year for the railway mail service. In 1879 he married 

 and came to America, being employed first in a chemical laboratory m Brooklyn and 

 afterwards becoming Curator of the Brooklyn Entomological Society In 1888 he 

 was appointed an aid in the Department of Insects in the United States Na lond 

 Museum, which position he held at the [time of his death. He was an invaluable 

 museum worker, and during his>ine years in Washington he worked over and ar- 

 ranged a very large share of the collection, and had recently began describmg all of 

 the new coleoptera." A bibliography of his published wiitings will be printed m the 



Entomological News. 



Mekting of JuxE 21, 1897. 



Held at the American Museum of Natural History. 



President Palm in the chair. Ten members present. 



The advisability of holding a field meeting on July 4th was discussed and left 

 in the hands of the field committee for action. 



Mr. Palm exhibited a number of moths from Arizona, amongst which was an un- 

 identified cossid. . . , •_!, 



Mr. Munch showed a specimen of Purpuricenus humcrahs var axillaris which 



he had bred. 



Meeting of October 5, 1897. 



Held at the American Museum of Natural History. 



Vice-President Dr. Love in the chair. Eleven members present. 



Mr. Beyer proposed for membership Mr. Charles Nushardt. 



Mr Joutel reported on the donations of insects for the auction sale by Mrs. blos- 

 son, Messrs. Love, Seifert, Pahn, Shoemaker, Ottolengui, Dyar. Cockerell, Doll, 

 Miinch, Joutel and BeutenmuUer. A vote of thanks was given to all for their gen- 



erous donations. . r„„„^ 



Prof Cockerell communicated a note on the three species of Xennglossa, lound 

 in New Mexico. He stated that these bees are commonly found in his locality and 

 visit the flowers of Cucurhita, and that they are almost confined to this genus of 

 flowers X. strenua is described by him as A^. cucurbitarum, but Mr. I- ox s ated 

 that it agrees with Cresson's Melissodes stnnua. It is, however, a true Xenoglossa. 

 Dr Dyar spoke on the Pyromorphid^ found in New York, The family is a 

 small one, allied to the Zyg^nid.. of Europe and more remotely to *« Lucleid^^ 

 There are three species in New York, Harrisina a.n-ricana, Acoloithus falsarius and 

 P.ro,norpha dunidiata. The larva of the first is familiar yet it needs fu. her re^ 

 search, as there are two forms which may be different species. One form, described 

 by Harris, is yellow with black warts ; the other is banded with purple and has a 

 .^ite late;al L. The latter has not been bred recently. i/<.v.^«« is gregarious 

 and feeds on the leaves of grape and woodbine. The larva supposed to be Acoloitkus 



