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is solitary, and feeds on grape, but rests on the withered portion of the leaf, with 

 which its brown color harmonizes. A specimen of the larva of this species was shown. 

 The larva oi Pyromorpha, previously unknown, was discovered and bred last season. 

 It is brown and feeds on dead leaves on the ground. The larvre were bred on oak 

 leaves, and some inflated specimens were shown. 



Mr Beutenmuller said that he has found Harrisina aiiiericaiia on the leaves of 

 Judas tree {Cera's canadensis) in Central Park, and found Pyromorpha dimidiata at 

 Parkville, Long Island, amongst grass at the border of a dense woods, and that the 

 insect was very local, being confined to only a short stretch of grass. The flight is 

 short and soft, thus rendering it easy to capture. 



Rev. Zabriskie .showed Phengodes phimosa from Flatbush, Long Island, and 

 Phellopsis obcordafa from White Lake, N. Y. , and also a borer, unknown to him, 

 in the stems of currant. 



Mr. Mlinch exhibited some beetles taken by him during the past season. Ad- 

 journment. 



Meeting of October i6, 1897, 



Held at the American Museum of Natural History. 



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



Mr. Charles Nushardt was elected an active member. Mr. Beutenmuller pro- 

 posed Mr. C. F. Hartman for active membership. 



Mr. Beutenmuller gave some notes on the genus Anf/ioc/iaris. He stated that 

 this name had to be dropped in preference to the name Euchloe. This last name was 

 proposed by Hiibner (Verzeich. l^ek. Schmett. , l8i6) and the former by Boisduval 

 (Spec. Gen., I, 1836, p. 556). He further stated that we had too many species in our 

 list and that in long series of sara and the var. reakirtii which run from white to yel- 

 low, Stella and julia could not be picked out. Thoosa Scudder is probably the same 

 as reakirtii 9 and the specimens in the Neumoegen collection from which descriptions 

 were made by W. H. Edwards (Can. Ent., xi, p. 87) were without doubt the same 

 as reakirtii, but the type in Scudder' s collection must be examined to definitely settle 

 this question. Flora, he thought was a small reakirtii, and ausonides certainly noth- 

 ing more than a race of the European ausonia. Strecker so places the species in 

 his catalogue. Hyantis is suspiciously close to ausonides arfd may prove to be the 

 summer brood. All the specimens of ausonides in the Hy. Edwards' collection were 

 taken from March to May and all the hyantis in July. Rosa is without much doubt 

 a variety of olynipia. A. cretisa, cctliura, pima, lanceolata and genutia are good 

 species. A. morrisonii was not known to him. 



It is our painful duty to herewith announce the death of Dr. George H. Horn, 

 the well known and eminent coleopterist. He died at Philadelphia, Pa., November 

 25, 1897, in his fifty eighth year of age. 



