112 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. xi. 



President, C. F. Groth ; Vice-President, Charles W. Leng ; Recording and 

 Corresponding Secretary, H. G. Barber ; Treasurer, L. H. Joutel ; Librarian, C. 

 Schaeffer ; Executive Committee, W. T. Davis, C. VV. Leng, Wm. Beutenmiiller, 

 Charles Palm and E. G. Love ; Publication Committee, Wm. Beutenmiiller, W. D. 

 Kearfott, H. Hug and Henry Bird. 



The following committees were appointed by the president : 



Field Committee : W. T. Davis and J. R. de la Torre-Bueno ; Auditing Com- 

 mittee : E. B. Southwick, H. G. Barber and C. Schaeffer ; Delegates to Scientific 

 Alliance : E. G. Love and T. D. O'Connor. 



The treasurer presented a bill for $18. "jg in payment for boxes used in storing 

 away the Journals, also, a bill for expressing Journals from Mr. Palm's residence to 

 the Museum for ^2.50. On motion these bills were allowed. 



Mr. Love moved that ^^25. 00 be transferred from the Society's account to the 

 Journal fund. Carried. 



Ellison A. Smyth, Jr. and C. T. Brues were elected active members of the Society. 



Dr. Walther Horn and Mr. Charles Dury were elected corresponding members. 



Adjournment. 



Meeting of January 20, 1903. 



Held at the American Museum of Natural History. President Groth in chair. 

 Fifteen members and three visitors present. 



The Librarian reported that he has made a complete list of the books belonging 

 to the Society, and that he assorted, counted and stored away in boxes the back vol- 

 umes of the Journal. 



Mr. Leng reported that the annual dinner would be held at the Hotel Endicott 

 on the evening of January 24. 



The Secretary read the resignation of Henry Bird from the Publication Com- 

 mittee, which was accepted with regrets. 



Mr. Meyer proposed the following amendment to the Constitution and By-Laws : 



Article IV, shall be amended to read "Officers shall be elected at the annual 

 meeting of the Society by a majority vote of the members present in person and voting 

 at that meeting. Proxies shall not be accepted." 



Mr. Davis stated that seven specimens of HomogLra carnosa Grote were found 

 at Lakehurst, New Jersey, resting on huckleberry bushes at twilight, on October 18 

 and 19, 1902. A specimen was given to the American Museum of Natural His- 

 tory, was identified by W. Beutenmiiller to be this species. Another specimen 

 was sent to Prof. John B. Smith, who stated that the identification was correct and that 

 the specimen was the first he had been able to add to his collection. It seems to be 

 a rare moth in this vicinity. Another moth new to the New Jersey list is Catocala 

 herodias Streck. Two specimens were captured on pine trees at Lakehurst, New 

 Jersey, on the 12th and 13th of July. 



Mr. Joutel exhibited a box of ivteXvQ yama-rnai moths, the specimens ranging in 

 color from uniformly dark lemon yellow, through various shades of red and combina- 

 tions of red and yellow, to some that were extremely dark reddish-brown, nearly 

 black. These were connected by intermediate forms with other examples which were 

 of a pale clay color. He stated that all of the individuals were raised from the same 



