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Miss Louise Joutel was elected an active member on nomination by Mr. 

 Davis, the by-laws being suspended to permit of immediate action. 



A picture of Mrs. Heidemann was presented by Mr. Weiss and a photo- 

 graph of her late husband. Otto Heidemann, was shown by Mr. Davis. 



The death of Bertil Robert Poppius on November 2-] last was noted by 

 the President. He was a Finnish author who had contributed largely to 

 knowledge of Hemiptera and Arctic Carabidse. 



A letter from our member, S. G. Rich, now in South Africa, was shown 

 by Mr. Davis. 



Mr. Harris read a paper on " Some White Mountain Cicindelce " and ex- 

 hibited his collection of C. ancocisconensis ; in connection therewith he 

 showed a facsimile of the " Family Visitor " in which appeared the original 

 description and discussed the names dozviana. erieiisis and Carolina' proposed 

 by Casey for the forms occurring at other than the type locality, showing 

 that in his long series, the characters assigned to the first two were not con- 

 stant. He gave also the origin of the specific name, derived from Capt. John 

 Smith's early name for the White Mts., and several facts indicating that the 

 burrows of some species of Cicindela are in situations inundated at certain 

 seasons. 



The paper was discussed by several members. Mr. Davis spoke of the 

 series of C. Carolines collected by Messrs. Brimley and Frank Sherman as 

 indicating no greater differentiation than that exhibited by series of eriensis 

 and dowiana ; and of his finding C. marginipennis on islands in the Delaware 

 River at Callicoon, where the river overflowed the locality in spring. 



The President questioned the validity of the publication of the descrip- 

 tion of C. ancocisconensis in the newspaper " Family Visitor," stating that 

 Van Duzee in cataloging Hemiptera rejected newspaper publications as 

 invalid. (See section 13, page 6, The Entomological Code, by Banks & 

 Caudell.) This question was discussed by several members, Mr. Sherman 

 pointing out that the strict application of the rule would invalidate many 

 early published names. 



Mr. Sherman exhibited a photograph made for him by the Chicago Library, 

 of Wm. Couper's list of Coleoptera found in the Province of Quebec, pub- 

 lished in the rare " Canadian Sportsman and Naturalist " ; also an early price 

 list of Texan Coleoptera published by Belfrage in the " Psyche " Advertiser. 

 Mr. Mutchler mentioned that the first named was in A. M. N. H. Library. 



Mr. Dickerson read a paper " Notes on Leptobyrsa rhododendri," which 

 was discussed by Dr. Forbes, Messrs. Barber, Engelhardt and Bird, the latter 

 stating that in his experience the best control was attained by a spray of 

 concentrated tobacco solution mixed with whale-oil soap. 



Mr. J. W. Angell brought up the question of the color of Cicindela 6-gtcttata 

 turning blue with age. Mr. Davis said he had found dead specimens under 

 bark that were blue and Mr. Harris said very old cabinet specimens, fifty 

 years old perhaps, might turn. 



