211 [Scudder. 



Dr. -A. A. Gould, in referring to the recent death of Mr. 

 Hugh Cuniing of London, gave a sketch of his hfe and 

 scientific services. 



A letter of resignation as Curator of Herpetology from 

 Dr. F. H. Brown was read. It was voted that his resigna- 

 tion be accepted, and on motion of Dr. White, a committee 

 of two, consisting of Dr. J. C. White and Mr. F. W. Put- 

 nam, were appointed to nominate a successor. 



Mr. Putnam, in referring to two young Gar Pike presented 

 this evening, said that they were the only specimens in the 

 Society's collection, showing clearly the banded structure of 

 the young of this species, which by Richardson was described 

 as the Lepidosteus Jmronensis. This species has received 

 three names from DeKay and another authority, while a 

 still younger form was placed in a distinct genus by Rafin- 

 esque. 



The following paper was read : 



Notes on some Odonata from the White Mountains of 

 liTEW Hampshjre. By. S. H. Scudder. 



The following notes have reference mostly to the colors during life 

 of some species of Odonata taken in the summer of 1862 by my 

 valued friend, the late Mr. C. A. ShurtlefF, and myself during a visit 

 of a few weeks at the Glen, White Mountains. Most of them were 

 taken at Hermit Lake, a small pool of water situated in the forest at 

 the mouth of Tuckerman's Ravine, where they were so abundant that 

 dozens of specimens of a single species might be taken in a single 

 hour; all our visits to this spot taken together did not amount to 

 more than three or four hours, yet some hundreds of specimens were 

 brought away. In proportion to the number of specimens obtained, 

 very many were of species as yet undescribed, especially in the genus 

 Cordulia, where it proved to be the case with all of them. Doubt- 

 less many, if not all, of these are identical with those of northern habi- 

 tats in Selys' Collection, of which the names only are mentioned in 

 Hagen's Synopsis. Nine species in all are referred to, of which eight 

 are believed to be new. 



Cordulegaster lateralis nov. sp. 



5 . Vertex and rhinarium black ; front, epistoma and labrum, except 

 the anterior edge of the latter, which is reddish-brown, very pale green 

 (as in life) ; labium luteous (in hfe dull pale reddish-brown) ; occiput 



