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meant. Such a work could not have synopses, because that would not 

 be popular, 



Prot". Peabody would not recommcnel Kiiby tt Spence nor West- 

 wood, for American students. He thinks that a student who could over- 

 come those works, anti still retain an interest, would be a born Entom- 

 ologist, who required no stimulant to interest him. 



Prof Lintner would not recommend Kirb\ & Spence, nor Westwood. 

 He recommends Harris and Packard. He thinks children are born 

 naturalists, ami that svnopses, especially if illustrated would be ver\- 

 useful. 



Prof. W'estcott says he rece)mmends Harris, Packard, and Le Baron's 

 4th Report, which is excellent so far as it goes; and there were several 

 other reports that would be very useful. 



Prof Riley said there is a difficulty in recommending public docu- 

 ments, because they are not readily obtainable in the ordinary course 

 of trade. 



Prof, Osborn thinks persona! contact among Entomologists the best 

 way to create and sustain interest in the study. 



Further discussion brought forth no new suggestions, though many 

 minor difficulties in the way of producing a popular and yet valuable 

 work were discussed. 



On motion of Prof Underwood the club then adjourned, to meet 

 again under the rules, at the ne.xt meeting of the A. A.A.S. 



JOHN B. SMITH, Secretary. 



The systematic position of the genus Triprocris Grt. 

 By H. B. Moschler, Kronforstchen near Bautzen. 



I published in Stett^ner Entcimologische Zeitung, 1885, p. 203 etc.. 

 a treatise on Mr. Smith's Notes on the systematic {)osition of some Nortli 

 American Lepidoptera and assented to this author's view, that none of 

 the genera, placed in the family Zygcpnidae by several North American 

 authors, belong to it: but there were a few genera unknown to Mr. Smith 

 and myself and 7)7y>/-(7(;T/j is among them. Since that time, Mr. Neu- 

 mogen was kind enough to send me a fine specimen o{ Triprocris Smith- 

 soniamis Clem., collected in Te.xas, and I will give my view on the 

 systematic position of this species, stated by an exact examination of my 

 example. 



In size this species is similar to the species of the genus hio Leach, 

 and the bodv. especially the antcnniv, shows a metallic hue like those 

 ^iiecies. 



