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

 be popular. 



Prof. Peabody would not recommend Kirby & Spence nor West- 

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

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

 ologist, who required no stimulant to interest him. 



Prof Lintner would not recommend Kirby & Spence, nor Westwood. 

 He recommends Harris and Packard. He thinks children are born 

 naturalists, and that synopses, especially if illustrated would be very 

 useful. 



Prof. VVestcott says he recommends 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 personal 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 nmiion of Prof. Underwood the club then adjourned, to meet 

 again under the rules, at the next meeting of the A. A. AS. 



JOHN B. SMITH, Secretary. 



The systematic position of the genus Triprocris Grt. 



By H. B. Moschler, Kronforstchen near Bautzen. 



I published in Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung, 1885, p. 203 etc., 

 a treatise on Mr. Smith's Notes on the systematic position of some North 

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

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

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

 arid myself and Triprocris is among them. Since that time, Mr. Neu- 

 n was kind enough to send me a fine specimen of Triprocris Smith 

 sonianus Clem., collected in Texas, and I will give my view on the 



made 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 body, especially the antenna', shows a metallic hue like those 

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