Club then adjourned to Monday August 15th, at 9 A. M. 



In the evening a very pleasant party met at Mr. Graef's residence in 

 Brooklyn where the evening was spent in examining .Air. Graef's collection 

 and discussing the merits of the collation provided. 



Monday, August 15th. — Club met pursuant to adjournment, 8 mem- 

 bers present. In the absenceof Prof. Comstoi k. Prof. Lintner was elect- 

 ed President pro tern, Mr Emerton read a paper by Prof. L. M. Under- 

 wood on die literature of the North American Spiders, reviewing tin- 

 work thus far done in the Aracftnidce.* 



Mr. Smith made some remarks on the paper mentioning the work 

 being done by students of the group and that the U. S. National Museum 

 was accumulating a very fair collection in the class. He also defended the 

 practice of describing species as justifiable under some circumstances in 

 stimulating or exciting interest and claims that nothing is so discouraging 

 to beginners as a lot of material which is unnamed and unnameable until 

 some one monographs the whole. 



Mr. Emerton said that he intended to continue his work on the New 

 England Spiders and will keep his types at least until the work is all 

 done. He was opposed to hasty descriptions, and to hasty identification 

 of old species where there is nothing to identify them by. He preferred to 

 give a new name to an insect to identifying it with an old name unless he 

 was perfectly sure of his identification. 



Dr. Hoy spoke on the peculiarities of the Lepidopterous Fauna of 

 Racine, describing the location of the place and enumerating some of the 

 Southern butterflies ami moths that have been taken there — among them 

 /'di, is mexicana, Apatura cel/is, Argus labruscce, Dilophonota ello and Ere- 

 bus zenobia. 



Adjourned until Tuesday, August 16th, at 9 A. M. 



On the afternoon of the 10th the Entomologists and Botanists joined 

 in an Excursion by Steamer to Sandy Hook which proved an interesting 

 and agreeable one. 



Tuesday, August 1 6th — Club met at 9 A. M. 4 persons present. 

 In the absence of the President, Prof. Lintner was elected Chairman pro tern. 



It was resolved that the minutes of the meetings be published as 

 usual in Ent. Am. and that the Secretary furnish an abstract for publica- 

 tion in the proceedings of the A. A. S. S. 



Prof. Lintner spoke on the larva of Haltica alleni, Harris — now 

 known as //. bimarginata Say, which he found near Lake Pleasant skele- 

 tonizing Alder, in great numbers, exhibited specimens of the larva and 



This paper will appear iii lull in the American Naturalist. 



