Club then adjourned to INIonday 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 Mr. 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 absence of Prof. Comstock, Prof. Lintner was elect- 

 ed President />;'6» kvi. Mr Emerton read a paper by Prof. L. M. Under- 

 wood on the literature of the North American Spiders, reviewing the 

 work thus far done in the Arachnid(£.* 



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 unnamcable 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 and moths that have been taken there — among them 

 Terias me.xicana, Apaiura cellis, Argus labruscce, Dilophonota ello 2iX\A Ere- 

 bus zenobui. 



Adjourned until Tuesday, August i6th, at 9 A. M. 



On the afternoon of the loth the Entomologists and Botanists joined 

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

 and agreeable one. 



Tuesday, August i6th — Club met at 9 A. ]\I. 4 persons present. 

 In the absence of the President, Prof Lintner was elected Chairman/>ro 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 H. bimarginata Say, which he found near Lake Pleasant skele- 

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



This paper will appear in lull in the American Naturalist. 



