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PROCEEDINGS OF THE CLUB. 



10 Nov., 1893. The iSist meeting was 

 lield at 346 Marlborough St., Boston, Mr. 

 J. H. Emerton in the cliair. 



Mr. A. P. Morse .showed Professor Com- 

 stock's ''Evolution and Taxonomy" and 

 stated the conclusions of the author upon 

 tlie classification of the Lepidoptera. The 

 author remarked upon the probability of 

 the elytra of Coleoptera and Euplexoptera 

 being homologous with tlie tegiilae of H_y- 

 menoptei'a and the patagia of Lepidoptera, 

 calling attention to the papers bearing upon 

 the subject by Meinert and by Hoffbauer. 



Mr. F. C. Bovvditch remarked on the 

 unusual abundance of Calosoma ~villcoxi\ C 

 scrutator, C. frigidum and C. calidum in 

 Brookline during the past summer, the first 

 two species never having been previously 

 taken by him in this part of the state. 



Mr. Morse spoke of the rarity of males 

 of Pelecinus polycerator-, and remarks fol- 

 lowed with regai'd to tlie much greater 

 abundance of tliat sex in various other 

 insects, notably among various spiders and 

 in the Coleoptera among the Cerambycidae 

 and Stylopidae. 



Mr. R. Hayward stated that he was 

 engaged in the study of our species of Bem- 

 bidium and remarked on some of the diffi- 

 culties with which it was attended. He 

 hoped to be able to revise our species and 

 showed specimens of several groups. He 

 also remarked on the habits of several 

 species and gave a resume of the work 

 previously done on the genus and the vari- 

 ous ways in which it had been divided by 

 several of the older writers. 



The club then proceeded to an examina- 

 tion of portions of the Secretary's collection 

 of Coleoptera. 



12 January, 1S94. — The i82d regular and 

 17th annual meetmg since incorporation was 

 held at Mercer Circle. Mr. A. P. Morse was 

 chosen chairman. 



The reports of the secretary' and treasurer 

 were read. Messrs. Scudder and Hayward 

 were appointed auditors. The following 



officers were elected : President, T. E. Bean; 

 secretary, R. Hayward; treasurer, Samuel 

 Henshaw ; librarian, S. H. Scudder; members 

 at large of the executive committee, A. P. 

 Morse and S. H. Scudder. 



The secretary read the following resolu- 

 tions prepared by the executive committee 

 and they were passed. 



Resolved: That in the death of Prof. 

 Hermann August Hagen the Cambridge 

 Entomological Club recognizes the loss of 

 one whose reputation and whose many 

 years of service have contributed largely to 

 the honor and respect paid to entomology. 



Resolved: That we hold in precious 

 remembrance his worth and high scientific 

 attainments. 



Resolved : That a copy of these resolu- 

 tions be sent to Mrs. Hagen with the 

 respectful sympathies of the members of 

 the Club. 



The address of the retiring president, Mr. 

 W. H. Ashmead, on •' The habits of the 

 aculeate Hymenoptera" was read hy Mr. 

 Henshaw. 



Mr. A. P. Morse read a Check-list of the 

 New England Acrididae (printed in full in 

 the present number of Ps^'che). The list is 

 based chiefly on material personally collected, 

 Mr. Morse having taken in the field all but 

 one of the species mentioned — one of the 

 captures being unreported elsewhere from 

 the country east of the Mississippi river. 

 He proposed to use in the list, as a ready 

 means of indicating the species and forms, a 

 modification of the decimal system of num- 

 bering, believing it to be clear, concise, and 

 sufficiently elastic fo allow of necessary inter- 

 polations and additions. Details of the 

 method were given with reference to the list. 



The secretary read a paper by Mr. H. E. 

 Weed entitled "A preliminary list of the 

 butterflies of northeastern Mississippi," in 

 which the author divided the state into five 

 districts and records the occurrence of 53 

 species in the region treated of. 



Mr. A. P. Morse showed a collection of 

 Coleoptera made by him at Winchendon, 

 Mass., during the past summer. 



