i 9 o 6 ] PROCEEDIXGS OF THE CLUB 
PROCEEDIXGS OF THE CLE’B. 
The 255th regular meeting of the Cambridge Entomological Club was held 
in the rooms of the Appalachian Mountain Club on Tuesday evening. March 
20, 1906. with fifteen members present. In the absence of the President. Mr. 
Emerton occupied the chair. Mr. Frost was elected secretary pro tern. Read- 
ing of the minutes of the previous meeting postponed. 
The subject of "Winter Collecting" was opened by Mr. Emerton and 
several undetermined species of small insects exhibited. Mr. Sampson said he 
had tried his light during the warm weather of January and had seen one 
moth that was attracted by it. The remarks finally drifted into a discussion on 
the liberation or emergence of Lepidoptera during the winter months. The 
fresh and unrubbed condition of many captured specimens was used as an 
argument in fav^or of the latter theory. 
Mr. Kincaid exhibited a box of Coleoptera that he had collected during a 
six weeks' stay at the Hermudas and remarked on the scarcity of the insects of 
this order on those islands. He said that many of the specimens e.xhihited were 
rare and some new to the fauna of the Bermudas. 
Mr. C. Frost presented a paper on the alder weevil. Attchibus rliois Boh., 
anil its parasite, containing his investigations of their habits, and the method 
of constructing the nest or egg roll. 
The rest of the evening was given over to informal conversation and an 
e.xamination of the collection of spiders in alcohol and the models of dififcrent 
kinds of webs that had been placed on public exhibition in the rooms by Mr. 
Emerton. 
C. A. Frost, See. pro tern. 
The 256th regular meeting of the Cambridge Entomological Club was held 
in the rooms of the Applachian Mountain Club on Tuesday evening, April 17, 
1906; with thirteen members and one visitor present. President Field in the 
chair. Records of previous meetings read and approved. 
The President announced the death of the Treasurer of the Club, Mr. 
Roland Hayward, and appointed Messrs. Johnson, Xewcomb and Emerton to 
draw up an expression of regret to be entered on the records. The committee 
presented the following statement which was accepted by the Club : 
“It is with deep regret that we record the death of Roland Hayward, for 
twenty-seven years a member of the Club and of late its Treasurer, who 
