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The President was directed by motion to appoint the fol- 
lowing committees: Committee on Resolutions; Committee 
on Nominations; Auditing Committee. 
The following papers were then read, but in compliance with 
the action of the Executive Committee only titles are given: 
C. P. GILLETTE, Colorado Agricultural College.—Food Habits of Some Colorado 
Aphids. 
CORNELIA F. KEpHART, Cornell University.—The Poison Glands of Automeris io 
Fabr. 
NATHAN Banks, U. S. Bureau of Entomology.—Geographical Distribution of 
Neuropteroid Insects, together with an Analysis of our Insect Fauna. 
PauL S. WeEtcH, Kansas Agricultural College.—The Biology of Nymphula 
maculalis Clemens. Read by title. 
V. E. SHELFORD, University of Illinois.—Modification of Tiger-beetle Colors 
by Temperature and Moisture. 
L. HASEMAN, University of Missouri.—Life-history, Development, and Work 
of Unspotted Tentiform Leaf-miner of Apple. Read by title. 
Epna MosHe_r, University of Illinois.—Pupal Characters Used in the Classifi- 
cation of the Sphingide. Presented by the Secretary. 
J. M. Avpricu, U. S. Bureau of Entomology.—Results of twenty-five Years 
Collecting of the Tachinide. 
MortIMER D. LEONARD, Cornell University.—Notes on Capsid Life-histories. 
W. D. Funxkuouser, Ithaca High School.—Notes on the Life-histories of cer- 
tain Membracide. 
’ The President announced the following committees: 
Committee on Resolutions.—F. M. Webster, Henry Bird, and J. S. Houser. 
Committee on Nominations.—J. Chester Bradley, C. P. Gillette, and J. A. 
Nelson. 
Auditing Committee-—Wm. T. Davis, J. H. Emerton, and Frank Morton 
Jones. 
The Society then adjourned to meet at 2:00 P. M. 
R. A. CooLey, Montana Agricultural College.—A Photographic Record of the 
Development of the Female Lepidosaphes ulmi Linn. 
C. H. TyLeER Townsenp, U. S. National Museum.—On Proper Generic 
Concepts. 
ANNA GRACE NEWELL, University of Illinois—The Homology of the Genitalia 
of Benacus griseus. 
On motion the Society adjourned for the remainder of the 
afternoon so that the members could attend the Symposium 
being held by the American Society of Naturalists on the sub- 
ject, ‘The Value of Zoology to Humanity.”’ 
The Society reconvened at 10:00 A. M., Friday, January 
1st., 1915 for the Annual Business Meeting and the presentation 
of the remaining papers of the program. 
The Committees appointed to present resolutions on the 
death of Mr. H. H. Lyman, Mr. J. A. Grossbeck, and Dr. 
William Saunders presented their reports. They were ordered 
accepted and printed. 
