20 Psyche [February 



Executive Committee, S. W. Denton, Wellesley; L. W. Swett, 



Lexington; P. G. Bolster, Boston. 

 Editor of Psyche, C. T. Brues, Boston. 

 Mr. S. W. Denton presided and thirty-two members and guests 

 were present. 



Prof. Robert Matheson, of Cornell University College of Agri- 

 culture, spoke on the three species of plant lice of apple trees, Aphis 

 pomi. Aphis sorbl and Aphis avence, their habits, and methods of 

 controlling them. 



Mr. S. W. Denton gave an interesting account of his experiences 

 in buying and selling butterflies in America and England. 



Mr. A. F. Burgess, secretary of the Association of Economic 

 Entomologists, spoke of the meetings of that society and of the 

 Entomological Society of America at St. Louis. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES FROM THE MUSEUM OF 

 COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 



Several families of Neuroptera have recently been rearranged in 

 new drawers. The largest of these, the Myrmeleonidse, occupies 

 54 drawers and includes 2,395 specimens representing 309 named 

 species, among which are 125 types. 



Several lots of small neuropteroid insects have been obtained 

 from Mr. Parish, collected on his Amazon trip. 



In mounting a collection of insects from Anticosti Island a speci- 

 men of Ornithomyia was found to which were attached two speci- 

 mens of Mallophaga, one on each side near the tip of the abdomen 

 of the fly. This is doubtless one method of distribution of the 

 parasites. 



Mr. Dawson of the LTniversity of Nebraska spent the Christmas 

 holidays at the museum studying Serica; Mr. Strickland of the 

 Canadian Entomological Branch at Ottawa spent several weeks 

 studying the collections of Acarina and Psocidse, and Mr. Leonard 

 of the Cornell University Agricultural College was at the museum 

 in January to study the types of Leptidse. 



