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Apeil 7, 187G. 

 The President m tlie chair. Twenty-six persons present. 



Professor Euge'N'e A. Smith, State Geologist of Alabama, and 

 Mr. John T. Humphreys, State Naturalist and Entomologist of 

 Georgia, were elected Corresponding Members. 



A paper, On Public Parks, was read by its antlior, Mr. Hugh 

 McMillan. After a discussion of the paper, the thanks of the 

 Society were voted to Mr. McMillan. 



The following communication was read : 



CORRECTIONS TO THE PAPER: A LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN 



SYRPHIDAE. 



BY CH. R. OSTEN SACKEN. 



Having been prevented, by absence, from revising the proofs of my list of 

 North American Syrphidae, a number of errors have occurred in it, which, 

 from their very nature, another proof reader but myself could not vrell 

 become aware of. They were also partly owing to some errors in the 

 manuscript. 



I give here a list of such of these errors only, which might be misleading, 

 omitting those which will be obvious to every dipterologist (as for instance, 

 on page 39, Petecocem, Pasagzis, Pipija, Eumeous, and on the next page, Vol- 

 udella, instead of Pelecocera, Paragus, Pipiza, Eumerus, Volucella). 



from bottom, strike out the period at the end. 

 " top, for 11, 57, read 1157. 

 " top, for anrnlentis, read aurulentiis. 

 " top, for c.aliopterus, read baliopterus. 



" top, for englossoides, read euglossoides. 

 " top, for p. 164, read 64. 

 " top, for capiliata, read capillala. 

 15 and 16 " top, should read thus : 

 naso Walker, List, etc., III. p. 587 (Syrphus). Hudson's Bay Terr. (Platy- 



chirus ? — Verrall in litt.) 

 Pacilus TFa?^■er, Dipt. Saund. p. 240 {'S^?7)A!;s). North America. (Platychirus. 

 — Verr.sll in litt.) 



