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quently described this same form as ligata. Mr. Grote's name 

 must sink as a synonym in favor of Mr. Morrison's. " In 

 looking over the collection of Mr. Philip Laurent he found a 

 series of eight or more specimens of L. flabilis of which up to 

 that time he had known the types only. The specimens were 

 taken at Anglesea at sugar, and one of them was so like a 

 typical ligata, that had the example come from Texas, there 

 would have been no hesitation in giving it that name. The 

 series does prove positively that flabilis is the same as ri?nosa, 

 some of the examples agreeing perfectly with a specimen re- 

 ceived from Dr. Thaxter and taken in Maine. It is more than 

 likely that these three names will eventually have to be re- 

 garded as belonging to one species. Another interesting spe- 

 cies seen in Mr. Laurent's collection is extincta, also taken at 

 Anglesea, and which up to that time he had seen from the 

 Newark district only. 



Mr. Haimbach described a card index for recording dupli- 

 cates. 



Wm. R. Reinick, 



Secretary Pro tern. 



A meeting of the Entomological Section of the Academy of 

 Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, was held March 26th, Mr. 

 C. Few Seiss presiding. Fourteen persons were present. Dr. 

 Calvert exhibited the apparatus with which he labels speci- 

 mens with generic and specific names. Metallic type is used 

 and set up in a small holder made for rubber stamps. A 

 printed form is used, on which is the name of the determiner ; 

 the name of the insect is added as above indicated. This 

 scheme was devised for the Biologia Centrali-America collec- 

 tion of Odonata, as it will be divStributed into various museums, 

 so that it becomes necessary to accurately label each specimen. 

 Mr. Hornig mentioned that Mr. Ilg had tried to keep cynthia 

 and lu7ia eggs alive through the winter by the use of cold, 

 but they all died. Mr. Hornig asked' if it would be possible 

 to keep over winter eggs of species that normally live during 

 that period in the chrysalis. 



Henry Skinner, Recorder, 



