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Members present: Messrs. Bland, Boerner, Castle, Johnson, E. 

 Wenzel, Trescher, Seiss, Laurent, Hoyer, Fox, H. W. Wenzel 

 and Schmitz. Honorary members : Drs. Geo. H. Horn and 

 Henry Skinner. Visitor : Mr. Frank Hoyer. Meeting called 

 to order at 8.45 p.m. President Bland presiding. For the com- 

 mittee on 4th of July meeting Mr. Fox, in the absence of the 

 chairman, reported that circulars had been forwarded to the 

 different societies, and that the returns seemed favorable for a 

 large meeting. On motion the committee was continued. 



Mr. H. W. Wenzel read a communication received from Prof 

 Smith, dated Marysville, California, June 2d, after which he ex- 

 hibited an interesting species of Lampyrid, Lamprohiza reticu- 

 lata, taken in the mountains of western North Carolina. Both 

 sexes were shown, the females being wingless and of a whitish 

 color. Mr, Wenzel said he would make further remarks on 

 some of the species captured later on, as he had not looked 

 over the material carefully which he had taken on his recent 

 southern trip. 



Dr. Horn exhibited his collection of Oedemeridae, which has 

 cost him so much trouble in the past year, stating that the mimicry 

 of species caused considerable difficulty in determining their 

 genera. 



Mr. Laurent exhibited a representative collection of Lepidop- 

 tera collected by Dr. Castle and himself in Florida; also the 

 gopher and gopher insects which they had excavated. 



Mr. Frank Hoyer was unanimously elected a member of the 

 Social. 



No further business being presented the meeting adjourned to 

 the annex at 10.30 p.m. 



Theo. H. Schmitz, Secretary. 



American Entomological Society, 



PROCEEDLNGS OF MEETINGS. 



April 23, 1896. 



A regular meeting of the American Entomological Society was 



held this evening. President Dr. George H. Horn in the chair. 



The Publication Committee reported in favor of publishing the 



following papers in the "Transactions" of the Society: " On the 



