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Brehme was read, containing a report of collections made in 

 different States. In the discussion the members reported the 

 season in New Jersey as good for Lepidoptera excepting Catocala, 

 the species of which were very rare. 



An annex after the meeting was devoted to music and refresh- 

 ments. 



The Entomological Section 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



PROCEEDINGS OF MEETINGS. 



September 24, 1896. 



A regular stated meeting of the Entomological Section of the 

 Academy of Natural Sciences was held in the Hall, S. W. cor. 

 Nineteenth and Race Streets, this evening, Mr. E. T. Cfesson 

 in the chair. Members present: Fox, Calvert, Johnson, Skinner, 

 Ridings, G. B. Cresson, Wenzel, Liebeck, Dr. Griffith. Asso- 

 ciates: Reinick, Castle, Boerner, Kemp, Westcott. Visitors: 

 H. Hornig and T. H. Schmitz. A fine case showing the life- 

 history of the Tussock moth, Orgyia Icucostigma, was presented 

 to the cabinet by Mr. Hornig. 



Dr. Calvert gave a brief account of the entomological results 

 of his visit to Europe during the past fourteen months, stating 

 that the chief object of his journey had been to spend a year in 

 study at German universities and incidentally to see as much of 

 Europe as time would allow, including, of course, the entomo- 

 logical collections. The speaker had consequently spent the 

 Winter semester 1895-96 at Berlin, and the Summer semester 

 1896 at Jena. Previous to reaching Berlin he had visited the 

 British Museum, Oxford, Cambridge, the private collections of 

 Mr. McLachlan in London, Baron de Selys-Longchamps at 

 Liege, Belgium, and M. Ren6 Martin al Le Blanc, France, the 

 Musses Zoologiques at Brussels and at Paris. In the holidays 

 between the two semesters he had visited the Museums at Prague, 

 Vienna, Trieste, Bologna, Florence (together with the rooms of 

 the Italian Entomological Society), Naples, Genoa, Turin, Milan, 

 Munich and Halle. After leaving Jena, on his return to America, 

 in addition to revisiting some of the above-mentioned, he had 

 also seen the entomological collection at Leyden. The speaker 



