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(Lasiocampidae), 4; Microccelia diphtheroides Grote, 4. — Edwards, 

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 — God man, F. D. and Salvin, O. Lepidoptera Rhopalocera, vol. 

 ii, pi. xc, 15. — Grote, A. R. An attempt to classify the Holarctic 

 Lepidoptera by means of the specialization of the wings. Part i. The 

 day-butterflies, 6 ; The changes in the structure of the wings of butter- 

 flies, 36. — Ingenitzky, I. On the life-history of Psyche {Epichnop- 

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 a monograph of the Rhopalocerous genus Ornithoptera or bird-wing but- 

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 — Rothschild, W. On some new butterflies and moths, 51. — Sch a us, 

 W. New species of Geometridae from tropical America,* 6. — South , 

 R. Heliothis arniigera, 9.— Urech, F. Experimental results of the 

 constriction of soft pupae of Vanessa urticcz acoss the wings, 22. — 

 Warren. W. New genera and species of Thyrididae, Epiplemidae and 

 Geometridae, from South and Central America and the West Indies, in 

 the Tring Museum, 51. — W ebb, S. See General Subject. 



Hymenoptera. — An d r 6 , E. Synopsis of the Mutillidse of France, 

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Doings of Societies. 



The regular annual meeting of the American Entomological 

 Society was held December 23, 1897, the Vice-President, Dr. 

 P. P. Calvert, in the chair. The reports of the various officers 

 were read, received and filed. During the year volume xxiii of 

 the Transactions of the Society, containing 496 pages and 14 

 plates has been completed. Of volume xxiv there has been 

 printed 320 pages and 1 plate. The chairman announced the 

 death of the late President of the Society, Dr. George H. Horn, 

 on November 24, 1897. Dr. Skinner offered the following minute: 



The American Entomological Society hereby records its deep 



