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species, dricoptopiis .st/lrentn's which is injurious to ve<?etation, 

 the larva; uiiiiiiis;' the leaves ofthe water lily, Vietor/a ref/ioi 



Mr Jolinson referred to a former commniunication on spirally 

 girdled hickory twig's, and stated he had since reared two speci- 

 mens of Heterachthes qnadriiiiaviilfUns therefrom. 



Mr. II. Weuzel exhibited his collection ofScydnueuida,' and Psel 

 aphidae containing- about 150 species and 90() specimens. Over 80 

 species were from the vicinity of Philadelphia, 79 of which occur 

 ill New Jersey, although he believed all will eventually be found in 

 both Pennsylvania and New Jersey. 



Prof Smith called attention to a collection of the mouth parts of 

 Carabidae on which Dr. Horn's classification of that family was. 

 based. He had undertaken the mounting of these specimens on 

 microscopic slides, the specimens being orig-inally pasted on card 

 board. In every instance the specimen was simply named g-ener- 

 ically. The slides will be arranged in boxes, the latter numbered 

 to correspond to the plates of Dr. Horn's V)aper, and each slide is 

 numbered the same as the con-esponding tignre on the plates. \Iq 

 stated that the tigui-es are not exact, the autljor bringing out only 

 certain salient features of the mouth parts and in the speaker's opin- 

 ion thereby overlooking other important cliaracters. 



A vote of thanks was extended Prof. J. B . Smith for the elegant 

 collation given the members at the last meeting. 



Dr. Skinner related the experiences of his recent trip to the Wa- 

 satch Mountains, Utah, in company with Messrs. Snyder and Laur- 

 ent. W11.LIAM J. Fox, Secretarv. 



