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Mr. Franck remarked that he took the first specimen of this 

 insect in Kansas City many years ago, and that he regarded it 

 as a hybrid between chersis and halmics. 



Prof. Smith stated that of the seventeen species of mosquitoes 

 indigenous to New Jersey he had bred all but two, and gave 

 portions of the life-history of those which he had studied. 

 The popular description of the ' ' egg-boats ' ' applied only to 

 one species. Other species oviposited in moist peat, etc., 

 where they awaited water for development. Marsh mosquitoes 

 rarely entered dwellings. 



General discussion on question as to the period of fertiliza- 

 tion, whether fall or spring, of certain hybernating species. It 

 appeared that where both S $ and 9 9 survive the winter, 

 this occurred in the spring, 



December ^, igo2. —Twenty-four persons present. Prof. 

 John B. Smith, president, in the chair. 



Prof. Smith, of the Glossary Committee, reported progress. 



Mr. Weeks read an article written by his father, the late 

 William J. Weeks, of Suffolk Co., L. I., and published in the 

 Scientific American of 1857, offering a solution of the method 

 whereby the honey-bee {Apis mellifica) was enabled to con- 

 struct its cells with more or less regularity, — viz., by the em- 

 ployment of its antennae as a standard of measure, the identity 

 in length and angle of these organs with the dimensions of the 

 cells having been established by the examination of numerous 

 workers. 



Discussion by Dr. Call and Messrs. Roberts, Joutel and 

 Weeks. 



Mr. Charles Dury of Cincinnati, made a brief statement of 

 the interest taken in entomological studies in his city, 



Prof. Smith exhibited some lantern slides showing a series 

 of notodontian larvae resting upon their respective food-plants, 

 and also slides illustrating the methods of breeding certain 

 Coccinellids imported from Australia and China and employed 

 in the destruction of scale insects infesting the orange, fig, etc., 

 and lastly slides illustrating scenes in California, obtained 

 during his last visit to that State. 



Archibald C. Weeks, Secretary. 



