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with spines or thorns that collecting was a matter of some 

 difficulty. Insects of all orders were taken, but principally 

 Coleoptera, of which some eighty species were not included 

 in the North American check lists and nearly sixty species 

 were new to science. Many of the insects taken belonged to 

 the sub-tropical fauna which had invaded this region. Mr. 

 Schaeffer exhibited drawings of many of the new species of 

 Coleoptera, principally distributed among the Cleridae, Mala- 

 chidse, Ptinidee and Cerambycidse, the former predominating. 



Discussion by Messrs. Call, Smith, Schaeffer and Weeks as 

 to what should govern the limits of a faunal region, with the 

 conclusion that it was best determined by the character of the 

 vegetation . 



Febrtiary 4, igo^.. — Fifteen persons preseut. the Vice-Presi- 

 dent in the chair. Dr. Kenneth F. Junor, of Brooklyn, was 

 elected a member. Mr. Engelhardt reported that he had 

 found the bird's nests forming a portion of the collections of the 

 Children's Museum infested with the larvae of the clothes 

 moth {Tmea pellionella) . The materials in the nests were 

 straw, sticks, cotton, leaves and feathers. 



Dr. Call had found the same larvae as well as those of the 

 common Dermestes in the interior of dried crabs which had origi- 

 nally been preserved in alcohol and the same moth had riddled 

 the wooden table covers under cases which had been standing 

 for some little time. 



Mr. Doll exhibited specimens of Lepidoptera taken by him 

 at Brownsville, Texas, during the past summer, and described 

 the relative rarity and previously recorded range of occurrence 

 of each species. Many of the species were not only new to 

 our fauna, but to science. Among them Copidryas cosyra, 

 which until very recently had been limited to Mexico ; species 

 allied to Ecpantheria, Dasylophia, Edema and Schistcra, new to 

 our fauna ; Ecpantheria muzina, a large number of imagos 

 were obtained from a batch of 250 eggs, showing variations 

 which had heretofore been described under independent names ; 

 Melitcea perlula, new to our fauna and heretofore recorded from 

 Venezuela ; Anartia fatima, new to our fauna and not in Dr. 

 Holland's Book, previously recorded habitat, Cuba ; Krico- 



