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He stated that all three were rare, particularly the last, the 

 specimen shown being the second he had captured during the 

 thirty-six years he has been collecting. 



Mr. Geo. M. Greene exhibited a specimen of Diconias lucasi 

 Bell. (Dip.) from the Rehn and Hebard material. This was 

 collected at Long Key, Monroe County, Florida, July 13, 

 1912, Aldrich's List giving Mexico as habitat. 



Mr. Daecke exhibited a roach from Harrisburg, Pennsyl- 

 vania, September 25, 191 3, with a species of fungus growing 

 from it. Also Rhagoletis cingnlata Loew (Dip.), which he 

 collected at Riverview', Pennsylvania, June 23, 191 4, on wild 

 cherry, a species very rare here but commoner in the northern 

 part of the State, New York and Canada. Mentioned a paper 

 by C. W. Johnson on Criorhina and Blera (Dipt.) and exhib- 

 ited B. badia Wlk., Castle Rock, June 3, 1914, and Ingle- 

 wood, Pennsylvania, June 27, 1912, and B. confusa Johns. 

 Digby, Nova Scotia, June 22, 1908 (J. Russell) and El Paso 

 County, Colorado, July 2, 1914 (H. B. Champlain). 



Mr. H. W. Wenzel exhibited his collection of Oncideres, 

 Saperda, etc. 



Dr. Castle said he had found two species of ground fungus, 

 one at Pine Beach, New Jersey, September 14, and the 

 other at Morton, Pennsylvania, September, 20, which he had 

 placed in separate boxes, and on September 25, one species 

 of beetle, Caenocara oculata Say, began emerging from both 

 by the thousands. 



Adjourned to the annex. 



Geo. M. Greene, Secretary. 



OBITUARY. 



The month of November, 1914, witnessed the death of two 

 distinguished naturalists, neither of whom was known primar- 

 ily as an entomologist, although both of them did important 

 work upon insects. Friedrich Leopold August Weismann died 

 November 6, Charles Sedgwick Minot on November 19. 



