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vidua, sponsa and many others were consistently named, all 

 representing attributes of attendants in the Goddess's train. 

 Hesperia — from the God Hesperus, God of the Setting Sun, 

 hence the west, were beautifully named in America, e.g. , meta- 

 comet, trignois, pottawotamie , pocaho?itas and many other Indian 

 names. Prof. Smith pointed out that the adoption of these 

 names met with great opposition at the time from the prosaic 

 scientists of Europe. The Airhorses, plexippus, archippus, 

 disippus and others were cited as extremely appropriate. 



The indignity of naming beautiful Papilio after living ex- 

 plorers or entomologists met with condemnation. 



Geo. P. Engelhardt, Cor. Secretary. 



A meeting of the Brooklyn Entomological Society was held 

 May 2, 1907. President Dr. Zabriskie in the chair; seventeen 

 members and two visitors present. 



A latter from Mr. W. W. Hoover, a former member, dated 

 at Sudan Mission, Northern Nigeria, West Africa, was read. 

 Mr. Hoover described his journey, his present surroundings 

 and several insects which had come to his notice. 



Mr. Schaefer exhibited one specimen each of Leptura cir- 

 cumdata and Leptura proxima, found in copulation by Mr. 

 Shoemaker. 



Mr. Engelhardt showed a photograph taken recently in 

 Flatbush, Brooklyn, of a red oak tree, on which the galls 

 Amphibolips confluentus grew in remarkably large numbers. 



Mr. Joutel stated that he had reared a number of hybrids of 

 cynthia and promethea. The moths, though showing some 

 differences in maculation, adhere closely to the mother form — 

 cynthia. 



Dr. Zabriskie addressed the Society on ' ' Microscopical Ex- 

 aminations of External Structures of Hemipterous Insects of 

 the genera Oncopethis, Sinea, Acholla and P/iymata." The 

 address explained the continuation of the same line of research 

 as that presented on a former occasion, referring to the genera 

 Anasa, Lygaeus and Alydus. The address was illustrated by 

 fifty-three lantern slides. 



Geo. P. Engelhardt, Cor. Secretary. 



