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Mr. Kaeber said since the last meeting he had reared more 

 specimens of Dysphaga tenuipes Hald. (Col.), and that the 

 first two had brown elytra with dark spot and the next two 

 reddish black elytra and black thorax. 



Mr. Wenzel exhibited wood with larvae of Prionus ( ?) and 

 also burrows of a species of bee. Recorded two specimens of 

 Chrysobothris convexa Fall from Chisos Mts., Texas, July 

 19, one collected by J. W. Green and the other by H. A. Wen- 

 zel. The type locality for this beetle is Alamogordo, New 

 Mexico, 



Two newspaper articles were read, one on "A Seven-legged 

 Curacoa Bug" and one on Amhlychila cylindriformis Say. 



Mr. Geo. M. Greene remarked on his card catalog of North 

 American Coleoptera and pointed out some "oddities" in a 

 recent paper. 



Adjourned to the annex. 



Geo. M. Greene, Secretary. 



OBITUARY. 



Dr. Carl Chun, professor of zoology in the University 

 of Leipzig, died April ii, 1914. Although chiefly distin- 

 guished, in recent years, for his oceanographical work as sci- 

 entific leader of the German Deep Sea Expedition on the 

 steamship Valdivia, he published in 1875 an elaborate paper 

 on the structure, development and physiological significance 

 of the rectal glands in insects. He was sixty-two years old. 



Mr. Frank E. Moeser, a collector of Lepidoptera and a 

 keen observer of their life histories, died at his home, 239 

 Guilford Street, RufTalo, New York, on May 15th, being 

 forty-five years of age. His work, among the local Noctuidae 

 especially, proved of interest, in that material brought to notice 

 by Grote, when the latter was with the Buffalo Society of 

 Natural Sciences, was again collected by him. He is survived 

 by a wife, daughter and son. — H. B. 



Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Lyman perished in the terrible dis- 

 aster of May 29, 1914, when the Canadian Pacific steamship. 



