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^Meeting in Turn Hall, December ii, 1910; ten members 

 and one visitor, Mr. Matausch, present. 



Mr. Brehme exhibited a box of Hemileiica, showing in small 

 series all but three of the North American species. 



Mr. Matausch spoke concerning the Membracidae and 

 showed many enlarged water color sketches of both nymphs 

 and adults. He outlined his experience in breeding Ceresa 

 taurina and Campylenchia curvata. Moulting always takes 

 place, so far as his observations went, in the early morning 

 hours and the full coloration of the individuals in attained in 

 about two hours after moulting. The fact that he has re- 

 peatedly found skins of young nymphs on the same twig as 

 the fully grown individual indicates that the entire nymphal 

 life is passed on one stem. 



Ants frequently attend membracids and particularly the 

 young nymphs. He has observed three species attending Van- 

 diizia aratata and stated that some species of membracids are 

 preferred to others. A few species apparently have no ant at- 

 tendants at all. Among the species that were bred from nymphs 

 by Mr. Matausch were Ceresa pahncri which occurs on sweet 

 gum, Carynota niera which feeds on black oak and a species of 

 Cyrtolobus which developed on oak. 



The officers elected for the ensuing year were as follows: 

 President, Otto Buchholz; Vice-President, F. Lemmer; Sec- 

 retary, H. H. Brehme; Financial Secretary, T. D. Mayfield; 

 Treasurer, Geo. J. Keller; Librarian, Wm. H. Broadwell. 



John A. Grossbeck, Secretary. 



Meeting at the Newark Turn Hall, Sunday, January 8, 191 1. 

 seventeen members present, President Buchholz in the chair. 



Mr. Grossbeck was appointed a Committee of one to repre- 

 sent the Newark Society in arranging for a supper and meeting 

 of Entomologists with the New York and Brooklyn Societies. 

 Mr. Kearfott's invitation to have the Society meet and look 

 over his collection of Micro-lepidoptera on February 12th was 

 accepted. 



Mr. Buchholz exhibited a very interesting series of Pseudo- 



