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their large eyes as giving them an advantage over insects with 

 less efficient visual apparatus when they took to living in dark- 

 ness. He also exhibited Costa Rican specimens of Lepidop- 

 tera : Callitaera menander found only in dark woods, whose 

 eyes are not as large as those of Callidryas argante and Dapto- 

 neiira ilia ire. creatures of about the same total size, living in 

 bright sunlight; shade-loving Ithomiine butterflies, like Epis- 

 cada apuleia, whose eyes are not absolutely or relatively large ; 

 Sphinges and Thysania agrippina with the largest eyes of the 

 order, so far as the speaker's collection was concerned, yet 

 which are not as large as those of Gynacantha gracilis in spite 

 of the heavier body and greater wing-spread of the moths. 



^Ir. J. W. Green, of Easton, Pa., was elected an Associate. — 

 Henry Skinner, Secy., and E. T. Cresson, Jr., Secy, pro tern. 



OBITUARY. 



We learn from the Canadian Entomologist for October, 

 1 9 14, of the death of Dr. William Saunders at London, On- 

 tario, on September 13, 1914, in the seventy-ninth year of his 

 age. Beginning life as a retail druggist, he became also a 

 fruit-grower, a Professor of ^Materia Medica, a public analyst, 

 an organizer of the Entomological Society of Ontario, an edi- 

 tor of the Canadian Entomologist and Director of the Ex- 

 perimental Farms of the Dominion of Canada. His "Insects 

 Injurious to Fruits" has been favorably known since its ap- 

 pearance in 1883. His bibliography comprises some hundreds 

 of additional titles. The account of his active and useful ca- 

 reer by Dr. C. J. S. Bethune, which is accompanied by a por- 

 trait, furnishes a striking example of the attainment of honor- 

 able success by one whose advantages at the beginning of life 

 were very few, and is an incentive to all to make the best of 



our opportunities. 



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Errata. 

 Page 387, line 3 from bottom for "finely," read "densely." 

 Page 431. for line 7 substitute: the ants about 5-16 inch long; when 

 disturbed the beetles grasp 



