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Diptera. — Mr. Hornig gave more details of his mosquito crusade. 

 Mr. Laurent exhibited a large series of Tabanus fuscopunctatus Macq. 

 which he said were very common and annoying the early part of this 

 month at Gunntown, Levy County, Florida. 



General. — Mr. Laurent said collecting was not so good this year 

 in Levy County, Florida, but he had succeeded in getting a couple 

 hundred each of Coleoptera and Lepidoptera. He exhibited also a 

 picture of Ottomar Reinecke, who died November 26th, 191 7. 



Meeting of May 15th, 1918. at the same place. Ten members and 

 one visitor present. President H. W. Wenzel in the chair. 



Coleoptera. Dr. Castle exhibited a peculiar small Staphylinid of 

 the genus Micropcplus which he had colllected on his last trip to 

 Miami, Florida, May 5. 



Diptera. Mr. Hornig stated that he had found a tree with a 

 depression where the three main branches started from the trunk, 

 which contained damp leaves but no water. These leaves were taken 

 home and examined with a microscope but he could find no eggs ; 

 they were placed in a jar and covered with water and it now contains 

 about twenty mosquito larvae. Recorded the first local appearance 

 of the following: Aedes canadensis Theob., March 26th to April 30th, 

 A. sylvestris Theob., April ist to .A.pril 30th and A. soUicitans Walk., 

 April i.sth to May oth. 



Geo. M. Greene, Sec'y. 



OBITUARY. 



William Hague Harrington, born at Sydney, Cape 

 Breton. Nova Scotia, April 19, 1852, died at Ottawa, Canada, 

 March 13, 191 8. From 1870 to 1916 he served in the Canadian 

 Post Office Department. He was one of tlie founders of the 

 Ottawa Field Naturalists' Club in 1879 and a member of the 

 Entomological Society of Ontario since 1877 ; in both associa- 

 tions he held various offices, including the presidencies. His 

 chief entomological work was on the Hymenoptera, but many 

 articles from his pen on Coleoptera and on insects in general, 

 especially those of economic importance, appeared in Canadian 

 journals. — (From the obituary notice, accompanied by por- 

 trait and bibliography, in the Canadian Entomologist for June, 

 1918.) 



