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Meeting of January 22, 1920. Six members and contributors and one 
visitor present. Vice-director, R. C. Williams presiding. Mr. A. B. 
Hiedemann was elected a contributor. 
Lepidoptera. Mr. Williams exhibited a box of butterflies, being some 
curious aberrations of Catopsilia agarithe, Zerene caesonia, Argynnis 
halcyone, Melitaea nubigena, quino, and fulvia, Plebeius saepiolus, Cyaniris 
argiolus echo, Everes comyntas, Heodes helloides, and hypophlaeas. He 
also spoke about collecting in Connecticut, especially of the irregular 
appearance of some species, stating that he considered it impossible to 
plot the distribution of species by collecting in a single season. 
Diptera. Mr. Cresson made some remarks on a new ‘Trypetid in- 
jurious to the English walnut in Arizona. 
Orthoptera. Mr. Rehn exhibited and made some interesting remarks 
on some Orthoptera of the southwestern portions of the United States. 
He took some exceptions to Mr. Williams’ remarks on collecting, stating 
that by expert and constant collecting in one season, a good representa- 
tive collection of the orthopterous species can be secured. 
E. T. Cresson, JR., Recorder. 
Obituary 
An obituary notice of WILBUR Ross MCCONNELL, Assistant 
Professor of Zoology and Entomology at the Pennsylvania 
State College from 1907 to 1912, and subsequently connected 
with the Federal Bureau of Entomology, appears in the 
Journal of Economic Entomology for August, 1920. He was 
born at Whitesburg, Pennsylvania, in 1881, and died at Car- 
lisle in the same state, June 23, 1920, and had paid much at- 
tention to the parasites of the Hesstan fly. 
The Bulletin of the Entomological Society of France (1920, 
No. 10) announces the death of J. R. SAHLBERG at Helsing- 
fors, Finland, on May 8, 1920, aged 80 years. He published 
on the Coleoptera and Hemiptera of Finland and on ento- 
mological collections, especially of Coleoptera, which he had 
made in conjunction with his son, U. Sallas, along the eastern 
and southern Mediterranean. His father and grandfather 
also were well-known entomologists. Since this note was 
written, an obituary notice has appeared in Science for Sept. 
3, 1920, giving his age as 75. 
An obituary notice of JoSEPH PANTEL, whose death was 
mentioned in the News for July last, page 210, is accessible 
in Science for Sept. 17, 1920. 
