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rnelamirus F. x Synaptus filiformis L. ; Strophosomus coryli F. x 

 Chrysom-ela (Orina) cacaline Schr. ; Hypcra poligoni L. x Coccinclla 

 bipunctata L. ; Telcphorus rnelamirus F. x Athous nigcr L. ; Donacia 

 simplex F. x Opoderus coryli L. ; Coccinclla x Chrysomcla; Ocncria 

 dispar L. x Pieris brassicae L.; Hibernia marginaria Bkh. x Orrhodia 

 vaccina L. 



II. The mating of two males with one another: Mclolonfha vul- 

 garis X M. vulgaris; Melolontha vulgaris x 3/. hippocastani, Tcle- 

 phorus melanurus x Lampyris noctiluca. Sadeau differentiates the two 

 cases as follows : pederastie par necessite and pedcrastie par gout. 



III. The mating of several males with one female : Dyctyoptera 

 sanguinca 5 males x one female ; Tortrix viridana male and at the 

 same time Tortrix hepara male x Tortrix viridana female; Cerocoma 

 sp. 4 males x i female. 



In conclusion Jakobson brings out the following two points : 



I. It is taking a risk to describe a new species from two specimens 

 taken in copulation as male and female of one species. They may be 

 two males of different species. 



II. You cannot unite male and female of a pair taken in copulation 

 as belonging to one species as the male may be one and the female an- 

 othef species. 



Adjourned to the annex. 



Meeting of February 21, 1917. at the home of Wm. S. Huntington, 

 igio North 21st Street, Philadelphia: twelve members and four visi- 

 tors present. President H. A. Wenzel in the chair. 



Lepidoptera. Mr. Daecke exhibited Pamphila hiirnn Edw. which 

 he collected at Rockville, Pennsylvania, September 30. 1916. Said that 

 while at Progress. Pennsylvania, on June 9, 1916, he had noticed some 

 dried currants which were infested. He took these home and on 

 June 30 Eiilia trifcrana Wlk. emerged. He cannot find record that 

 they attack currants, but they are known to feed on various things, 

 mainly huckleberries. 



Coleoptera. Mr. Geo. M. Greene exhibited a specimen of Gcotrnpes 

 (Cnemotrupes) ulkei Blanchard found dead in woods by Mr. Morgan 

 Hebard at Bald Knob, Bath County, Virginia, August 14, 1916. The 

 specimen is minus the head and of three specimens in the Horn Col- 

 lection, labelled "N. C. Merkel," two are in the same condition and 

 the third perfect. This species was described in Psyche V, pp. 106-110, 

 1888. Type locality Virginia in fungi. Called attention to an article 

 in Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. IV, p. 497, July, 1901, "The Ant-decapitating 

 Fly," by Theodore Pergande, in which is described Apocephalus per- 

 gandei Coquillett, a fly which decapitated Camponohis pennsylvanicus 

 De Geer and afterwards bred from the head. 



Adjourned to the annex. — Geo. M. Greene, Secretary. 



