EIGHTH ANNUAL MEETING. 27: 
SECOND -DAY’S PROCEEDINGS. 
WEDNESDAY, February 26th, 1879. 
THE PRESIDENT, Ropert B. Roosevett, called the meeting 
to order. Further discussion was held on other insects attack- 
ing fish, and Dr. A. S. Heath, chairman of the Farmers’ Club, 
read the following : 
Dytiseus Marginolis—Water Butts. An oval body, legs curved 
and widened into oars, provided with hairs. They imbibe air at 
the surface of the water like the porpoise. They are amphib- 
ious, and fly from pond to pond to satisfy their voracious appe- 
tites. They are of a dark greenish brown color, yellowish on 
the sides. The front legs of the male are provided with suckers. 
It pierces the fish between the head and thorax. The Dytisci 
and Cybisters are both insect sharks, and attack everything which 
lives in still water.—JZnsect World, by Louis Fignier, 1869. 
Dr. Heath illustrated his communication with sketches on 
the blackboard, and the form of a French insect was shown 
which resembled a water-beetle. 
Dr. Heatu: I was not aware that water-beetles lived upon 
fish, although they are generally carnivorous. Some insects have 
a long ovipositor, which is often mistaken for a sting, but is only 
used to deposit their eggs in such favorable places as the nature 
of the larva may require. 
Mr. GrorceE S. Pace presented the following paper on the 
Meredo : 
The name of our Association indicates that its transactions refer 
solely to the increase of food fishes, and heretofore the papers 
and discussions have been confined almost exclusively to that 
department of science; but I have assumed that information con- 
cerning the most destructive of marine animals, and practical 
