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M. J. Luczot, Chief Engineer of Bridges in the Government 

 service, has species named for him but was not a describer. 

 Achille Percheron was a member of a weahhy Norman family, 

 who had a fine hbrary and wrote freely for Guerin's Magazine. 

 Felipe Poey, Father of Cuban Entomology, was a Parisian by 

 education. So was Menetries, head of the St. Petersburg Mu- 

 seum. L, Reiche was a retired officer of public health at Paris, 

 later becoming a banker. Chas. Rey was a naval lieutenant, sta- 

 tioned at Toulon. Theodore Roger, who had one of the most 

 notable collections of the time, about 15,000 species of Coleoptera 

 and 10,000 of Lepidoptera, was the head of a banking and wine 

 house at Bordeaux. 



Auguste Salle was not a member until much later. His 

 widowed mother organized a syndicate of backers for an ento- 

 mological trip through Mexico. There were three in the party 

 and in three years they sent home over 30,000 insects, mostly 

 beetles. Capt. Solier lived in Marseilles and depended on the 

 Dejean collection for his early works. Baron Walkenaer, Presi- 

 dent of the Society for 1835, was the best authority in the world 

 at this time on spiders. 



There are other great French names in Coleoptera, but it is 

 evident that the greatest were those which had to do with the 

 formation of the Entomological Society of France and its early 

 days. 



PROCEEDINGS BROOKLYN ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



The regular meeting of the Brooklyn Entomological Society was held 

 at the Children's Museum, February 12, 1914, called to order by President 

 Davis. Six members present. The secretary being absent, the minutes of 

 previous meeting were not read. The treasurer reported Society funds 

 $459-59 and Bulletin account deficit $4-59. Mr. Torre-Bueno, on behalf of 

 the Editorial Board of the New York State List of Insects, reported on a 

 meeting held February 7, at which blanks to be used for insect records 

 were distributed. These blanks have been left with Mr. Schaefifer from 

 whom all members are asked to get a supply. 



Mr. Torre-Bueno recorded the following Hemiptera caught on Long 

 Island: from Forest Park, June 27, 1903, Alydus eurinus, A. pilosulus, 

 Archimerus calcarator, Mineus strigipes, Geocoris ater, Calocoris rapidus, 

 Poecilocapsus lineatus ; on November 7, 1903, Notonecta insulata, N. undu- 

 lata, Belostoma flumineum, Lethocerus americanus ; from Richmond Hill, 



