86 BULLETIN BROOKLYN ENTOM. SOC,. VOL. VII. October 1884.] . 
to learn, that Dr. Morris has announced his intention of returning to his 
first love—Entomology, and we doubt not he will be hailed with sincere 
pleasure by the new generation of Entomologists who have hitherto known 
him so favorably by what he has already done. 
Sept. 3d. Officers elected. John G. Morris of Baltimore, Presid. ; 
Herbert Osborn of Ames, Ia., Vice-Presid.; John B. Smith of Brooklyn, 
Secretary. 
Dr. Horn called attention to the historical associations connected 
_ with the place'in which the club then met. On that very spot in the 
old museum of Natural History, Thomas Say, poor in pocket, though 
rich in brain, put up his bed under the skeleton of some large mammal, 
and this for months was his only home. There also be contracted the 
illness which resulted in his death. 
-A paper from D. S. Kellicott, ‘‘On the ovipositing apparatus of 
Nonagria subcarnea” was read by the Secretary. 
The last two abdominal segments of the Q are strangely modified. 
The last is laterally broad, chitinous except at base, terminating in two 
finger like processes; these are connected at the apices and curve down- 
ward. Two concave discs lead to the anal orifice; it is evidently along 
this channel that the eggs are passed by the ovipositor. On either side, 
and below the groove is a strong chitinous ridge with saw like teeth, 
pointed backward. The other modified ring consists of a heavy band 
with stout posterior processes for muscular attachment; below are two 
stout chisels pointing backward and overlapping the first basal teeth of 
the ‘‘saws” of the last ring. 
The eggs are laid near the edge of the leaf in a row, and the leaf is 
then bent over the eggs, carefully cemented down, and a perfect tube 
thus formed. The manner in which this is done has not been witnessed. 
The imago has a very peculiar and very prominent pointed clypeal 
projection, of use probably in enabling it to pierce the stems of the 
Typha in which it lives during the arval period and undergoes its 
transformation. 
Mr. Smith cited the presence of similar modifications in other 
groups of the Noctuide. 
Mr. John B. Smith exhibited six large photographic plates of Agro— 
tis and gave a review of the remarkable range of variation in structure. 
found inthe, genus.. Much greater than in many recognized genera. 
