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and work of larvre in Acacia fomesiana, O. texamis and work in Acacia flexicaulis 

 and O. quercus and work in black oak. He" also commented on the collection of 

 beetles taken in Mexico for the " Biologia" and recently presented to the American 

 Museum of Natural History. These, he believed, would be of little value for com- 

 paring with southern Texas or Arizona material as the latter was similar to that of 

 northern Mexico, where very little collecting for the Biologia had been done. In 

 connection with this he exhibited some Arizona and southern Texas Cerambycidse and 

 some of the Biologia material to show the difference between them. 



Dr. Wheeler exhibited a lantern slide of butterflies recently made in the Museum 

 by the Lumiere color process. 



Dr. Zabriskie said that Dr. Stebbins, of the New York Microscopical Society, 

 had been working along the same line and had obtained some very good results and 

 so far as the slides had been tested in the lantern the heat had not appeared to injure 

 the colors. 



Mr. Davis stated that recently some ants of the species Camponotus pennsylvanicus 

 had been found in his room and had come from an oak log placed there. Two of 

 these were placed in a bottle with a turtle, Kinosternon pennsylvanicum, and had 

 attacked it and had bitten so hard that the heads remained attached to the turtle's 

 neck after the bodies had been removed. The turtle with attached insects was ex- 

 hibited. This habit is made use of in South America where, Dr. Wheeler stated, a 

 certain species is allowed to bite and so bind together a cut or similar wound. The 

 bodies can then be cut oft" and the heads will remain attached until removed, thus 

 holding the wound together until it heals. 



Society adjourned. 



H. G. Barber, 



Secretary. 



