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The Librarian, Mr. Schaefter, stated that he had the opportunity to exchange ten 

 volumes of the Journal for the "Biologia" parts containing the Longicornia. He 

 was authorized to make the exchange. The Librarian reported the receipt of the 

 following exchanges : 



Canadian Entomologist, Vol. XL, No. 3. 



Report of the Entomological Department N. J. Agric. College Exp. Sta. for 1907. 



Zoological Record, Insecta, Vol. XLIII, 1906. 



Society adjourned. 



Meeting of April 7, 1908. 



Held at the American Museum of Natural History, President C. W. Leng in 

 the chair, with sixteen members and three visitors present. 



The minutes of the preceding meeting were read and approved. 



The Librarian, Mr. Schaeffer, reported the receipt of the following exchanges : 



Verhandl d. k. k. Zool. Bot. Gessellschaft in Wien, Vol. LV1II, No. 1. 



Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc, Vol. XLVI, No. 187. 



Mittheilungen d. Schweizerischen Entom. Gesellschaft, Vol. XI, No. 7. 



Zeitschrift f. wissenschaftliche Insektenbiologie, Vol. IV, Nos. I and 2. 



Bull. North Carolina Dept. Agric, Vol. XXIX, No. 1. 



Ann. Museo Nacional de Montevideo, Vol. VI, No. 3, pt. 3. 



Mr. Davis proposed as an active member Mr. George W. J. Angell, 235 West 

 76th St., New York City. 



On motion of Mr. Bischoff, the by-laws were suspended and the Secretary was 

 authorized to cast a single ballot for the election of Mr. Angell. 



The Librarian requested permission to expend $10 for four book-cases to be used in 

 storing the back numbers of the Journal in his office at the Brooklyn Museum. The 

 request was granted. 



The first paper of the evening was by Mr. Schaeffer, who exhibited the Lam- 

 pyridse which he collected in the Huachuca Mts., Ariz. He remarked that the 

 Lampyrida; show much more than any other family the Sonoran character of the 

 Coleopterous fauna of this region, while the Lampyridse from Brownsville, Texas, 

 have very few representatives of the semi-tropical fauna, the latter being more abund- 

 antly represented among the phytophagous Coleoptera. Mr. Schaeffer called atten- 

 tion to the genera Euryopa, Discodon and Pectonottan, new to our fauna, about which 

 he made some remarks for publication in the June number of the Society's Journal, 

 together with the descriptions of the new species. Of the 32 species exhibited 12 

 were new. Only two or three are also found in Mexico, which again, as Mr. 

 Schaeffer said, shows strongly what he had stated at a previous meeting, namely, 

 that very few of the species described in the " Biologia" are found in southern Ari- 

 zona and southern or southwestern Texas. He also called attention to the close re- 

 semblance of a moth Tripocris to Lycus fernandezi, the moth mimicing the Lye us so 

 closely that when on the wing they could scarcely be distinguished. Another Lam- 

 pyrid, Lycostomus laripes, was very abundant on oak and with it occurred, but very 

 infrequently, a Cerambycid, Erytroleptus insignis, which, when alive, resembles the 

 Lycostomus so closely in action and color that it could be easily overlooked, 

 mens of the mimetic moth and Cerambycid beetle were also shown. 



Mr. R. P. Dow spoke informally upon "Nomenclature; a little of its Poetry." 



