g10 General Notes. [ November, 
duties as general secretary, was induced to change his mind, upon 
this discouraging showing. The distinctive feature of the club 
was its meeting a day in advance of the Association, when e€Xx- 
cellent opportunity was offered for the interchange of views and 
the exhibition and exchange of specimens. After the business 
of the Association once begins, there is so much to interest and 
occupy members that it is more difficult for the specialists to get 
together. In this one respect the merging of the club into the 
Association—the loss of its independence, so to speak—is és 
drawback ; but we hope that it will not lessen the enthusiasm oF 
interest of the entomologists of the country, who still have in the 
Association an incentive to annual reunions that cannot but 
prove both pleasant and profitable. is 
mong those in attendance were the chairman, Jno. G. Morris, 
the secretary, B. Pickman Mann, and Messrs. J. A. Lintner, ne 
Saunders, Wm. H. Edwards, J. D. Putnam, Cyrus Thomas, V. i. 
Chambers, S. H. Peabody, H. S. Jewett, Charles Dury, A. W. 
Cook, C. G. Siewers, Jno. A. Warder, C. D, Zimmermann, E. W, 
-Claypole. | 
The following is a list of the papers entered and read: 
Life-history of the Buckeye stem-borer, Sericoris instrutana Clem. E. W. Clay- 
ole. 
Retarded Development in Insects. C. V. Riley. 
New Insects injurious to American Agriculture. C. V. Riley. 
The Egg-case of Hydrophilus triangularis. C. V. Riley. 
On certain habits of Heliconia charitonia. W.H. Edwards. 
On the Oviposition of Prodoxus decipiens. C. V. Riley. 
The Cocoon of Gyrinus. C. V. Riley. 
On the length of life of Butterflies. W. H. Edwards. 
On tke life duration of the Heterocera (moths). J. A. Lintner. Lae 
A remarkable invasion of Northern New York by a Pyralid insect, Crambus 
gtvagellus. J. A. Lintner : w. H. 
On an alleged abnormal peculiarity in the history of Argynnis myrina "'* 
Edwards. 
How does the Bee extend its Tongue. A. J. Cook. 
The Syrian Bees. Cook. 
Carbolic acid as a preventive of Insect Ravages. A. J. Cook. Pickman 
ego of codperation in furthering the study of entomology. Mates ne 
ann, 
The subsection was opened by the reading of Mr. 
paper ona singular habit of He/conia charitonia Lint, . 
observed by Dr. Wm. Wittfeld, near Indian river, Fla. 4" 
