Stone.] 430 ; [March 3, . 
Dr. LeConte in his Synopsis Meloidum, 1853, divides the spe-- 
cies into a group with very elongated maxillae, and a group with 
maxillae shorter than the body, but nevertheless filiform, as in 
the others. The fact that these maxillae imitate the proboscis of 
Lepidoptera is mentioned by Kirby, 1826, II, Letter xxxii, in his 
Introduction. There are now thirty-two species of Nemoenatha 
described; twenty-six from America; twenty-two from United States; 
and six from the old world: three from Europe, two from Africa, 
one from Asia. Now all American species possess more or less long 
filiform maxillae, while none from the old world do so, though the 
maxillae are elongated, and one species, JV. rostrata, is described long 
ago by Fabricius. I confess I am perfectly at loss to see how or why 
the twenty-six American species should have been developed in a 
short space of time out of the old world form, which is not repre- 
sented at all in America. ; 
When the mouth-parts of the Phryganidae are spoken of in general 
as short ones, it should not be forgotten that there exist genera with 
a developed proboscis much longer than the head, and certainly fit to 
enter flowers; the greatest development I know of among the 
group occurs in Plectrotarsus gravenhorstii. 
I believe the whole speculation given in Mr. H. Mueller’s paper 
can not be accepted. 
General Meeting. March 3, 1880. 
Prof. W. H. Niles in the chair. Nineteen persons present. 
The following paper was read :— 
THe Kames or Marne. By Geo. H. STone. 
[Abstract.] 
The kames of Maine are so closely related to the surface features 
of the State, that a brief description of those features necessarily 
precedes a description of the kames themselves. 
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GENERAL TOPOGRAPHY OF MAINE. 
The surface is disposed in two grand slopes. 
1. The Southern Slope. 
The area of this slope is about 24100 sq. miles; its average width — 
about 140 miles; the elevation above the sea of its northern border, 
