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Miss Butler exhibited an unidentified larva found in Michigan 
in considerable numbers among eggs of Tabannus flies on leaves of 
Typho. latifolia. 
June 13, 1922 Mr. Denton showed May-fiies found in great 
numbers near ponds and collected by handfuls beneath the hood 
of his automobile. 
Mr. C. A. Frost showed recently collected Coleoptera. 
Prof. Brues gave some notes on food plants of the Colorado 
potato-beetle, especially Solatium rostratum. 
Prof. W. M. Wheeler showed some wingless Hymenoptera 
of the genus Scleroderma from Texas which feed on soft larvae 
of any kind, raise a brood in a month’s time and can be kept in 
confinement. It has winged and wingless forms of both sexes 
and appears to be an attractive subject for genetic studies 
September 12, 1922 Mr. O. E. Plath gave an account of his 
observations on Bumblebees begun in 1921 and continued 
through the summer of 1922, during which time thirty-seven 
colonies were kept in boxes and watched through the season. 
In most of the nests Atherophagus beetles were found, some- 
times attached to the feet or antennae of bees. Chelifers were 
found in considerable numbers in one nest. The parasitic bees, 
Psithyrus, were found in several nests and new observations 
made on their habits and relations to their hosts. See vol. 29, 
Nos. 4-6. 
October 10, 1922 the list of members was read and corrected. 
The death was announced of Laurence R. Reynolds, Vice- 
president of the Club, and a well known student of the Coleoptera. 
He had been on a collecting trip to the West Indies and Vene- 
zuela from which he returned in poor health and died in Boston, 
October 9. Mr. C. W. Johnson gave an account of his summer 
collecting at Mt. Desert in June and again in September and at 
the Rangeley Lakes, Maine. Mr. Johnson also discussed a 
collection of insects made by Owen Bryant in Vermont near Mt. 
Mansfield. Mr. J. H. Emerton spoke of his collecting in July in 
