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they increase in number in a mass of cells in the middle of the 
embryo which becomes divided in two and in the newly hatched 
Aphid forms a pair of conspicuous organs. The paper was illus- 
trated by numerous drawings. 
Mr. Roland Hussey showed specimens of Scaptocoris 
castaneus from Venezuela belonging to a tropical group of the 
Hemipterous family Cyclnidse in which the hind tibia is swollen 
and truncate and the tarsus absent while the front tibia is 
prolonged by the fusion of the apical spines much be3 r ond the 
insertion of the tarsus and the latter is much reduced in size. 
Mr. F. W. Dodge showed 125 species of the coleopterous 
family Ateoidse, part of the collection of the late Air. Fuchs of 
California. 
At the meeting of December 13, Prof. C. T. Brues showed 
several rare wingless Hymenoptera of unknown habits, one a 
species of Pedinomma Westw. and another of the genus Algoa. 
J. H. Emerton exhibited his portable collection of two 
hundred species of native spiders illustrated by charts, drawings 
and photographs of cobwebs. 
Air. F. W. Dodge exhibited a collection of beetles of the 
family Coccinellid£e. 
The annual meeting was held January 10, 1922. The 
Secretary’s report shows than ten meetings were held during the 
past year with average attendance of nineteen persons. Four 
new members were elected and the present membership numbers 
sixty-nine. The following officers for 1922 were elected: Pres- 
ident, Wm. Al. Wheeler; Vice president, L. R. Reynolds; Sec- 
retary, J. H. Emerton; Treasurer, Fred FI. Walker; Editor, C. T. 
Brues; Executive committee, Nathan Banks, S. W. Denton, 
L. W. Swett. 
Air. Nathan Banks in retiring from the presidency addressed 
the Club on the value of field observation and the importance 
of careful records and prompt publication. He thought much 
valuable work was lost through failure to appreciate its impor- 
tance, and through timidity in failing to publish what had been 
discovered. Observers should not be tempted to wait too long 
for perfection, as completion of their investigations in such things 
