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[Scudder. 
General Meeting. February 15, 1882. 
The President, Mr. S. H. Scudder, in the chair. Forty-four 
persons present. 
Mr. Lucien Carr read an essay on the historic evidence show- 
ing that the Indians were mound-builders and hence may have 
built many or all of our prehistoric mounds. 
Section of Entomology, February 22, 1882. 
Mr. Samuel H. Scudder in the chair. Six persons present. 
Mr. Scudder showed specimens of Euptoieta Claudia from 
Kittery, Me., and Terias Lisa from Mt. Desert, Me., the northern- 
most localities yet recorded for either species, observing that 
southern animals were more apt to extend northward along the 
coast, or along river-bottoms, than in the interior. 
Mr„ Scudder also read the following pajier : 
NOTES ON SOME OF THE TERTIARY NEUROPTERA OF 
FLORISSANT, COLO., AND GREEN RIVER, WYOMING 
TERR. 
BY SAMUEL H. SCUDDER. 
The collections of fossil insects obtained from Florissant em- 
brace seven genera and twelve species of planipennian Neurop- 
tera. All of the species and four of the genera are new, and 
belong to five families. The Raphidiidae are the most numerous, 
embracing Raphidia with a single species and Inocellia with four. 
The species referred to Raphidia hardly belongs to it in a strict 
sense, since the costal vein is excessively short, there are no cos- 
tal veinlets, and the sectors do not originate obliquely from the 
radius, but more indirectly by transverse veins. All the species 
of Inocellia, which fall into two sections, differ from living types 
and also from the species found in the eocene amber of the 
