Dec. 1897.] 
Proceedings of the Society. 
20T 
Mr. Beutenmuller informed the Society of the sudden death of Mr. Martin L. 
Linell. 
“Martin Larson Linell was born at Gronby, Sweden, June 24, 1849, and died 
suddenly May 3, 1897, of heart failure. He matriculated at the University of Lund, 
Sweden, in 1870. His father intended to fit him for the ministry, but he left the Uni¬ 
versity at the end of his third year for the railway mail service. In 1879 he married 
and came to America, being employed first in a chemical laboratory in Brooklyn and 
afterwards becoming Curator of the Brooklyn Entomological Society. In i888‘ he 
was appointed an aid in the Department of Insects in the United States National 
Museum, which position he held at the [time of his death. He was an invaluable 
museum worker, and during his] nine years in Washington he worked over and ar¬ 
ranged a very large share of the collection, and had recently began describing all of 
the new coleoptera.” A bibliography of his published wiitings will be printed in the 
Entomological News. 
Meeting of June 21, 1897. 
Held at the American Museum of Natural History. 
President Palm in the chair. Ten members present. 
The advisability of holding a field meeting on July 4th was discussed and left 
in the hands of the field committee for action. 
Mr. Palm exhibited a number of moths from Arizona, amongst which was an un¬ 
identified cossid. 
Mr. Munch showed a specimen of Purpuricenus humeralis var axillaris which 
he had bred. 
Meeting of October 5, 1897. 
Held at the American Museum of Natural Plistory. 
Vice-President Dr. Love in the chair. Eleven members present. 
Mr. Beyer proposed for membership Mr. Charles Nushardt. 
Mr. Joutel reported on the donations of insects for the auction sale by Mrs. Slos- 
son, Messrs. Love, Seifert, Palm, Shoemaker, Ottolengui, Dyar, Cockerell, Doll, 
Miinch, Joutel and Beutenmuller. A vote of thanks was given to all for their gen¬ 
erous donations. 
Prof. Cockerell communicated a note on the three species of Xewglossa , found 
in New Mexico. He stated that these bees are commonly found in his locality and 
visit the flowers of Cucurbita , and that they are almost confined to this genus of 
flowers. X. strenua is described by him as X. cucurbitarum , but Mr. Fox stated 
that it agrees with Cresson’s Melissodes strenua. It is, however, a true Xenoglossa. 
Dr. Dyar spoke on the Pyromorphidm found in New York, The family is a 
small one, allied to the Zygaenidae of Europe and more remotely to the Eucleidae. 
There are three species in New \ ork, Harrisina ainericana , Acoloithus falsarius and 
Pvromotpha dimidiata. The larva of the first is familiar, yet it needs fuither re¬ 
search, as there are two forms which may be different species. One form, described 
by Harris, is yellow with black warts ; the other is banded with purple and has a 
white lateral line. The latter has not been bred recently. Harrisina is gregarious 
and feeds on the leaves of grape and woodbine. The larva supposed to be Acoloithus 
