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Schwarz states that in life the larva was covered by a white waxy 

 secretion which is now dissolved by the alcohol. The secretion 

 of the host has likewise disappeared, both in the alcoholicand the 

 dry specimens, but Mr. Schwarz thinks that it was originally 

 present. The color of the larva is destroyed by the alcohol, but 

 it was an obscure whitish. All these characters agree with 

 Epipyrops anomala. 



As to the systematic position of this insect, I cannot agree with 

 any published opinion. That of Sir George Hampson, referring 

 it to the Limacodidas is the most reasonable, but is negatived, 

 among other characters, by the structure of vein S of the hind 

 wings and by the abdominal feet of the larva. It is a Tineoid 

 form, apparently not referable to the Tineidae proper. Mey- 

 rick's tables seem to place it in the Zeuzeridaa, Hampson's in the 

 Dalceridae ; but it will probably prove deserving of separate 

 family rank. 



[Dr. Howard has since called my attention to a note (Proc. Ent. 

 Soc. Lond. , p. xx, 1883) recording this genus from Central 

 America, but the larvaB were apparently not bred. The note is 

 by Mr. Champion and states that Iarva3 were not infrequently 

 found attached to and feeding on the white cottony secretion so 

 abundant about some of the smaller Fulgoridae. As many as 

 three larvae had been seen attached to one imago. The Fulgori 

 dae were very sluggish in their habits.] 



Mr. Benton called attention to a particular in which, he had 

 observed, the Cyprian variety of bees differ in their habits from 

 native and Italian varieties. Instead of driving out and killing 

 all drones at the end of the honey harvest, they kill about four- 

 fifths of them and permit the others to go back into the hive, 

 only gradually destroying these, and, in some instances, permit 

 ting a few to live over the entire w r inter, even in colonies nor 

 mally supplied with queens. 



Dr. Dyar then presented the following paper : 



NOTES ON MOSQUITOES ON LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK. 

 By HARRISON G. DYAR. 



Tnese observations were made at Bellport and Amagansett. 

 The village of Bellport is on the south shore of Long Island, about 

 the middle of the length of the island on Great South Bay. The 

 land is flat and sandy, cut by sluggish streams forming lakes and 

 pools. The bay is strongly brackish but without salt marshes in 

 this vicinity. Mosquitoes were abundant in the season of 1901. 



