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regular meeting of the Society shall be handed to the Correspond- 

 ing Secretary as soon after the meeting as possible and before the 

 twentieth of the month. 



Under the head of "Short Notes and Exhibition of Specimens," 

 the following were presented. 



NOTES ON A SOUTHERN TRIP. 



BY W. DWIGHT PIERCE. 



While on a recent trip through several states of the south a few 

 miscellaneous observations of more or less interest were made. 



In company with Mr. J. D. Smith I made a very long automo- 

 bile trip through southwestern Georgia and was especially struck 

 by the abundance of insect-catching plants. A short distance 

 north of Coolidge we stopped at a swamp and made a few notes 

 on these plants and their fauna. Five forms of Sarracenia were 

 observed, the most abundant being 8. psittacina Michx., S. 

 catesbaei Ell., and S. minor Walt., the tallest and most conspicuous 

 of which is S. catesbaei. As we approached the water at almost 

 every stop we were likely &o tread upon one or more of the little 

 red pads of the Drosera rotundifolia L. The tall spikes of the 

 pretty pink flowers of the Drosera filiformis Raf. were also abun- 

 dant. Here on a very small area were five and possibly seven 

 species of plants specialized as insect-catchers. The species of 

 Sarracenia catch their prey in the pitcher-like leaves which are 

 lined with downward pointing hairs. The Drosera rotundifolia 

 has a little flat pad with viscid knobbed hairs which close in on 

 an entrapped insect. It is hard to conceive that Drosera fili- 

 formis belongs to the same genus as it has tall slender tentacles 

 with viscid knobbed hairs which become covered from base to 

 tip with insects. There was not time to make a thorough col- 

 lection of insects from these various plants but a few notes were 

 made. 



Practically every pitcher of Sarracenia catesbaei contained 

 Lachnosterna , and we found several chrysomelids, coccinellids, 

 two species of lam py rids, several Oncometopia and many flies as 

 prey. Usually the insect prey were very much decomposed and 

 offered plentiful food for large sarcophagid larvae found very 

 commonly feeding on them. This plant was quite commonly 

 skeletonized from the inside by larvae of a lepidopteron which 

 seems to eat everything it finds in the pitcher and pupates in the 

 midst of its damp excrement in a cell made for the purpose. 



In the pitchers of Sarracenia minor we found legs of Orthop- 

 tera and a few other fragmentarv insects. There were numerous 



