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shire. A very fortunate catch was a long series of Cybister 

 olivieri in Florida. The last two are represented in very few 

 collections. 



R. P. Dow, Recording Secretary. 



The Brooklyn Entomological Society met Nov. 5 with 

 twelve members present and John A. Grossbeck of the New- 

 ark Society, a visitor. 



'G. W. J. Angell, a charter member of the incorporated so- 

 ciety was re-elected, and C. P. Benedict of Staten Island elec- 

 ted to active membership. 



A. C. Weeks reported Hemileuca mala at Gaphank, Oct. 

 1 8 by daylight. Jacob Doll reported taking H. Neumoegeni 

 in Arizona freely at light at n P. M. C. J. Martin exhibited 

 his summer's catch of beetles in Germany and Switzerland 

 and a pair of Catocala fra.rini with quite melanotic primaries. 



Geo. Franck reported a freshly emerged Philosainia cynthia 

 Nov. 5. The species had been unusually double brooded this 

 year. Jacob Doll reported Junonia coenia hatching freely 

 out of doors in November. 



W. T. Davis reported that a larva of Hemileuca mala taken 

 at Lakehurst, N. J. in the spring of 1907, which pupated 

 promptly had emerged in the fall of 1908. Mr. Doll reported 

 a Samla gloveri which recently hatched after being four years 

 in the cocoon, and an Atlacus orizaba which had been in 

 cocoon six years and is still alive. A number of other instan- 

 ces were given tending to show that in the arid regions of the 

 southwest, insects had the power to stay in pupa form over 

 a dry year and emerge in favorable climatic environment. C. 

 Schaeffer reported taking the pupae of a Cerambycid Mon- 

 ilema ulkei in Arizona in the soil under the cactus, Opuntia 

 engelmannl. These larvae surround themselves with an earth- 

 en cell. The cell bakes hard under the summer sun, so hard 

 that it is seemingly impossible for the insect to emerge until 

 a copious rain softens it. 



C. H. Olsen showed a section of the stem of a decaying rub- 



