194 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, 'lO 



Mr. Dow exhibited three specimens of Cicindela from Sul- 

 livan County, N. Y., which are greenish brown and which are 

 either a local race of ancoclsconensis or between that species 

 and rcpanda. No attempt will be made to give it varietal rank 

 until additional material is secured. They are not uncommon 

 but confined to one mountain side. From the same region but 

 500 feet lower a race of C. harrisii was found, many of which 

 were so bronze hued as to suggest a natural hybrid with 

 pur pur ca. 



Following the meeting a supper was served and a silver 

 loving cup presented to Christopher H. Roberts, who retired 

 as treasurer after thirty-one years of service. 



R. P. Dow, Recording Secretary. 



The Brooklyn Entomological Society met at 55 Stuyvesant 

 Avenue, February loth, with eighteen members and three vis- 

 itors present. 



A. E. Allen, a lepidopterist, was elected an active member. 



F. H. Wolly Dod, of Calgary, Canada, spoke of his collect- 

 ing experiences there covering a period of sixteen years. He 

 spoke particularly of Argynnis astartc, the fastest flyer of the 

 genus. The males frequent the mountains above the timber 

 line and probably above the limits of growth of violets. 



C. H. Roberts read a paper on Colymbetcs. The genus is 

 divided into three groups, divided by appearance of front and 

 middle tarsi : First, with three rows of hairs and no pallets, 

 paykulli, loiujnlns, scininiger, obscuratus (not seen by Leconte, 

 Sharp or Roberts) ; the second has two rows of pallets and one 

 row of hairs and includes strigatus, crotchii, c.varatus, and 

 one species from the Yellowstone not yet described; the third 

 group has four rows of pallets and no hairs ; it includes 

 sculptilis, rugipennis, dolobratus, greenlandicits, thomsoni and 

 three species still undcscribed. The tarsal claws present a 

 character by which alone every species can be accurately de- 

 termined. 



R. P. Dow, Recording Secretary. 



