THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 95 



September 3rd, 18S4. The entomologists in attendance at the Montreal 

 meeting. 1882, authorized Mr. J. A. Lintner, should he think best to do 

 so, to call a meeting at Minneapolis, 1883, to consider the advisability 

 of reviving the Entomological Club. The meeting was held pursuant to 

 Mr. Lintner's call, and after discussion it was decided to continue the 

 meetings of the Club under the rules previously adopted. Officers were 

 elected, and several profitable sessions were held during the continuance 

 of the American Association meeting. In accordance with the rules the 

 Club is called to meet the day before the opening of the general meeting. 

 Entomologists who desire to read communications are requested to 

 notify one of the undersigned as early as August 15 th. 



O. S. Westcott, Secretary, D. S. Kellicott, President, 



May wood. 111. Buffalo, N. Y. 



PRIONUS BREVICORNIS, Fabr. 



BV FREDERICK CLARKSON, NEW YORK CITY. 



These beetles were very abundant at Oak Hill. Columbia Co., New 

 York, during the months of July and August, in the several years of 1875 

 to 1882. Harris states that the larvae feed on the trunks and roots of the 

 Balm of Gilead and Lombardy Poplar. Oak Hill is a part of the old 

 Manor of Livingston, and is notable for the variety and age of its oaks. 

 Upon the lawn immediately in front of the dwelling are two ancient trees 

 of the black oak variety, one of which is supposed to be two hundred 

 years old. From the roots of these old trees these beetles would emerge 

 during the first two weeks in July, usually appearing just after sun-down, 

 or in the darkness preceding a shower. During the sun-light, the closest 

 observation of the short cut lawn skirting the trees, would not reveal a 

 beetle, but so soon as the sun rested behind the towering Catskills, these 

 revellers of the twilight and the darkness would come forth. Their 

 presence is quickly realized by the odor of the $ , which is very powerful, 

 and can readily be detected twenty feet distant. I placed a $ immedi- 

 ately after emergence in an uncovered jar, and wherever I positioned it, on 

 the piazza or elsewhere, the ^ 's were attracted from every direction. I 

 captured twenty ^ 's in a very few minutes. Oak Hill cannot boast of a 

 Balm of Gilead or a Lombardy Poplar, but it is famous for its oaks, and 

 while it is admitted that the former trees, as mentioned by Harris, serve 

 as food for the larvje, my observations indisputably prove that they feed 

 also upon the roots of the oak. 



