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men of Leptura cmenta Hald. was taken by Mr. Charles Liebeck at Da Costa, At- 

 lantic County, New jersey. Mr. Joutel and himself, while collecting at Hewitt, New 

 Jersey, on the 19th of last June, were fortunate to find a specimen of this rare longi- 

 corn on the flowers of the low growing dog-wood Cornus canadidissima.. A few 

 days previously Mr. Joutel had collected a specimen at Hastings-on-the Hudson in 

 New York State. 



This species is not mentioned in either the Buffalo, Cincinnati or Washington 

 Lists of Coleoptera. Mr. Leng has given its distribution as follows : Pennsylvania, 

 < reorgia, Texas, Canada and western. 



Mr. Harris reported the localities he had visited in the search for Cicindelidre. 

 Among the places mentioned were southern Delaware, Popenoe Mts. in West Vir- 

 ginia, Burlington, Vt., Peekskill, N. Y. , and in all of these localities results were poor 

 in any but the more common species. He found better collecting in the Adirondack 

 Mts. early in August, where he took eight specimens of C. longilabris on top of Jay 

 Mts. From the 10th to the 21st of September he collected along the south shore of 

 Long Island, taking many large specimens of C. rugifrons, one C. consantanea , one 

 C. generosa, several C. repanda, sixty-three C. purpurea, and a number of fine speci- 

 mens of (.'. vulgaris. 



Discussion as to whether C. rugifrons occurs along beaten roads or in grass 

 patches, participated in by Messrs. Weeks, Joutel and Schaeffer. 



Mr. Bueno stated that he had collected several weeks at Westfield, N. J., and 

 found poor results from sweeping, but water-bug collecting was good. 



Mr. Jmitel exhibited a peculiar egg cocoon of a spider which resembled the re- 

 ceptacle and calyx of a flower after the petals had fallen off. 



Mr. Leng under " Remarks on Cychrus " stated that in his opinion many of the 

 so-called species were not specifically different, but really represented one species 

 occurring in different localities under different conditions. These were entitled to 

 race names rather than specific names. lie spoke of C. elevatus and C. viduus as 

 an instance in point. 



Mr. Weeks stated that contrary to report he had not observed that Colias phiio- 

 dice was being replaced in this vicinity by Pieris rapce. 



Meeting of October iS, 1904. 



Held at the American Museum of Natural History. Yice-President C. W. 



Leng presided with nine members and one visitor present. 



On motion of Mr. Groth, Mr. William W T ood was elected an active member of 

 the society. 



The question of holding but one meeting monthly was raised and the discussion 

 was participated in by nearly all of those present. The concensus of opinion being 

 opposed to the suggestion. 



( >n motion of Mr. Bueno the question was laid on the table until the first 

 meeting in October, 1905. 



Mr. Barber under the subject of " Preliminary List of Pentatomidte collected in 

 Brownsville, Texas, by Mr. C. Schaeffer" gave a few notes on the distribution of the 

 species collected from that locality and exhibited the collections of thirty-one species. 

 Of these five are new to the United States and one a new species. 



Mr. Schaeffer called attention to the synonymical notes on Exochomus margini- 



