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Journal New York Entomological Society. [^'°'- ^-^iv, 



Judith to Narragansett Pier, R. L, at Horseneck beach, Westport 

 Harbor, Mass., at Orgunquit, Maine, at Gardiner Island and along 

 the ocean side, Long Island, New York. — Edwin E. Calder. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE NEW YORK ENTOMO- 

 LOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Meeting of May i8, 1915. 



A regular meeting of the New York Entomological Society was held May 

 18, 191 5, at 8: 15 P. M., in the American Museum of Natural History, Presi- 

 dent Dr. Raymond C. Osburn in the chair, with sixteen members and three 

 visitors present. 



Mr. Barber spoke of " Hemiptera Collected in Northern Florida by 

 Messrs. Mutchler and Watson," pointing out that whereas the material used in 

 compiling his list of Florida Hemiptera had been collected by various Museum 

 expeditions and by Mrs. Slosson and Messrs. Davis, Van Duzee and others, 

 mainly on the east coast and in the southern part of the peninsula and had 

 proved rich in West Indian forms, the present lot of material had been col- 

 lected mainly in the northwestern port of the State, adjoining the mainland of 

 Alabama and Georgia, and had proved poor in West Indian forms, and prac- 

 tically identical with the fauna of the Gulf Strip. 



The extreme southern character of the fauna was shown not only by the 

 species collected but by the poor representation of Capsidas or Miridae. Among 

 the more notable captures were Chilianella productiUs, Largns davisi, and 

 Matapodius confraternus. 



The paper was discussed by Messrs. Olsen, Davis and Schaeffer, bringing 

 out the fact that the Miridae, while deficient in southwestern states and West 

 Indies, were comparatively plentiful through Mexico and Central America. 



Mr. Engelhardt exhibited specimens of the Sesiid moth, Memytrus palmi, 

 described from Florida from a specimen now in American Museum collection, 

 and known from another Floridian specimen in Mr. Palm's collection and 

 numerous examples from North Carolina and other localities northward to 

 Long Island, commenting upon its preference for white and red oak and, to a 

 less degree, scarlet oak, and its resemblance to yellow-jacket wasps. He said 

 that its habit of breeding in the larger branches made it usually difficult to 

 collect in numbers, but that it had been fortunate in finding a locality near 

 east New York, where the cutting down of the trees had compelled it to breed 

 in smaller and more accessible branches, so that upwards of fifty infested 

 pieces had been cut off. One of these was exhibited to show the work of the 

 larva, circling around the branch during its first season and entering the heart 

 wood the same fall or second year, and the pupa in its burrow in the very 

 center of the branch. 



Mr. Comstock spoke of his experiences with Mr. Watson in 1914 and with 



