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Mr. Woodruff this year in collecting Lycflenidae at Greenwood Lake, particu- 

 larly in reference to Incisalia henrici, which at the same date and locality 

 proved less abundant this year than in 1914, when on May 3 a few were found 

 and on May 10 about twenty were taken on the top of a knoll (about 1,200 

 feet elevation) two hours' walk from Glen Station. Anthocaris genutia was 

 very abundant both years and other Lycaenidae were found, irus, augustus, etc., 

 but the absence of henrici this year was remarkable. Mr. Comstock closed 

 with a discussion of food plants in which Messrs. Davis and Engelhardt joined. 



Mr. Engelhardt remarked on the abundance of Anthocaris genutia on 

 April 24 in Dutchess County, N. Y., near the Connecticut state line, where the 

 Arabis, on which it feeds, was also abundant. 



Mr. Wm. T. Davis stated that he had spent the 6th and 7th of May at 

 Lakehurst, N. J., and at night had found many moths on the flowers of the 

 beach plum. Primus maritima, among them were Graphiphora subterminata 

 Smith, Graphiphora culea Gro. and Jodia rufago Hiib. At sugar there were 

 five species of Phaeocyma and the bug Largus succinctus Linn. Five indi- 

 viduals of this last-mentioned species were present and a pair were in copula- 

 tion. This species also occurs at night on flowers. Adults have been found 

 at Lakehurst in A'pril, May and June; in July nymphs, and adults again in 

 late August and in September. It has also been found in copulation on 

 June 4. 



Mr. Davis remarked also that on account of their different dates of bloom- 

 ing, one might use skunk cabbage, willow bloom and beach plum in succession 

 for night collecting and thus prolong the season. 



Mr. Leng exhibited small branches of dogwood infested by the scolytid 

 beetle, Phlceotribus frontalis, showing the characteristic clusters of sawdust at 

 the entrances to the numerous burrows, and said they had been collected by 

 Mr. H. W. Wenzel on May 10 near Philadelphia. 



Mr. Dow exhibited a cocoon from Panama and several other insects, 

 living and dead. 



Dr. Osburn spoke briefly of his new home at No. 358 Mahegan Ave., New- 

 London, Conn., and said he hoped to have visits there from members of the 

 Society interested in the varied collecting of that locality, where fresh and 

 tide water shores, hills and plains would, he felt sure, prove remunerative. 



After refreshments the Society adjourned to the first Tuesday in October. 



Meeting of October 5, 1915. 



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

 5, 1915, at 8: IS P. M., in the American Museum of Natural History, Vice- 

 President H. G. Barber in the chair, and twenty members present, with three 

 visitors, including Mr. H. H. Knight, of Cornell University. 



Dr. Lutz exhibited two luminous larviform insects received from C. L. 

 Holmes, Waterbury, Conn., similar to others collected by himself at North 

 Mountain, Pa., and received from Tompkin's Cove, N. Y., and referred to an 

 illustrated article by Riley in Am. Ent., 1880, apparently referring to the same 



