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terms, and exhibited thirty-five exotic Neolamprima and a series (i4c?c?, 4?$) 

 of Liicanus elaphus. 



Mr. Schaeffer spoke of expeditions to West Point with Colonel Robinson 

 and of various new Long Islands records of which he will furnish details at a 

 later meeting. Mr. Leng exhibited some Coleoptera taken on Staten Island 

 by his son, which, as far as new to the local list, will be mentioned in short 

 notes. These included also Ochthebius foveicollis and Hydraena pennsyl- 

 vanica from Willow Brook, near Bull's Head, where the growth of Anacharis 

 in the water and the protruding willow roots on the banks made excellent col- 

 lecting for aquatic species, especially Parnidae, which occur in great numbers. 



Mr. Schaeffer mentioned, in connection with the West Indian List, the 

 occurrence in Trinidad of two new species of Eucnemidae. 



Mr. Barber spoke of his experiences at Lakehurst in September, where 

 the rains had caused an unusually verdant appearance and remarkably poor 

 collecting. 



Mr. Knight, commenting on Malachlus crneiis, said it was very common at 

 Batavia, N. Y. 



Meeting of October 19, 1915. 



A regular meeting of the New York Entomological Society was held Octo- 

 ber 19, 1915, at 8: 15 P. M., in the American Museum of Natural History, 

 Vice-President Harry G. Barber in the chair, with fourteen members present. 



On motion the following were elected to active membership in the Society, 

 viz.: W. D. Funkhouser, 415 N. Tioga St., Ithaca, N. Y. ; M. D. Leonard, 

 Department of Entomology, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. ; Lawrence H. 

 Dunn, Board of Health Laboratory, Ancon, Canal Zone. 



On motion, Dr. F. E. Lutz was elected a delegate to the Second Pan- 

 American Scientific Congress, with C. W, Leng as alternate. 



Mr. Nicolay exhibited a collection of " Local Cicindelidas " in reference 

 to which he said in part that since 1910 he had collected personally or obtained 

 by exchange twenty-five species and varieties. A series of C. patnicla from 

 Pocono, Pa., where this species is plentiful early in September at a place 

 locally called the Knob, was illustrated by photographs of the locality ; as was 

 a series of C. limbalis from the wagon road approaching the summit of Storm 

 King Mountain, near West Point, N. Y. Brownish forms of C. purpurea from 

 Pocono and a green specimen collected by Mr. Pearsall in the Catskills Moun- 

 tains were subjects of comment. In reference to C. harrisi, Mr. Nicolay said 

 that no typical C. sex-guttata were found with it, and while it might be an alti- 

 tudinous form of that species, it could scarcely be a senile form, since its 

 peculiar color was developed only in the mountains. In regard to local races, 

 Mr. Nicolay pointed out that nigrita was not apparently approached in the 

 Chesapeake Bay race of hirticollis, as it was at Rockaway Beach, and Mr. 

 Davis added that it was only on Long Island that immaculate forms of iiiodesta 

 were locally found. Aqueduct being the great center. At Lakehurst, though 

 the species were found in numbers, such variations were so far unknown. 

 Messrs. Shoemaker and Angell joined in the discussion. 



