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Quogue and Westhampton in September and by Mr. Wood at Port Jefferson, 

 on a gravelly bluff sloping down to the beach. 



He also showed the varied forms of C. rugifrons and C. modesta taken 

 in one day's collecting at Aqueduct and said while that locality was destroyed, 

 a smaller dune further along the shore was still good. 



Mr, Harris recalled the work of Mr. Johnson and Mr. Joutel at Aqueduct, 

 and spoke of his own recent trip to Oak Island, across the Great South Bay, 

 where Johnson lost his life, to obtain the dorsalis, hirticollis and repanda that 

 the latter had collected there. He spoke also of C. munifica, a large form of 

 dorsalis, with broad conspicuous bronze markings, which he had received from 

 Professor Calder, of Providence, who had collected it at Narrangansett Pier, 

 so far as known, the most northern locality for the species; and of the gradual 

 disappearance in dried specimens of rugifrons of the brassy color sometimes 

 noted in the field. 



Mr. Davis said the same change in color might be noted in C 6-gnttafa, 

 specimens in old collections being often of a more violet shade. 



Mr. Angell recorded finding C. 6-guttata on October 12. Mr. Dow ex- 

 hibited plaster cast from Lahaway of a spider burrow and another of Cicindela 

 modesta and spoke of the characteristic form of burrow made by each species. 



Mr. Rich spoke of the presentation at Ithaca by Mr. Leach of the U. S. 

 Bureau of Entomology of some of the economic matters mentioned by Mr. 

 Dickerson, particularly regarding peach tree borers. 



Meeting of November 16, 1915 



A regular meeting of the New York Entomological Society was held No- 

 vember 16, 191S, in Heim's Restaurant, at 8: 15 P. M., with Vice-President 

 H. G. Barber in the chair and eighteen members and five visitors, viz. : Mr. 

 Henry Brown, a member of the Soc. Ent. of France; Mr. H. L. Viereck, of 

 the Washington Biologists' Field Club ; Mr. Harry B. Weiss, of the New Jersey 

 Agl. Exp. Sta. ; Mr. Herbert Lang and Mr. James C. Chapin, of the American 

 Museum Congo Expedition, and Mr. Stephen G. Rich, present. 



The curator reported a donation from Mr. Dickerson to the local collec- 

 tion;. and resumption of the study of the Coleoptera thereof on Saturday, 

 November 20, at 2 P. M., the subject being the family Cleridae. 



The secretary read letters from several members, including Messrs. Green, 

 Bird, Love, Knapp, Groth, Wunder and Joutel, regretting their inability to 

 attend the supper which preceded the meeting. 



Mr. Laurence V. Coleman, 150 Maple St., Brooklyn, was elected to active 

 membership. 



Mr. Dow reported for the committee on Lahaway that Mr. J. W. Angell 

 and he had again visited the Plantation. 



Messrs. Davis and Leng spoke of their recent visit to Washington, of the 

 friends with whom they had visited while there, and of their scientific results, 

 which will be printed in the Journal. Mr. Davis also exhibited photographs 

 of persons and places and a printing press for locality labels obtained from 



