March, 1916.] PROCEEniNGS OF THE SoCIETY. 103 



Mr. Howard L. Clark, North Farm, Bristol, R. I., was proposed for active 

 membership by Mr. Bird. 



Mr. Bird presented a paper on " Xanthcecia buffaloensis Grt., its larval 

 history and occurrence within our fifty-mile faunal zone," which will be printed 

 in full in the Journal. He exhibited specimens, dilating upon the clypeal 

 tubercle and its possible use ; and referring to the occurrence of the species 

 within the city limits, said he had found the larvae in New Jersey on their now 

 known food plant, Saururns ccrnuits L., and they would probably be found 

 also on Staten Island. 



Mr. Bird also added Nonagria laeta to the local list and made known its 

 food plant, Sparganium, which has not hitherto been recorded. 



Mr. Leng exhibited a specimen of Otiorhynchus sulcafus in which one of 

 the deciduous cusps was present, while the other was lacking, so that its scar 

 on the mandible could be seen ; and compared the use of the cusps in breaking 

 through the pupal stage with the clypeal tubercle shown by Mr. Bird. 



Dr. Lutz, commenting on Mr. Bird's remarks, said that special horns, 

 spines, etc., could not always with safety be ascribed to special uses, since 

 such were often the marks of old, specializing stock. 



Mr. Dickerson exhibited pink and green specimens of Amphiscepa hivit- 

 tata Say, collected at West Norwood, N. J., August 28, by sweeping, both 

 sexes being represented, and referred to the fact that pink insects were usually 

 found in the fall. 



Mr. Davis mentioned Professor W. M. Wheeler's resume of facts con- 

 cerning pink insects. 



Mr. J. W. Angell spoke of the combats between males of Lucanus cervtis 

 in which the mandibles were vised as weapons and quoted Janson's experience 

 with them, in which the elytra were found greatly damaged. 



Mr. Dow exhibited a pine snake from Lahaway which had swallowed a 

 partridge egg, and a number of curious nests made by wasps from the same 

 locality, in which coat hooks, door hasps, etc., had been utilized by the insects. 



Mr. Viereck later, commenting upon them, said that Sceliphron solitarius 

 was the architect responsible for most of them. 



Mr. Weiss exhibited Eucactophagus grapliipterus Champ., a Calandrid 

 weevil found at Summit, N. J., in greenhouses where orchids with soft bulbs, 

 like Odontoglossum, were grown. A more complete account will be printed in 

 Miscellaneous Notes. 



Mr. Davis exhibited insects collected in Cuba by Mr. M. R. Harrington 

 while engaged in archaeological work. Many came from a cave near Baracoa 

 where the walls were in places covered with roaches ; and others included 

 Pyrophorus, Elaphidion, Stenodontes and other Coleoptera as well as Penta- 

 tomids and Cicadas. 



Mr. Davis also read " Additional Records of the Deer Bot-fly," which will 

 be printed in Miscellaneous Notes, and exhibited it and allied species of 

 Cuterehra. 



Mr. Leng exhibited the West Indian Lycidas of the American Museum and 



