March, 1916.] PROCEEDINGS OF THE SoCIETY. 105 



uary notice for the Journal ; and the secretary was instructed to express by 

 letter to the widow the regret of the members. 



The chairman appointed Messrs. Dickerson, Dow and Sleight a committee 

 to prepare nominations for officers for the ensuing year. 



Mr. Nicolay exhibited his collection of " Local Gyrinidse " and other fami- 

 lies of aquatic beetles and described methods of capture and local environment. 

 He also showed sheets prepared for the N. Y. State List and enlarged photo- 

 graphs of the scenes amid which he had collected. 



Mr. Davis, adverting to his remarks on the sunbasking habit of Gyrinidse, 

 recalled his printed observations,! and especially his experience at Pine Island, 

 N. Y., with Mr. Woodruff when Dineutes discolor and Gyrinus dichrous were 

 seen in separate assemblages, though on the same submerged tree, basking in 

 the sun, and dropping off, one by one, when disturbed, like turtles. 



Mr. Schaeffer and Mr. Leng spoke of the taxonomic difficulties involved 

 in some of these groups, and the latter referred also to the work in progress 

 by Mr. H. H. Knight, of Ithaca, on the Parnids. 



Dr. Lutz, in the absence of Mr. Viereck, exhibited and spoke briefly of the 

 parasitic Hymenoptera of Porto Rico. 



Mr. Davis exhibited photographs received from Mr. Clarence Shoemaker 

 of Messrs. Nicolay and Shoemaker at work along the Potomac, and quoted 

 the nickname " Energy Shoemaker " as applied in Washington to the latter. 



Mr. Shoemaker exhibited and donated to the local collection specimens of 

 Semiophora gristra, taken at Lakehurst in October and identified as a rare 

 moth by Dr. Forbes ; also Catocala amatrix, captured as it flew alarmed from 

 the pine trees, and Xylina pexata. He remarked upon the benefit he had 

 already derived from the local collection in its incomplete condition and urged 

 upon all members the advantage of completing it as rapidly as possible. 



Mr. Weiss exhibited and donated to the local collection specimens of 

 Antonina crauii, the cottony bamboo scale, found at Riverton, N. J., in August, 

 an introduction from Japan; Rhopalosiphon ligustri Kalt., the privet plant 

 louse, found in Jersey City in July, probably European in origin and remark- 

 able as being one of the few enemies of privet ; Corthylus punctatissimus. long 

 known as attacking the rootstock of huckleberry, but lately developing into a 

 pest attacking the rhododendrons and azaleas ; the specimens shown were found 

 at Somerville, N. J., October 7, 19 15, and sections showing their work near 

 the ground were included; Pinipestris simmermanni Grt., the pine shoot moth, 

 from Eatontown, X. J., August 15; Monarthropalpus buxi Lab., the boxwood 

 leaf miner, probably introduced from Holland. 



Mr. Weiss exhibited also a Pierid, found alive in French nursery stock at 

 Rutherford, N. J., December i, which has been identified as Gonepteryx 

 rhamni Linn., J, the brimstone butterfly, common in Europe, Asia and North 

 Africa. 



Mr. Leng exhibited a species of Staphylinid beetle of the tribe Omalini, 



1 JouR. N. Y. Ent. Soc, VII, p. 22, 1899, 



