158 Journal New York Entomological Society, t^'o'- -^-"^i^ . 



for Vice-President, Lewis B. Woodruff ; for Secretary, Chas. W. Leng ; for 

 Treasurer, William T. Davis ; for Librarian, Frank E. Watson ; for Curator, 

 Andrew J. Mutchler; for Executive Committee, R. C. Osburn, C. E. Sleight, 

 R. P. Dow, E. Shoemaker, G. P. Engelhardt ; for Publication Committee, 

 Charles Schaeffer, F. E. Lutz, W. P. Comstock, E. L. Dickerson ; for Delegate 

 to New York Academy of Science, Wm. T. Davis. On motions duly made, 

 seconded and carried, the nominations were closed and the officers above 

 named were elected by affirmative ballot cast by the Secretary. 



The president appointed the Auditing Committee, C. F. Groth, G. W. J. 

 Angeli. John D. Sherman, Jr., and the Field Committee, Chas. Wunder and 

 Alan Sloan Nicolay. 



Mr. Sherman spoke of the Roberts collection of water beetles and the 

 effort being made to secure it for the American Museum ; also of a new Check 

 List of Coleoptera which, in conjunction with Mr. Leng, he hoped to publish. 



Mr. Ottolengui spoke of his pleasure in being able to attend the meeting 

 after thirteen years' absence, and his sorrow at hearing of Mr. Roberts's illness. 



Mr. Davis spoke of " Some Insects from Western New York," using as 

 exhibits a map showing the. 8oo-mile route covered by automobile with Profs. 

 Bradley and Crosby, of Cornell University, Mr. Hook, and Dr. Forbes as 

 companions, several large boxes of insects and many photographs of the 

 region, besides specimens of plants, rocks and oil peculiarly indicative of its 

 character. He said in part that the southwestern corner of the State, near 

 Olean, was selected a year ago, because it was on the watershed of the Alle- 

 gheny River, and that at Rock City an excellent base was located where the 

 care necessary to preserve the oil derricks from fire kept the woodland in the 

 best condition for entomologists, while the elevation of 2,300 ft. and the con- 

 nection with the West through the Allegheny River (evidenced by the pres- 

 ence of the cucumber tree) caused the occurrence of many interesting species. 

 The preliminary visits to McLean, near Ithaca, remarkable for its cold high- 

 land swamp, where Labrador tea, the small cranberry and trillium grow, and 

 to various glens near Ithaca, and subsequent visits to Watkins Glen, Lake 

 Erie, Potter's Swamp and Letchworth Park, were also interesting. 



Among the insects shown, Phyciodes batesii, which was taken in con- 

 siderable numbers, was styled the prize catch, though a mountain form of 

 Papilio turnns. Melitcca Iiarrisi and Picris oleracecc were also conspicuous 

 among the butterflies. Tachopteryx thoreyi. collected at Portage, Gomphits 

 descriptus from West Danby and Ithaca, and Tetragoneuria cants from West 

 Danby, were among the fourteen species of dragonflies shown. 



Henicocephalus biceps Say (culicis auct) was observed gathering in 

 swarms over piles of sawdust like flies, as described by O. A. Johannsen, in 

 Psyche, XVI, 1909, and was another interesting capture. 



Exceptionally large galls made by the fly, Enrosta soUdaginis, on golden 

 rod, as described by Chi Ping in Pomona Journal Ent. & Zool., VII, 19^5, 

 formed another exhibit. A large number of Atithonomns sp. found on Kalmia 

 latifolia. and of Malthodes sp. were among the many interesting coleoptera 



