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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NEW YORK ENTOMO- 

 LOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Meeting of May 2, 1916. 



A regular meeting of the New York Entomological Society was held on 

 May 2, 1916, at 8:15 P.M., in the American Museum of Natural History, Presi- 

 dent Harry G. Barber in the chair, with seventeen members and three visitors 

 present. 



The Curator reported gift of insects from Natal from Mr. S. G. Rich. 



Mr. Wunder for the Outing Committee, brought up a Decoration Day 

 meeting at Lahaway for discussion. The Secretary was instructed to put a 

 notice in the Bulletin and further action was deferred to the next meeting. 



Mr. Schaeffer for the Publication Committee, reported progress and in- 

 terest shown in the Van Duzee List. 



Dr. J. Bequaert read " Remarks on North American Nycteribiids," illus- 

 trated by specimens of these bat parasites and the related Streblidae of similar 

 habits, pointing out the comparative scarcity of Nycteribiidje in the new world, 

 three species only being known out of fifty-four described in the family. The 

 taxonomy of the family was discussed and will be published later. 



The paper was discussed by the President and Dr. Lutz. 



Mr. Watson exhibited A try tone sabulon, contributing a note in reference 

 thereto, which will be printed in Miscellaneous Notes; also a small collection 

 of Lepidoptera from the River Amazon, between Para and Manaos, collected 

 by Dr. J. P. Thornley, on board a steamer during February ; and several boxes 

 of Florida Rhopalocera, collected by the Museum Expedition of 1914. covering 

 northern Florida, from Jacksonville to Pensacola, September 25 to October 21. 

 Mr. Watson said that the total number of species and varieties was 73, of 

 which 60 were found at Gainesville. The best single day's collection was on 

 September 28 at Gainesville, when 35 species and varieties were taken ; but at 

 Pensacola four males of Thanaos funeralis Scudder & Burgess, a species not 

 heretofore recorded from Florida, were found. The complete record will be 

 included in a forthcoming List of Florida Lepidoptera. 



Mr. Davis, after commenting on the skilful preparation of Mr. Watson's 

 butterflies, spoke of the abundance of the dogshead butterfly at Wilmington 

 and Southern Pines, N. C, he had noted during the past fortnight and of the 

 excellent wild country near Southport, N. C, where he and Mr. Barber had 

 also collected and where he had been able to personally experience the effects 

 of rattlesnake bite without serious results. 



The snake, a small ground rattler, about nine or ten inches long was found 

 disappearing in a pile of bricks, and its identity being unsuspected from the 

 usual rattles being replaced by a small button, was_ seized by the middle, per- 

 mitting it to turn and inflict a wound on one finger, followed by great swelling 

 and, by the next morning, some giddiness and much discoloration of the af- 



