Dec, 1916.] Proceedings of the Society. 307 



them midventral, the others laterodorsal. I do not know that this 

 is respiratory in structure, but it suggests the folds of the ^schnine 

 forms. I did not see any of these nymphs draw water into the anus, 

 but I did notice that one lived nine days without external gills. In 

 the nymph of Calopteryx, I found a similar ampulla, and stranger 

 still, another one just like it, also in the rectum. The fatty bags 

 seem to be projections into the lumen of the rectum, but do not 

 hang free into it. They are covered by a tough chitinous epithelium. 

 — Stephen G. Rich, 



Rhynchophora in Maine. — While collecting in Cumberland Co., 

 Maine, last summer, in the vicinity of Sebago Lake, I took the fol- 

 lowing weevils, which are not reported from that state in Blatchley 

 and Leng's Rhyncophora of Northeastern America, viz. : Apion puri' 

 tanum Fall, Anthonomiis hamanielidis Pierce, Balaninus ohtusus 

 Blanchard. — Alan S. Nicolay. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE NEW YORK ENTOMO- 

 LOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Meeting of May 16, 1916. 



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

 i6th, 1916, at 8:15 P. M., in the American Museum of Natural History, Presi- 

 dent Harry G. Barber in the chair, with 14 members and one visitor present. 



The curator reported a revision of the Membracidae of the Local Collection 

 by Mr. Olsen. 



Mr. Dow reported arrangements for Lahaway field trip, and the names 

 of members who had indicated their intention of joining it for one or more 

 days. 



Mr. Davis called attention to the forest fires at Wading River, Long 

 Island, often visited by our members, and spoke earnestly of the useless dam- 

 age done to Long Island through such fires. 



Mr. Leng exhibited a collection of the genus Tetracha, of which a great 

 part was loaned by Mr. Harris, and called special attention to the recent 

 increase in our knowledge thereof through the activity of Mr. Harris, Mr. 

 Davis and the Museum expeditions of Dr. Lutz and Mr. Mutchler. 



Mr. Davis commenting thereon spoke of the differences between Tetracha 

 Carolina var. floridana Mss. and allied forms and of comparisons he had made 

 in Washington while visiting Dr. Schwarz. 



