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shine that brought out plenty of insects and a visit to Yosemite National Park 

 were also features of his journey. 



Mr. Harris described, as the principal result of several weeks in the 

 White Mts., the location of Cicindela ancocisconensis on the watershed of the 

 Israel River, a tributary of the Connecticut River, it having previously been 

 known to occur in the White Mts. only in the Saco River valley, along the 

 Glen Road near Ellis River, where his father found it in 1850. Mr. Harris 

 exhibited also a box of Cicindela limbalis received from Col. Wirt Robinson, 

 who had taken them at West Point, N. Y., and read a card from Dr. Walther 

 Horn dated July 29, sending greetings to his American friends from the 

 German field hospital on the Russian border. 



Mr. Nicolay said his summer had been spent in Cumberland County, 

 Maine, five miles from Sebago Lake ; at Sudbury, Vermont, and at Lake 

 Minnewaska, N. Y. In Maine the conditions proved similar to those found 

 in northern New York, though the elevation was only 1,200 ft. Many good 

 beetles were found, including Anthophilax malachiticus and Pachyta rugipennis, 

 but black flies and mosquitoes were unpleasantly abundant. 



Mr. Woodruff spoke of many short trips made to Litchfield, Conn., 

 Yaphank, Rockaway, Lakehurst, sometimes with other collectors and particu- 

 larly of the dragonfly results. 



Mr. Davis in consideration of the late hour, spoke very briefly of his 

 summer activity in North Carolina, Virginia, New Jersey and New York, but 

 took pains to call attention to a specimen of Papilio palamedes found by 

 Edward Burns, June 18, 19 14, at Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island. 



Mr. Dickerson said he had been in the field practically every day, engaged 

 in nursery inspection work with Mr. Weiss, and would report later the more 

 important results. 



Mr. Leng exhibited European Rhynchophora found near Batavia, N. Y., 

 wihle with Mr. Knight, Mr. Davis and Dr. Bradley in June; also an ap- 

 parently new species of Syncalypta found at the same time. 



Mr. Barber spoke enthusiastically of the collecting near Washington, 

 D. C, and especially about the Great Falls. 



Mr. Herbert Barber, upon the President's invitation, spoke also of the 

 collecting about Washington and the species apparently brought there from 

 considerable distances by the Potomac River; but said he was unable to devote 

 much attention to it on account of the time required to find enough myriapods 

 to feed the long-lived Lampyrid larvae that were the special subject of his 

 biological work, though rare species were occasionally thus found at night, as 

 shown by a fine pair of Cychriis ridingsii. He said he now had the complete 

 life history of one species of Phengodes, and partial histories of others. 



Mr. Engelhardt proposed a trip to Yaphank for Sunday, Oct. 8, to show 

 Mr. Barber that locality for Phengodes. 



