60 Journal New York Entomological Society, ["^'o'- xxix, 



Mr. Leng described the extraordinary abundance of coleoptera on the 

 shingly beach of North Hero Island, Lake Champlain. 



Mr. Woodruff spoke of his visit to Mrs. Slosson at Delaware Water Gap 

 and of his collecting at Litchfield, Conn. 



Mr. Eugene G. Smyth, present as a guest, spoke of the supposed trans- 

 mission of Sugar Cane Mottling Disease in Porto Rico by insects. 



Mr. Davis exhibited a bound volume of Mr, Sherman's catalogues of books 

 on insects ; also Blatchley's Orthoptera of the Eastern United States and 

 Morse's New England Orthoptera. 



Meeting of October 19. 



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

 8: 00 P.M., on October 19, 1920, in the American Museum of Natural History, 

 President L. B. Woodruff in the chair, with 21 members and four visitors 

 present. 



Mr. Barber read a paper on " A New Species of Thauniastocorid from 

 Cuba" (which has since been published in Bull. Br. Ent. Soc), illustrated by 

 specimens and blackboard illustrations. It was discussed by Messrs. Wood- 

 ruff, Hallinan, Bequaert and Lutz ; the latter pointed out that it might prove 

 another interesting instance of discontinuous distribution of a primitive sub- 

 family, Mr. Barber having established that the nearest relatives are known 

 from New South Wales and Tasmania. The specimens were found by Dr. 

 Mario Calvino crawling in crevices in young growth of the Royal Palm. 



Dr. Bequaert spoke on " Dispersal of Spores of Certain Mosses by Flies," 

 showing specimens of the flies and of the mosses, and blackboard drawings of 

 the latter. The mosses as identified by Dr. Wiegmann, were Tetraplodon 

 innioides and another species of the genus which grow only on dung or car- 

 rion and in northern or elevated or otherwise boreal situations. The fructi- 

 fication, instead of being dry so as to be readily dispersed by wind, is sticky ; 

 and apparently depends upon the fly in this case, a species of Phorbia, to 

 carry it from the capsule to fresh dung or carrion. The bright color of the 

 hypophysis attracts the fly and from its large stomata exudes a substance of 

 which the odor also probably acts as an attraction. Dr. Bequaert's investiga- 

 tions were made while Mr. Notman's guest in the Adirondacks and at an 

 elevation of about 5,000 ft. on July 28. 



Mr. Dickerson exhibited the Monthly Bulletin of California State Exp. 

 Station containing an article on Black Scale Parasite, particularly in reference 

 to Parthenogenesis. 



Mr. Wm. T. Davis read a clipping from a newspaper stating that October 

 14, with a temperature of 82 degrees, was the hottest October day recorded 

 in New York City. October 15 was also very warm. On these days the large 

 imported wasps, Vespa crabro, were encouraged to renew their activities in 

 nest building and a number were seen gnawing oft' the living bark of a lilac 

 bush in the Clove Valley on Staten Island. 



