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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NEW YORK ENTOMO- 

 LOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Meeti.vg of November 2. 



A regular meeting of the Xew York Entomological Society was held 

 November 2, 1920, in the Public Museum, Staten Island, at 8:00 P.M., Presi- 

 dent L. B. Woodrutt in the chair, with nim- members pnd three visitors 

 present. 



Xoah Levine, 1131 West Farms Road. Bron.x, was elected a member of 

 the Society. 



The request of Dr. Walther Horn, Berlin, for the replacement of certain 

 missing numbers of the Journal was granted. 



Mr. Burns exhibited his collection of " Staten Island Diptcra," contained 

 in I I bo.xes, the work of the last three years, pointing out some of the more 

 interesting species and the additions to local fauna. 



Dr. Bequaert commended the collection for its excellent preparation and 

 arrangement and said it was a remarkable example of what could be accom- 

 plished in a short time. He congratulated the collector, who well deserved 

 the compliment paid him liy \'an Duzee in Buffalo, whereby Dolichopus burnsii 

 n. sp. has been named for him. This little fly had been found near Cameron's 

 Pond, Arrochar, Staten Island, while collecting aquarium material for the 

 Museum. 



Mr. Davis presented " .An .Annotated List of Colorado Cicadas " illus- 

 trated by his collection thereof and compared with examples of those of New 

 York State. His paper will be printed in the Journal. 



Mr. Engelhardt spoke of visits to Tottenville, Staten Island, with Mr. 

 Davis, who in August had discovered a single specimen of Scsia rilcyana, a 

 northernmost record for the species which occurs from the District of Colum- 

 bia southward and westward to the Missis.'ippi. Many additional specimens 

 of the moth were found .August 24, and in October its larva was found, boring 

 in the roots of Solanum caroliiiense. On the same plant the potato weevil, 

 Trichobaris trinotata, was found, while splitting the stems for Scsia larvae. 



Mr. J. E. Logan, present as a visitor, exhibited a living specimen of 

 Miiiitis sinensis, found at .Arlington, Staten Island, on October 29, near 229 

 South .Ave., and said that he had a colony of this introduced species under 

 observation since July 31. He showed dried specimens found on that date. 

 He had known of the existence of the colony since 19 16, 



Mr. Davis said the matter was of special interest to him because he had 

 put out an egg mass at .Arlington in 1913. Mr. Davis also recorded a Staten 

 Island bee tree, found in October near Great Kills, in the top of a hollow oak, 

 blown down by a storm. 



