120 Journal Xew York Entomological Society, f^'o'- >^xix, 



Meeting of November 20. 



A regular meeing of the Kew York Entomological Society was held at 

 8:00 P.M., on November 16, 1920. in the American Museum of Natural His- 

 tory, President L. B. Woodruff in the chair, with eighteen members present. 



Mr. Jones exhibited " A New Papaipenia and Two Rare Psychids from 

 Southern Delaware." After speaking of the neglect by entomologists of the 

 peninsula formed by southern Delaware, eastern Maryland and eastern Vir- 

 ginia, Mr. Jones described the Papaipema he had reared from stems of Aralia 

 spinosa, the Hercules Club; and then spoke of the species of Psychidae, includ- 

 ing the large number of references to the well known Bag worm and the 

 scanty information about the other species, ending with an account of a new 

 species discovered on pine. 



Mr. Bird called attention to an article in The American Botanist, 1920, 

 Vol. 26, p. 106, on " Mountain Climbing Lady Bugs," which drew forth a re- 

 minder of E. K. Carnes' account " Collecting Lady Birds by the Ton," in the 

 monthly Bulletin of the California State Commission of Horticulture for Feb- 

 ruary, 1912. and a comparison of the habits of Atlantic and Pacific Coast 

 Coccinellidae. 



Mr. Schaeffer gave a learned discussion of the synonymy of the genus 

 Donacia, particularly devoted to the recognition, as far as possible without 

 access to types, of the species described by Lacordaire and other early authors. 

 His conclusions required sinking some of the names he had himself proposed 

 in synonymy and in restoring many old names, erroneously placed in synonymy 

 by Dr. LeConte and Leng ; but Mr. Schaeft'er admitted being still in doubt as 

 to some of the names. 



Mr. Engelhardt gave an interesting account of Grape Vine Rootborers, 

 Parenthrene polistiformis Harris, of which P. semiiwle Newmoegen is a syno- 

 nym, known from \'ermont to Florida and west to Minnesota, and of two 

 new species, one from Nevada Co., Calif., the other from Victoria, Texas, 

 where it lives in Ampelopsis incisa, attacking shoots above ground, causing an 

 enlargement, which the larva leaves to pupate in the ground. \ general dis- 

 cussion on mimicry followed. 



Meeting of December 7. 



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

 8 : 00 P.M., in the American Museum of Natural History, President L. B. 

 Woodruff in the chair, with fifteen members and one visitor present. 



The minutes of the preceding meeting were read and approved. 



Mr. Albert Efiingham Lawrence, 105 West 69th St., was nominated for 

 active membership by Mr. Davis. 



Mr. Weiss exhibited the fungus Pomes applauatits with the egg capsules 

 of the beetle, Bolelotlienis bifnrcns, covered by excrement, deposited in 

 crevices. 



