Sept.-Dcc, 19^1.] Proceedings. 1S3 



vegetable debris at base of trees in fall and under stones in spring, and called 

 attention to the discovery of Balrisodes caseyi Dury on the Palisades. He 

 also spoke of Mr. Davis finding the Scydmaenid Connophron elongalum in 

 Cape May Co., X. J. 



Mr. Weiss read a paper on " Colt-optcra of the Milkweed," which will be 

 published entire, illustrated by specimens of-adult larva and work of the differ- 

 ent species, especially Tetraopes, of which he gave the first complete life 

 history. 



Mr. Dickcrson followed with a paper on " Other Insects of the Milk- 

 weed," treated in the same way, which also will be published in full. 



The work of these two members was freely discussed and greatly admired. 



Mr. Shoemaker gave an account of " Beetle Collecting at Washington, 

 D. C," during 1920, with an exhibition of the many fine species he had caught, 

 including records for Leptura americana and Cacoplia publata. 



Mr. E. .\. Chapin and Prof. H. C. Fall, present as visitors, spoke briefly 

 on the work that they had recently done. 



Mr. A. S. Van Winkle, also present as a visitor, made an interesting 

 address on his recollections of the entomologists of 40-50 years ago, especially 

 referring to Louis Agassiz. C. V. Riley, Otto Lugger, and Dr. John C. Kucklin. 



Meeting of J.^nu.vrv 18. 



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

 8:00 P.M., on January 18, 192 1, in the American Museum of Natural History, 

 President John D. Sherman, Jr., in the chair, with 13 members present. 



Edward Davis Quirsfeld, 523 4th St., Union Hill, X. J., was proposed as 

 an active member by Mr. Mutchler. 



Mr. Xotman, under the title " Xotes on Staphylinidae," presented, with 

 blackboard illustrations, a graphic account of the wealth of structural char- 

 acters possessed by that family of beetles. The head was first considered with 

 respect to its form, and its modifications in its various parts ; the mouth parts, 

 the antennae, and the sutures were discussed in detail. The thorax, the elytra, 

 the mesocoxal parts followed. The exhibit accompanying Mr. Notman's re- 

 marks, taken from his own collection, showed 150 genera, all but 3 or 4 of the 

 Xorth .American tribes, with many rare and minute species, including the 

 remarkable Beyeria found by Mr. Gustav Beyer in .Arizona. Mr. Xotman 

 spoke without notes and displayed a remarkable familiarity with his subject. 



Dr. Bcquaert spoke of the genus Pccderus as the cause of an epidemic of 

 blisters in the Congo. The beetle alighting on the skin at night would be 

 crushed by the sleeper's hand. A red spot followed in a few days by a vesicle 

 containing a little ccrosity re«ults and leaves a scar. He had notes showing 

 that this occurred in southern Russia, Khartoon, and Brazil, as well as in 

 the Congo. 



Dr. Bcquaert presented a " Rev icw of C. HouUurt's ' .\natoniie ct Physi- 



