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ranciis, the common species about Xew York, extends from the Atlantic to 

 the Pacific and even into Mexico, with slight varieties in which the elytra are 

 smoother, known as texanus and califoniicus. S. substriatus is larger, differs 

 in the outer joints of the antennae more elongate and in the possession of two 

 or three denticles in the emargination behind the second tooth of the front 

 tibiae where subterraneus has generally only one. Substriatus has also a smooth 

 variety in Texas called lissopterus. A third species, alternatus, is reported 

 with some doubt from Chokoluskee, Fla. It is known from Cuba and has a 

 larger head, elytra different in form and the strije at the sides of the elytra 

 deeply impressed. 



Mr. Schaeffer's remarks were discussed by Messrs. Davis and Leng. 



The secretary read a communication from Mr. Joutel on the queens of 

 white ants he had found which will be printed in the Journ.\l. 



Mr. Woodruff mentioned that he had received a quantity of white ants 

 from timber in a house at Washington Square, among which were two queens, 

 but not developed as those described by Mr. Joutel. 



Discussion by Dr. Forbes and Messrs. Davis and Schaeffer followed. 



The secretary read by title two communications from Mr. Dow on 

 Malacliius (cnens and Alans canadensis which will be printed in the Journal. 



Meeting of December 2. 



A regular meeting of the Xew York Entomological Society was held 

 December 2, 1913, at 8:15 P. M., in the American Museum of Natural His- 

 tory, President Dr. Raymond C. Osburn in the chair, with twenty members 

 and several visitors, including Mr. Roland M. Harper, present. 



Dr. Lutz presented on behalf of Mr. Grossbeck additions to the Society's 

 collection of photographs. 



Messrs. Engelhardt and de Vyver also presented photographs. 



Prof. J. Chester Bradley of Cornell University, after showing illustra- 

 tions of the localities on the Canoochee River where he had taken Cicindela 

 blauda at or near the type locality cited by Dr. Leconte for its synonym tarsalis 

 Lee. ; and of clusters of Hippodamia as large as one's fist on bushes at summit 

 of Rabun Bald, Ga., read a paper on " Collecting Insects in the Okenfenoke 

 Swamp " illustrated by lantern slides in part loaned by Mr. F. H. Harper, of 

 which many were colored by Mrs. Yantis. The paper and the maps thrown on 

 the screen covered the historical character of this swamp, located in the south- 

 east corner of Georgia and 300 miles in circumference; the character of the 

 vegetation in its different portions, such as the " islands," slightly elevated 

 parts, on one of which, Billy's Island, the expedition camped, where long leaf 

 pines, 80 feet high, are abundant, and where two families named Lee reside 

 permanently ; the intervening swamp darkened by the dense vegetation and 

 inhabited by alligators, snakes and great hairy spiders, through which passage 

 for man or boat must be cut out of the trees, bushes and interlacing vines with 

 machetes ; the " hummocks " which rise out of the swamp too little to support 

 pines ; the " prairies," open places with dense sphagnum and herbaceous vege- 



