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were entirely absent. The Orthoptera were scarce until September when many 

 Belocephalus and an Atlantictis, probably undescribed, were found in consider- 

 able numbers at night by using a flashlight. The katydids were apparently 

 entirely absent. 



The illustrations showed many of these insects in color and included also 

 many items of human interest, homemade chairs covered with alligator hide, 

 bee hives made of hollow cypress logs, pelts of the coons, wild cat, bear, and 

 deer that are common in the swamp, methods of striking fish at night, protect- 

 ing sleeping tents from mosquitos ; and showed well the picturesque features of 

 the swamp, the trees draped with Spanish moss, the tupelos rising straight 

 from the coffee-colored water, bearing clumps of mistletoe with the herons 

 resting on their branches, and the sunset colors shining over all. 



Professor Bradley's remarks also brought out some of the less agreeable 

 features of the swamp, for he referred more than once to the swarms of 

 mosquitos, the great hairy spiders, the moccasins and rattlesnakes, the wading 

 through trails so moist that " the more you keep out of the trail the better 

 the walking," the swimming in 'gator holes in search of aquatic hymenoptera; 

 and were all followed with close attention. 



On account of the late hour, Mr. Wintersteiner's paper was postponed and 

 the Society adjourned for informal discussion of Professor Bradley's topic. 



Meetixg of December i6. 



A regular meeting of the New York Entomological Society was held 

 December i6, 1913, at 8:15 P. M., in the American Museum of Natural His- 

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

 present, and several visitors, including Mr. Buchholtz of the Newark Society. 



At the request of the curator, Mr. Leng announced that the Coleopterists 

 would resume Saturday afternoon meetings on December 20, the subject being 

 the Barini. 



Mr. Davis, as delegate to New York Academy of Sciences, stated that 

 the appropriation for Biological Survey of Porto Rico having been obtained, an 

 activity in which our members would be interested might soon be expected. 



The president and Dr. Lutz referred to the general character of the work 

 anticipated. 



Mr. Dow read a paper entitled " John Abbot of Georgia " in which he 

 presented a lifelike picture of this early entomologist who collected and 

 figured many of the insects described by Boisduval, the elder Leconte and 

 others, and carried on the researches recorded in the work of Abbot & Smith, 

 continuing at the age of 85 years, a correspondence with Dr. Thaddeus W. 

 Harris, from which some of Mr. Dow's data, heretofore unknown, were ob- 

 tained. This paper will be printed in full in the Journ.\l. 



Mr. Bird imder the title " A Thirteen-year Environmental Search " re- 

 counted the difficulty of locating the food plant of the moth Papaipema specio- 

 sissinia, finally found to be the large rootstock of three different species of 

 fern growing at the borders of salt meadows near Newark, where Mr. Buch- 



