March, 1914] PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 85 



Mr. Wintersteiner exhibited his collection of the American and European 

 species of Cercyon and read a paper entitled " Preliminary Remarks on 

 Cercyon " in which he pointed out that structural characters separate three 

 groups of different habits, viz. : dwellers by the seashore, under manure and 

 under decomposing vegetation, and that while some species, at least, of the 

 first two groups, possibly carried by ocean currents or by commerce, seemed 

 to be common to the old and the new world ; the species of the third group, 

 living under decomposing vegetation, are not, as a rule, identical in Europe 

 and America. The circumpolar distribution of the genus, accepted as a fact 

 by Dr. Horn, becomes therefore very doubtful. 



This paper was discussed by the president and Mr. Schaeffer, and will be 

 printed in full in the Journal. 



Mr. R. P. Dow read a paper on " The Greatest Coleopterist " in which the 

 early life of Dr. Leconte, his relations with his father, and his accomplish- 

 ments during thirty-nine years of active entomological work, were remarkably 

 portrayed. This paper will be printed in this journal. 



Mr. Leng read a paper " Notes on Scapliinotus " which will also be 

 printed in the Journal, exhibiting his collection and a drawing of 5". slioe- 

 makeri n. subsp. made by Mr. Ernest Shoemaker, who had found the speci- 

 mens near Washington, D. C. 



Mr. Angell exhibited his long series of this and other species of 

 Scaphinohis. 



Mr. Davis read a paper on " The Flight of Cicindela unipunctafa " illus- 

 trated by specimens with the wings expanded, and another on " Swarming 

 of Dineutes discolor and Gyrinus dichrous," which species he found did not 

 mingle. These will also be printed in the Journal. 



Mr. J. H. Emerton, present as a visitor, on request, spoke of the spider 

 Epeira labyrinthea, and an allied species, differing in form of body and mark- 

 ings, in its web and other characteristics, and which has so far been found 

 only in the mountains of Colorado, and in a swamp in Maine, where. Dr. 

 Fernald states, certain Colorado mountain plants are also found. 



Mr. Angell called attention to the name Carabus lecontei Casey as being 

 preoccupied by C. lecontei Gehin proposed for a form of C. Mareander from 

 Lake Superior, mentioned but not named by Leconte. 



Meeting of January 20. 



A regular meeting of the New York Entomological Society was held 

 January 20, 1914, at 8:15 P. M., in the American Museum of Natural History, 

 President Dr. Raymond C. Osburn in the chair, and twenty members present. 



The curator reported the local collection of spiders as now aggregating 

 196 species, and read a letter from Mr. J. H. Emerton, mentioning the ease 

 with which collectors of Coleoptera could add to this number by simply put- 

 ting spiders encountered into alcohol. 



He also mentioned gifts to the local collection of Scaphinotus shoe- 

 makeri from Mr. Angell, and of Scydm(Bnidee, Pselaphidce and Aleochannce 

 from Mr. Leng. 



