334 Journal New York Entomological Society, t^'"'- -^>^n. 



Mr. Schaefifer himself and others added to our fauna by his investigations. 

 Mr. Schaeffer referred particularly to a remarkable form from Lakehurst, with 

 cinarginate clypeus, agreeing in many characters with the description given 

 for the Kansas and Texas species cribricollis, and asked that members having 

 Lakehurst specimens should examine them carefully; also to a small, shining 

 form of pennsylvanicus from Florida and Texas. He also mentioned the great 

 differences in Onthophagus and other Coprinse between the major and minor 

 males in development of cephalic and thoracic protuberances, illustrated by a 

 series of Phanccus diffonnis. 



Mr. Barber exhibited Belostomidae from South America, determined by 

 a Hungarian authority, and a series of Lygcrus albuhis Distant, collected by 

 Mr. Olsen at Yaphank, L, I., stating that this species, originally described 

 from Mexico, had been found at widely separated localities, viz. : Florida and 

 Woods Hole, Mass. 



Mr. Dow exhibited the work on entomology of Thos. Mouffet, published 

 in 1634, but evidently prepared for the press by some one else, since Mouffet 

 died in 1580. Mr. Dow said the material on which the work was based seemed 

 to have been gathered by Conrad Gessncr in Germany and to have served for 

 eleven or twelve editions by various hands, including Edward Wharton and 

 Martin Lister, who left his manuscript to John Ray. The number of pre- 

 ceding authors cited was interesting and the notoriety of the work was suffi- 

 cient to have caused MoufFet's name associated with invertebrate life to 

 appear in nursery rhyme. 



Dr. Osburn called attention to the accuracy with which the expanded 

 pouch of the male sea horse, in which the ggs laid by the female are carried, 

 was figured on oiie of the plates. 



Mr. Davis exhibited Donacia einargiiiata from Lakehurst, N. J., taken by 

 sweeping the palustral vegetation by the side of the ditches adjoining the rail- 

 road tracks ; and, commenting upon Mr. Woodruff's recent discovery of the 

 pupae on roots of Caltlta palustris, said this plant did not occur at Lakehurst, 

 so the species must have other food plants as well. 



Mr. Woodruff said he expected that it bred in skunk cabbage. 



Mr. Leng showed photographs made by Mrs. Ellen Robertson Miller of 

 Donacia pahnata, its larvae and their work on Yellow Water Lily. 



Mr. Comstock showed three very different forms of the common little 

 copper butterfly, Chrysophanus liypnplilcras Bdv., collected and mounted by 

 Mr. Hall, and commented on the recent duplication of the description of the 

 form without spots, j. e., oblilerata Scudder. 



Mr. Schaeffer called attention to the long wet spring as being specially 

 favorable to the development of melanic forms. 



Mr. Mutchler exhibited Metaniasius sericcns and M. hciniptcnts. quoting 

 Champion's doubts as to their being distinct on account of similar male char- 

 acters and giving in detail the known distribution of each, by which it appeared 

 that the one was confined to South America, the Lesser Antilles and Porto 

 Rico, while the other was found in Cuba and Jamaica. He also spoke of the 

 food habits, boring in the trunks of moribund banana, and apparently as a 



