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the southernmost records for the species which is usually found in New 

 England, Canada and northern North America. 



He also showed specimens of Criorhina verbosa Harris personally cap- 

 tured after a dozen year's hunt, and an interesting series of Pipiza albopilosa 

 Williston, new to the New Jersey List, caught May lo about wet places under 

 the Palisades, a locality reached by motor boat ferry from Dykeman Street 

 station of the subway, and very desirable as a collecting ground. He said 

 Johnson had put femoralis and albopilosa together, possibly correctly, since 

 in the Palisades series of nine males (which sex in Diptera often emerges 

 before the female) only five were pure albopilosa, while four showed abdom- 

 inal spots approaching in varying degree the markings of femoralis, though 

 none were the typical femoralis as shown in Canadian specimens received 

 from Chagnon. These Syrphids were very rapid on the wing and were caught 

 hovering over the bushes. 



Mr. Roberts mentioned that the Ramsey specimens in Mr. Sleight's collec- 

 tion, supposed to be Haliphis nificoUis, proved to be uniformly Haliphis 

 blanchardi. 



Mr. Lcng exhibited, at the request of the publisher, the first number of 

 a new journal, " Microkosmos." 



Society adjourned until first Tuesday in October. 



Meeting of October 6, 1914. 



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

 October 6, 1914, at 8.15 P. M., in the American Museum of Natural History, 

 President Dr. Raymond C. Osburn in the chair, with seventeen members and 

 two visitors, Mr. Bridgeman and Mr. Chas. T. Ramsden, of Guantanamo, Cuba, 

 present. 



Mr. Barber spoke of his visits to Porto Rico, stating that Mr. Watson 

 and he had started from New York on July 4 and spent four weeks on the 

 island, collecting insects of all orders at San Juan, Ponce, Mayaguez, Arecibo, 

 Coamo Spring and Aibonito in the mountains of the interior, at which last 

 named locality they found the best collecting. The season did not prove the 

 best for collecting ; April, May and June would have been better. He spoke 

 of the great difference in the physical characteristics of the places visited and 

 promised further details later. 



Mr. Barber also spoke of his visits to Pine Island, N. Y., where early in 

 the summer he found good collecting in and around the great swamps, and to 

 Nebraska and Missouri, where towards the end of the summer it was too hot 

 and dry for good results. 



Mr. Davis spoke first of the Society's field day at Wading River, L. I., 

 then of his trips to the summit of Whiteface Mountain, N. Y., with Mr. Shoe- 

 maker, and finally of the Catskill Mountains, N. Y., and Riverhead, L. I. At 

 the last named place he found two beetles of interest, Strategus anta-us and 

 Cicindcla abdominalis, both known from the Pine Barrens of New Jersey. 

 The first, popularly known as Ox-beetle, was first found by Mr. SchaefTer in 



