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Island, where many species of Anthicus were found in the sand, while Psela- 

 phidx were abundant under high tide bushes in the adjoining salt meadow; 

 and at Ward's Point, Statcn Island, where a number of species were obtained 

 by pulling up the grasses and shrubs growing in the sand. 



Dr. Lutz introduced Mr. Ramsden, who spoke of collecting insects in the 

 eastern end of Cuba, stating that the best seasons were usually from April 15 

 to June 15, and from September 15 to November 15, the two rainy seasons, 

 though in some years rains starting in February would bring good collecting 

 earlier. Two or three days' rain is sufficient to start the insects and an inter- 

 ruption of dry windy weather will check them, good collecting being really 

 a product of moisture rather than season. Mr. Ramsden closed by extending 

 an invitation to entomologists to visit him at his sugar plantation at 

 Guantanamo. 



Mr. Dow spoke of finding Phlegethontius cingulata and Colias eurytheme 

 in Brooklyn, and of his correspondence during the summer with several 

 entomologists. 



Mr. J. W. Angell spoke of his visit to Twin Lake, Conn., recommending 

 it as a desirable locality, embracing lakes, forests and swamps of boreal 

 character. 



Mr. Engelhardt referred to the capture of a specimen of Catocala herodias 

 at Wading River as an additional example of Pine Barren insects occurring 

 on Long Island. 



Mr. Davis said its food plant was Quercus nana and that it was therefore 

 liable to occur elsewhere and in fact did. The larva, resembling a swelling on 

 the bark, had been found on that tree and raised. 



Mr. Wheat showed many photographs of the Bahamas and particularly of 

 the long string of small keys among which he had cruised this summer. He 

 said there were apparently very few insects, practically no mosquitoes or flies 

 and only a few species of mothes and butterflies. 



Meeting of October 20, 1914. 



A regular meeting of the New York Entomological Society was held Octo- 

 ber 20, 1914, at 8.1S P. M., in the American Museum of Natural History, Vice- 

 President Barber in the chair, with seventeen members and one visitor, Dr. 

 Robert T. Morris, of the Linmean Society, present. 



Mr. Leng read a paper on " Nut and Acorn Weevils," exhibiting his col- 

 lection and that of Mr. Davis. He gave a resume of the literature, especially 

 praising the paper by Fred E. Brooks, contained in Bulletin 128 of the W. Va. 

 Agl. Exp. Station published in 1910. In reviewing the synonymy, he agreed 

 with Casey's views published in Can. Ent., 1910, by which Dalaninus recttis 

 Say is interpreted as the acorn weevil with a long straight beak in the female, 

 but added that B. quercus Horn is evidently the male of the same species, as 

 shown by specimens taken in copulation by Mr. Davis, as well as the study 

 of the descriptions. Since the name rectus was previous to Casey's 1910 paper 

 applied to the smaller chestnut weevil, it follows that the name algonquinus, 



