56 Journal New York Entomological Society. 



Meeting of April iS, 1905. 



Held at the American Museum of Natural History. President C. II. Roberts in 

 the chair with nine members present. 



Mr. Leng read a paper on " Collecting in the Pine Woods of North Carolina." 

 He and Mr. Harris arrived at Southern Pines, N. C, on the 25th of March and col- 

 lected in that vicinity for three days. In his description of the country Mr. Peng 

 stated that it was much like Lakehurst, N. J., but not so flat. The weather was warm 

 and the fruit trees were all in full bloom. Butterflies and cicindelas were flying 

 plentifully. A striking feature of the landscape was the peculiar long-leaved pine 

 with its great bunches of mistletoe. Most of the tiger beetles noticed belonged to 

 three species: unicolor, vulgaris and repanda, which were evidently hibernating 

 specimens judging from their condition. Mr. Peng exhibited the collection which 

 was made on the trip. 



Mr. Schaeffer stated that because of the great activity of the coleopterists, new 

 and additional material is being secured which helps to clear up doubts, correct mis- 

 takes, and also in many instances overthrows even recent synopses of genera or fam- 

 ilies. As an illustration he exhibited eight or nine speciesof Anomala which had 

 been found in Arizona, New Mexico and Texas which are new to our fauna ; some of 

 them known Mexican species and three entirely new, bringing the number of species 

 up to twenty. He further remarked that luteipennis of Leconte was in his opinion 

 attributed to the wrong insect as the " pygidio parcius, sat grasse punctato " does not 

 fit the pale specimens of binotata from Texas and Arizona, but those specimens of 

 flavipennis, which are metallic green and have the elytra testaceous, occurring in 

 Texas, agree much better with the description. The pale form of binotata, regarded 

 by Dr. Horn and others as luteipennis, and revived by Major Casey and Dr. Ohaus 

 to specific standing, he thinks, as did Dr. Horn, that it is impossible in a moderately 

 large series to retain it even as a variety. The type of innuka of Fabricius, of which 

 Dr. Horn was in doubt, as well as Burmeister's type of minuta, were examined by 

 Dr. Ohaus, and the good description of both given by the latter enabled Mr. 

 Schaeffer to correctly identify both species, and that what we have called minuta is 

 vnnuka : the true minuta belongs to the subgenus Rhomhonyx and are, in his 

 opinion, undoubtedly those darker forms of semilivida mentioned by Dr. Horn in his 

 paper. 



H. G. Barber, 



Secretary. 



