238 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Vol. xiv. 



Berliner Entom. Zeitschrift, XLIX, Nos. 3 and 4; L, Nos. I and 2. 



Mus. Brooklyn Institute, Science Bulletin, Vol. I, No. 7. 



35th Ann. Rept. Ent. Soc. Ontario, 1904. 



Revista Mus. Paulista, Vol. VI (1904). 



Insect World, Vol. IX, No. 12; Vol. X, No. 1. 



Zeitschrift f. Wissentschaftliche Insekten biologie, Vol. I, No. 12; Vol. II, 

 No. 1. 



Mittheilungen d. Schweiz. Ent. Gesellschaft, Vol. XI, No. 3. 



Anales del Museo Nacional de Buenos Ayres, Ser. III. Tome V. 



Entom. Tidskrift, 1905, Nos. 1-4. 



Wiener Entom. Zeitung, Vol. XXV, No. I. 



Mr. Davis proposed as an active member of the Society Miss Francis J. Thomp- 

 son, 46 Stuyvesant PI., New Brighton, Staten Is 



Mr. Watson proposed Mr. Harvey Mitchell, Westwood, N. J., and Mr. Gay- 

 land C. Hall, 409 W. 145th St., as active members. 



The resignation of Professor W. G. Johnson as an active member was accepted. 



Mr. Engelhardt entertained the Society with an interesting account of his collect- 

 ing trip to southwestern Utah during the summer of 1905 and exhibited a box of the 

 rarer insects taken by him on the trip. 



Mr. Dickerson read a paper on Hyperaspis signata and exhibited a collection of a 

 long series of this species, showing a number of interesting varieties. He spoke of 

 the synonymy, and of the structural and color characteristics, habits of the larvae and 

 adult. He also exhibited specimens of the cottony maple scale upon which the larvae 

 feed. 



Mr. Davis exhibited a Papilio and a small crab spider, the former having fallen 

 a victim to the poisonous bite of the spider. 



Mr. Matausch exhibited a case containing many interesting exotic moths. 



Mr. Leng exhibited a box containing a map of the United States upon which 

 specimens of Cicindela repanda were pinned according to their known geographical 

 range. 



Meeting of March 20, 1906. 



Held at the American Museum of Natural History. 



President C. H. Roberts in the chair with eleven members present. 



On motion of Mr. Southwick, Miss Frances Thompson, Mr. Gayland C. Hall 

 and Mr. Harvey Mitchell were elected active members of the Society. 



Mr. Joutel proposed the name of Mr. E. A. Schwarz as an honorary member of 

 the Society and upon motion was unanimously elected. 



Dr. Zabriskie delivered a talk on the microscopical examination of the external 

 structure of hemipterous insects of the genera Anasa, Lygceus and Alydus. The address 

 related chiefly to curious structures which are seen after suitable bleaching and micro- 

 scopical mounting of dissections of these insects and which are found in the antennae, 

 mouth parts, legs, pronotum, coxae and wings. Especially noticeable in the antennae 

 J s a small cup-like, supplementary joint, between the third and fourth joints, thus far 

 found only in both sexes of Anasa tristis. In the mouth parts attention was directed 

 to the slender, ornamented labrum ; the form and arrangement of the barbs on the 

 delicate pair of lancets; the varying form of the tips of the pair of stout lancets and 



