March. 1919.] PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 109 



After reading these statements I carefully examined my own col- 

 lection and found that the sixty-six adults collected at La Grange, 

 Miami, Key West, Everglade, Mt. Myers and Punta Gorda, Florida, 

 were in every case females, as were also two from Guantanamo in 

 Cuba. However, among seven adults collected in the Reptile House 

 of the New York Zoological Society on January 12, 1914, I discov- 

 ered a single male, easily told by its smaller body and longer cerci. 

 These roaches, together with many Pcriplancta americana, were 

 found among the straw in the winter quarters of the giant land 

 turtles. 



It is well known that among some of our native roaches the fe- 

 males long outlive the males, and it is quite possible that the males of 

 the Surinam roach occur in very early spring in southern Florida. — 

 Wm. T. Davis. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE NEW YORK ENTOMO- 

 LOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Meeting of December 3. 



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

 8: 15 P.M., December 3, 191 8, in the American Museum of Natural History; 

 President L. B. Woodruff in the chair, with eighteen members and three visi- 

 tors present, including Prof. O. P. Medsger, of the Torrey Botanical Club. 



Mr. L. B. Reyonlds, 11 Ellsworth Ave.. Brockton, Mass., and Sergt. W. B. 

 Richardson, Richmond, Va., were elected active members. 



Mr. Davis spoke with regret of the death of Frederick Knab, reading 

 some extracts from a letter of his executor, A. N. Caudell, relative to the 

 dispersal of his ashes by wind in the woods. 



Mr. Dickerson read for Mr. Weiss a paper on " Some Beetles from Rose 

 Mallow," illustrated by specimens of the beetles and their work in the plant 

 and as far as possible by larvae and pupae. The paper will be printed under 

 the joint authorship of Messrs. Weiss and Dickerson. 



Mr. Leng spoke of the dubious identity of Chcrtocnema they had found 

 on the leaves, probably a variety of quadricollis Sz. described from Florida. 



Mr. Shoemaker exhibited a large number of " Lepidoptera from Slide 

 Mountain," saying that he had visited the locality for the last three years and 

 mentioning many of the valuable captures he had made at sugar ; also the 

 Cychrus viduus found in the same way. 



Mr. Davis exhibited six boxes of Lepidoptera captured while with Mr. 

 Shoemaker in June and with Dr. Bequaert and Mr. Engelhardt in September 

 and a number of photographs of the locality. He read from his journal 



