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notes made at the time, which showed how he and Mr. Shoemaker had sugared 

 until midnight. The moths that were so plentiful in June were nearly absent 

 in September, but more butterflies were found, often attracted by urine on 

 the road. Mr. Davis noted that of the June noctuids many were in the first 

 part of the list, the September species coming later in the list as well as in 

 the season ; and spoke also of the generic changes in Lepidoptera due to 

 proper recognition of Hiibner's names. He closed by suggesting a correction 

 in Lovell's book, " The Flower and the Bee," where it is said that lilies with 

 inverted blossoms are not fertilized by Lepidoptera, based upon specimens of 

 Papilio he exhibited with their wings heavily coated with pollen of Lilium 

 superbum. These had been caught by Mr. Burns on Staten Island and by 

 himself at Yaphank. 



Mr. Woodruff spoke of the abundance and tameness of the deer near 

 Fancher's, where he had met Messrs. Davis and Engelhardt, also of the bear 

 and other animals. 



Mr. Engelhardt spoke of the great difference in the summits of the vari- 

 ous Catskill Mountains. 



Mr. Medsger, director of nature study in boys' camps in the Catskills, 

 who was present as a visitor, also exhibited Lepidoptera caught in his tent 

 during July and August, and spoke of meeting Mr. Dow and of the botany 

 of the Catskills, describing particularly the deep moss to be found on the steep 

 face of Slide, Wittenberg and Cornell Mts. The last, reached conveniently 

 from Woodland, Ulster Co., N. Y., was especially recommended on account 

 of the stand of virgin red spruce on the summit. 



Mr. Mutchler exhibited a series of Sobants poggei Harold, an African 

 prionide collected by Lang & Chapin, commenting upon the exceptional char- 

 acter of its red bands, the subfamily to which it belongs being generally devoid 

 of brilliant colors. 



Meeting of December 17. 



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

 8: 15 P.M., December 17, 191S, in the American Museum of Natural History, 

 Mr. Wm. T. Davis, chairman pro tern., with twenty members and three visi- 

 tors present. 



A letter from Lieut. W. J. Chamberlin, 91st Aero Squadron, France, was 

 read. 



Dr. Lutz read a " Review of Comstock's System of Wing Venation," illus- 

 trated by blackboard sketches, in which the development of a uniform termi- 

 nology, the studies of various authors in the wings of nymphs and pupae as 

 well as adults and the relation between the tracheation and venation were 

 explained. The primitive type of wing was sketched and the process of 

 evolution stated. In conclusion Dr. Lutz expressed his admiration of the 

 result from the point of view of comparative anatomy, but doubted its imme- 

 diate universal acceptance as a taxonomic system on account of the neces- 

 sarily cumbersome formulae it involved in designating the wings of highly spe- 

 cialized insects. 



