242 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Vol. xxvii. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE NEW YORK ENTOMO- 

 LOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Meeting of February 18. 



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

 8:00 P.M., February 18, 1919, in the American Museum of Natural History, 

 President L. B. Woodruff in the chair, with 18 members and two visitors 

 present. 



The following active members were elected : Lt. Willard J. Chamberlin, 

 Oregon Exp. Sta., Corvallis, Oregon; Morton R. Peck, M.D., Cornwall-on-the- 

 Hudson, N. Y. ; J. W. Smith, 212 Madison Ave., Paterson, N. J.; Waldo 

 Kortright, 123 May St., Hawthorne, N. J. 



Dr. Lutz exhibited Memoirs III, N. S., Am. Mus, N. H., Oct., 1918, con- 

 taining " Illustrations of the N. Am. Sp. of the gen. Catocala " with extraor- 

 dinary profusion of colored plates, possibly the most sumptuous volume of 

 American entomology published. 



A photograph of Dr. A. Fenyes, of Pasadena, was received. Papers on 

 the legs of insects were read by Mr. Barber (Hemiptera), Dr. Lutz (honey 

 bee), Mr. Schott (Calotarsa J 1 ), Dr. Felt (Gall Midges), and were freely 

 discussed by the members ; Mr. Sturtevant, present as a visitor, referring es- 

 pecially to the mutations observed in legs of Drosophila, Dr. Lutz to the so- 

 called " sex combs," and Dr. Bequaert to the paucity of interesting adapta- 

 tions in legs of Diptera as compared with those of Hymenoptera, excepting 

 always the pulvillus on the foot of the fly, of which he spoke at some length. 



Lt. Chamberlin described the conditions under which his work in the 

 Air Service had been performed in France and of his few opportunities for 

 collecting there and in Italy. 



Meeting of March 4. 



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

 8:00 P.M., in the American Museum of Natural History on March 4, 1919, 

 President L. B. Woodruff in the chair, with 19 members present. 



Mr. Davis presented $100.00 to the Society, which at his suggestion was 

 on motion of Mr. Sherman added to the Permanent Fund. 



The donation was greeted by applause and a formal vote of thanks to 

 Mr. Davis. 



Mr. Leng announced the death on March 2, in his eightieth year, of 

 Edward Doubleday Harris, Vice-President of the Society, and moved that a 

 minute be hereby entered expressing the regret of the Society and that a 

 suitable obituary notice be printed in the Journal,— carried. 



Mr. Davis showed a male and female cicada, Tibicen bermudina Verrill, 

 from the Bermuda Islands and our native Tibicen lyricen DeGeer. These two 

 species closely resemble each other, though distinct, and bermudina is prob- 



