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pettiti, three specimens of Cychrus, Brathinus nitidus, Cicindela ancocisconensis 

 and other Coleoptera, commenting upon the beetles collected there at sugar 

 and in traps. 



Mr. Notman said that he also had found Cychrus in traps in the Adiron- 

 dacks, the species being brevoorti, at an elevation of 3,000 feet. 



Mr. Mutchler exhibited, for Mr. Weiss, the larva of the European corn- 

 borer, Pyrausta nubilalis, and a pkoto of the placard issued in reference thereto 

 by the Agricultural Department. 



Mr. Burns exhibited Platychirus entangled in red top grass (Agrostis 

 alba) found by him at Watchogue, Staten Island, July 28. 



Meeting of April i. 



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

 8:00 P.M., April 1, 1919, in the American Museum of Natural History, with 

 the Vice-President John D. Sherman, Jr., in the chair, and 26 members and 

 three visitors present. 



Dr. Bequaert, for the Field Committee, reported postponement of April 

 6 excursion to Flushing, until April 20, on account of late season. 



Mr. Schaeffer, under the title " Remarks on the Clerid genus Aulicus 

 Spin.," exhibited his collection and said that the single species in the Henshaw 

 Check List, viz. : A. nero Spinola was described from Mexico and probably 

 did not occur in the United States. Another Mexican species, A. monticola, 

 has been taken in Alpine, Texas, by Prof. Wickham. A. femoralis, from 

 Nogales, Ariz., since described, as well as several other undescribed species, 

 have been confused with nero. As in Cicindela, there is much variation in the 

 maculation which probably caused Dr. Horn, and others, to refer the different 

 forms to A. nero. Specimens from New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, Nevada and 

 Mexico had been obtained from various sources and none agreed with the 

 description of nero. Mr. Schaeffer described the differences he had noted in 

 the antennal club, which should be abruptly clubbed to agree with generic 

 characters of Aulicus, but is in a few species actually dilated from the sixth 

 or seventh joint; and in the claws which should be simple, but are more or 

 less toothed in certain males, so that it became difficult to decide whether they 

 should all be referred to Aulicus or new genera erected on characters pos- 

 sessed by the males only. Mr. Schaeffer reserved decision pending examina- 

 tion of more specimens. 



Mr. Davis read " Collecting Notes from Gardiner's Island " and exhibited 

 five boxes of specimens, many photographs, maps, etc., to illustrate his account 

 of the locality. This island lies east of Long Island, N. Y., is about 5X3 

 miles, and contains two very old forests, a large pond, beaches, sand dunes, 

 marsh, all preserved from desecration by thirteen generations of continuous 

 ownership in one family. The following interesting insects were observed; 

 39 species of Orthoptera, among them Amblycorypha floriclana carinata R. & 

 H., which has never before been reported from the State of New York; 



