344 Journal New York Entomological Society. t VoL xxvn. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE NEW YORK ENTOMO- 

 LOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Meeting of May 20. 



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

 8:15 P.M., on May 20, 1919, in the American Museum of Natural History, 

 Mr. Harry G. Barber in the chair, with sixteen members and two visitors 

 present. 



The Librarian reported accessions and valuable donations from Mrs. Edw. 

 D. Harris, which latter the Secretary was instructed to gratefully acknowledge. 



The Treasurer reported a donation of $25 from Mr. Howard Notman, 

 which he had acknowledged for the Society. 



Dr. Bequaert, for the Field Committee, reported further on the Decoration 

 Day excursion to Great Piece Meadow. 



Letters were read from Pres. L. B. Woodruff and from Mr. R. P. Dow. 



Mr. Burns exhibited a new lining for insect boxes called " Universal 

 Insulite " made by the Fireproof Products Co., 257 East 133d St., New York, 

 for building purposes. It is a wood pulp preparation, soft enough to take the 

 pin easily and so elastic that no permanent hole is made by the pin. No 

 corrosion of the pin seemed liable to occur. The price, four cents per square 

 foot, was an added advantage. 



Mr. Engelhardt spoke of bolsa wood as another substitute for cork linings, 

 that was very satisfactory but unfortunately not cheap. 



Mr. Schaeffer exhibited a box of Chr^somelidre and spoke at length of 

 their taxonomy and synonymy. As his remarks will be printed later in full, 

 they are not reported here except as to the local record for Agelastica alni L. 

 which had been taken by Mr. Engelhardt on his office window in Brooklyn ; 

 and the raising by the same member of the longhorn Saperda liomi Joutel, 

 from willow sent to him by Tom Spalding, from Provo, Utah, which greatly 

 extended the range previously recorded, viz : No. Cal., Wash. 



Mr. Shoemaker exhibited a large number of Coleoptera he had found 

 near Washington, D. C, including Cicindela unipunctata, July 12, near Mt. 

 Vernon, Va., the second specimen recorded from vicinity of D. C, Euphoria 

 herbacea, found flying rapidly near Great Falls, Lebia, Amara, Oberea flavipes 

 and ritficollis, Disonycha discoidea and a great copperhead snake, 2 2 Y\" long, 

 from Great Falls, Va., July 13, 1918, with which he had personal experience. 



Mr. Olsen exhibited and commented on some of the Hemiptera Mr. Shoe- 

 maker had found. 



Dr. Bequaert exhibited some beetles from nests of the ant Formica 

 exsectoides, including Megastilicus formicaritts, Hetcerius brunnipennis, two 

 species of Pselaphidae, etc., from Greenwood Lake, N. J. 



