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Meeting of October 7. 



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

 October 7, iqiq, in the American Museum of Natural History, President L. B. 

 Woodruff in the chair, with nineteen members and several visitors present. 



Dr. Lutz announced the death, on September 12, of Dr. E. G. Love, a 

 former officer of the Society and long its delegate to the Scientific Alliance. 

 The Secretary was instructed to enter this minute expressing the regret of the 

 Society and to convey the same by mail to his family. 



Greetings were received from W. J. Chamberlin and Raymond C. Osburn. 



Mr. Davis referred to the death in an aeroplane accident of the entomolo- 

 gist Emerson Liscum Diven, who made a survey of cotton cultures by aeroplane 

 from Brownsville to El Paso, Texas. 



The President called for reports of summer collecting — 



Mr. Hall had visited Mt. Washington, with poor success on account of 

 cold and wind. 



Mr. Comstock had visited New Orleans, with small opportunities which 

 had, however, yielded some interesting Lepidoptera. 



Mr. Watson made a report upon the season's collecting locally, which will 

 be printed elsewhere. 



Mr. Bell had spent the last two weeks of July in northern Vermont, col- 

 lecting Lepidoptera. 



Mr. Shoemaker had spent July 5 to July 12 in the Catskill Mountains de- 

 voting his energy in part to sugaring, with good results in Lepidoptera and 

 with a dozen Cychrus viduus also caught at sugar. September 13 to Septem- 

 ber 23 had been spent about Washington, D. C. Cicindela splendida and var. 

 transversa was found near Mt. Vernon on a path through the woods. Several 

 rare Carabids were found at Black Pond, up the river, including Cychrus 

 ridingsi and shocmakeri. 



Mr. Burns had spent a week at Ithaca, four days at Wading River, L. I., 

 and many days on Staten Island. Hippopsis lemniscata was thereby added to 

 Staten Island List. He showed also a collection of Asilidae. 



Dr. Bequaert exhibited Ceraturgus aurulentus Fab. type locality of which 

 was New York, though until ten years ago, when C. W. Johnson found it 

 in New Jersey, it was regarded as a lost species. Dr. Bequaert's specimen was 

 found in Van Cortlandt Park and in Mr. Burns's box was another from 

 Singac, N. J. He also exhibited Promachus rufipes, one of the largest robber 

 flies, P. fitchi and Bombylius incanus, the latter from Blue Hills, where with 

 Prof. Wheeler he had found very good collecting. The vicinity of Boston 

 appealed strongly to him and the Arnold Arboretum was specially fine for 

 insects. 



Mr. Barber reported poor results at Great Piece Meadow and Lakehurst, 

 N. J., and at Falls City, Nebraska, where he had spent two months. 



Mr. Olsen exhibited Eutcttix osborni Ball, identified by Dr. Ball, found 

 September 4 on Tamarisk growing in Museum grounds. This species was 



