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described from Texas and has not yet been found at any intermediate locality. 



Dr. Bequaert suggested that it might possibly prove to have been intro- 

 duced with the tree. 



Mr. Sherman had spent the summer at Peaks Island, near Portland, Me., 

 making an auto excursion to Eastport, where he camped for four days at Lake 

 Meddybemps with forest all around it. The peat bog behind the forest yields 

 a supply of surgical sphagnum and contains puddles in which live desirable 

 species of Hydroporus. Later in the summer Mr. Sherman had visited Mr. 

 Henshaw, who grows younger every year, he said, and Mr. Fall, at Tyngsboro, 

 and then camped on August 9, at Hermit Lake, in the White Mountains where 

 Scutoptents angustits again rewarded his search. 



Mr. Nicolay reported his capture of Buprestis Salisbury ensis at Malaga, 

 N. J., Anthophllax viridis and Centrodera decolorata in the Pocono Moun- 

 tains, Pa., Chrysobothris blanchardi at Kingston, R. I., and Cychrus canadensis 

 in the Shawangunk Mountains, N. Y. 



He spoke also of the spreading of Plagiodera versicolora, which has be- 

 come a pest about Orange and Maplewood, N. J. 



Mr. Weiss said he had been working with Mr. Dickerson on insects affect- 

 ing evening primrose and upon fungus insects of which a list of about 100 

 species was now ready. 



Dr. Lutz spoke briefly of his expedition to Colorado, where most of his 

 collecting had been done at elevation running from 7,000 to 13,500 feet. He 

 had started at the southern border 3,500 ft. elevation, but had soon reached 

 greater elevations, so that Colorado collecting began in that respect where Mt. 

 Washington left off. 



Mr. Mutchler reported the important gifts received by the Museum of the 

 late Charles Palm's collection of Coleoptera and of the Cerambychidae and 

 Scarabasidse of Geo. W. J. Angell's collection. 



Mr. Neilsen reported local work in Westchester County, N. Y. 



Mr. Davis agreed with Messrs. Watson, Bell and Hall that butterflies had 

 been scarce; he reported Callidryas eubule on Staten Island September 13, 

 and said that for many years that species had appeared there about the middle 

 of September. He also read a paper on Katydids (which will be published in 

 the Journal) showing their possible extinction on Staten Island, though still 

 plentiful on Long Island. 



This subject and its cause were discussed by Dr. Lutz, who thought it 

 might result from parasites unduly multiplied and by Miss Brace and Dr. 

 Marchand, who were present as visitors. The latter spoke of the great 

 abundance of Microcentrum at Princeton, N. J., in the fall of 19 17. 



Meeting of October 21. 



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

 8:00 P.M., October 21, 1919, in the American Museum of Natural History, 

 Vice-president John D. Sherman, Jr., in the chair, with seventeen members 

 present. 



