136 Journal New York Entomological Society. I^'"'- -^'^• 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE NEW YORK ENTOMOLOG- 

 ICAL SOCIETY. 



Meeting of Feisruaky 7, 191 1. 



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

 the American Museum of Natural History, February 7, 191 1, at 8.15 P. M., 

 with President Leng in the chair and seventeen members present. 



The minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved. 



Mr. Schaeffer, the librarian, reported the receipt of the following publica- 

 tions : 



Canadian Entomologist, Vol. XLIII, No. i. 



Zeitschrift fur Wissensch. Insektenbiologie, Vol. VI, Nos. 11, 12, 



Coleopterorum Catalogus, Pts. 24, 25, 26. 



Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, 19 10, Nos. 3, 4. 



Wiener Entomol. Zeitunj, Vol. XXIX, Nos. 9, 10. 



Bull, de la Societe Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscow, Vol. XXIII. 



Entomologisk Tidskrift, 1910, Nos. 1-4. 



New South American Parasitic Hymenoptera. J. C. Crawford. 



New Species of Reared Ichneumon-flies. H. L. Viereck. 



On Some Hymenopterous Insects from the Island of Formosa. S. A. 

 Rohwer. 



The curator, Dr. Lutz, reported that the Seifert collection had been 

 acquired and that the boxes were arranged temporarily in the curator's room 

 until suitable cases could be secured. 



Dr. Southwick commented on the local collection of plants which he was 

 presenting to the society, and stated that genus covers like the one exhibited 

 were being installed and that later the specimens would be placed in them. 

 In the local flora within 50 miles of N. Y. City 154 orders, 800 genera, and 

 some 2,300 species are represented. Originally it was planned to arrange the 

 specimens according to the insects infesting them, but it had been decided to 

 arrange the collection as a botanical one. Attached to the cover of each 

 plant there will be a list of the insect species infesting that particular plant 

 and each sheet will be nvimbered and indexed. 



Mr. Leng announced that the members at work on the local collection of 

 Coleoptera would study the Scarabseidse for the next few weeks. 



Dr. Osburn presented his own photograph for the Society's collection and 

 virged the members to present theirs. He also exhibited a sample of a method 

 of binding pamphlets. 



Mr. Pollard, chairman of the dinner committee, announced that 30 

 acceptances had been received. It was moved and carried that $2.20 be appro- 

 priated from the treasury to defray half of the expenses of printing and send- 

 ing out the announcements of the dinner. 



Mr. Schaeffer, for the publication committee, stated that the March 

 number of the Journal had been sent to the printer and that this would be the 



