June, I9I2-] Proceedings of the Society. 137 



first number to contain miscellaneous short notes. Only two such notes were 

 to appear in this number and Mr. Barber urged the members to present others 

 for future numbers. It was suggested that members not attending the meet- 

 ings might furnish such notes and suggested that a statement of the fact that 

 they were desired be inserted under this heading in the Journal. 



Mr. Schaeft'er reported that Professor J. B. Smith was presenting a loose- 

 leaf copy of the List of N. J. Insects so that the society might bind it as 

 desired and requested suggestions as to binding. After some discussion it was 

 moved and carried that a committee be appointed to arrange for the binding 

 of the List in such a manner as it was thought desirable and to solicit members 

 to take charge of the various orders and record new captures. The president 

 appointed on this committee Messrs. Engelhardt, Schaeffcr, Osburn, G. W. J. 

 Angell and Southwick. An additional copy of the List was presented to the 

 society by Mr. Dow. 



Mr. Groth exhibited some separates of the late Dr. Otto Seifert's papers 

 some of which had been published in connection with his collection. Mrs. 

 Seifert had presented these as well as some of Dr. Seifert's unpublished manu- 

 scripts which the society might publish if it so desired. 



Mr. Pollard exhibited a case of rare exotic Saturnians and made some 

 interesting remarks concerning the various species represented. He stated 

 that Africa did not contain as many species of this group as some other 

 regions of the world, but that the species and varieties found there were very 

 interesting. 



Mr. Grossbeck exhibited a variety of Utetheisa bella L. in which the pink 

 had been replaced by a bright yellow and said that the specimen had been 

 captured in the field and picked out of 300 specimens which he had taken in an 

 hour near Paterson, N. J. He had been attracted to that particular spot by the 

 larvse crawling along the railroad track. Following these to their origin he 

 found that they came from a sand hole surrounded on the other three sides by 

 the walls of the pit and that growing in the bottom of the pit was an abun- 

 dance of Crotalaria, the food plant of the larva. The caterpillars which had 

 stripped the plants were migrating in search of food, but were unable to cross 

 the rails. Thousands of larvae were seen to be thus migrating. 



Mr. Engelhardt exhibited an albino variety of Utetheisa bella L., several 

 specimens of which he had taken at Rockaway Beach. He spoke also of the 

 variety from Cuba, with the fore wings bright red, and of Utetheisa ornatrix 

 L. which had been observed to vary considerably in Porto Rico, and suggested 

 that an investigation of these insects in Jamaica by Mr. Grossbeck on his 

 anticipated trip to that island, would be of much interest. 



Mr. Davis showed 2 specimens of Cicindela limbalis Klug taken in the 

 Ramapo Mts. in May, and stated that this made 5 or 6 specimens which had 

 been taken locally. Mr. Harris mentioned the fact that Mr. John Sherman 

 had taken several specimens of patruela Dej. and limbalis Klug under stones 

 on an elevation near the Hudson River, at Peekskill, N. Y. 



Mr. Wheat stated that recently he had examined wood along the shore at 



