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Rockaway Park, Jamaica Bay, N. Y., for Teredo specimens. In one stick 

 which was washed ashore he found, on cutting- it open, Dipterous pupa cases 

 and flies in the Teredo burrows, from which the flies were unable to escape. 

 The species was not determined but evidently the fly had laid eggs in the 

 burrow so that the maggots might feed on the remains of the mollusk. 



Mr. Barber reported the capture of two Hemiptera new to the New Jersey 

 list — Acantholoma denticulata Stal by Dr. Lutz, at Schooleys Mts., near 

 Hackettstown, N. J., and Banasa sordida V'hl. by Mr. Davis in Cape May 

 Co., N. J. 



Society adjourned. 



E. L. DiCKERSON, 



Secre ary. 



Meeting of February 21, 191 1. 



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

 the American Museum of Natural History, February 21, 191 1, at 8.15 P. M. 

 with President Leng in the chair and twenty-three members present. 



The minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved. 



Mr. Schaeffer reported that the committee appointed to arrange for the 

 binding of the List of Insects of New Jersey had decided to divide it into 

 several volumes and that an introduction and index would be provided for 

 each of the interleaved volumes by Professor J. B. Smith. 



Mr. Schaeffer also stated that the Bureau of the International Catalogue 

 of Scientific Literature had requested that the Journal be sent to them 

 regularly and he moved that such a copy be sent. Motion carried. 



L'nder scientific discussion, Mr. Henry Bird gave an interesting account 

 of " New York City's Newest Moth, Papaipema uioeseri Bird." This recently 

 described species was found in the Adirondack region and western New York 

 and also breeding in a glade on Staten Island. The first imago was obtained 

 by a Buffalo, N. Y., collector. The larva was found breeding in a food plant 

 near that of Papaipema iinpecuuiosa Grt. and as it \'ery closely resembled the 

 larva of the latter it was at first mistaken for it. Later studies, however, 

 proved it to be distinct. In Hampson's Catalogue in his table of Papaipema 

 this species is placed near delineata. Mr. Bird also commented on the splendid 

 work Hampson was doing in this catalogue. 



Mr. Barljer discussed the "Resurrection of Thyan'a calceata Say from 

 Synonymy." This species he said had been considered synonymous with 

 Tliyanta custator Fab., but a diil'erence was first noted in the number of 

 chromosomes of the two species by Professor E. B. Wilson, of Columbia 

 University. Mr. Barber had secured as large a series as possible of the two 

 forms, and a careful examination showed that they differed in several char- 

 acters and were evidently distinct species. Moreover calceata seemed to be 

 an eastern and more of a highland form while custator occurred in the west 

 and extended south and west. 



Dr. Osburn spoke on the distribution of Syrphids. common to North 



