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rare dragonfly, Neurocordulia obsoleta Say, and the little cricket Myrmecophila 

 pergandei, which latter species, he thought, ought to be found in New Jersey, 

 if looked for in its habitat — ant's nests. Attention was called to the average 

 larger size in a series of Carabus limbatus Say from Washington as compared 

 with a series of the same species from -the mountains of southern Georgia. 



As an instance of the predicament in which a collector is apt to find him- 

 self, Mr. Davis cited his experience in the capture of a beetle Calligrapha 

 amelia Knab. The beetle was observed in a difficult position for capture 

 among the twigs of a bush of ninebark, its food plant. But what rendered 

 proceedings still more difficult was the discovery of a copper head lying 

 coiled below. Mr. Davis had the satisfaction of exhibiting both beetle and 

 snake. 



Mr. Pollard spoke on the occurrence of Chlorippe celtis Bdv. & Lee, at 

 Washington where at times the butterfly is exceedingly abundant. 



Mr. Davis exhibited 24 specimens of insects that he had found attending 

 the glands on the upper side of the leaves of Populus grandidentata and called 

 attention to two of them, a bee of the family Halictidae and a Crabro wasp, 

 which he had observed flying from leaf to leaf and visiting many different 

 glands. It was pointed out that the insects were probably not guided by color 

 in this instance, as they would have been in visiting flowers. 



Mr. Schaeffer showed a pair of Scarabaeid beetles, Fruhstorferia sexmacu 

 lata, from Tonkin, China, calling attention to the peculiarly elongated mandi- 

 bles of the male. 



Society adjourned. 



G. P. Engelhardt, 



Secretary pro tern. 



Meeting of March 21, 191 1. 



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

 the American Museum of Natural History, March 21, 19 n, at 8.15 P. M. 

 President Leng in the chair with six visitors and nineteen members present. 



Minutes of February 21 and March 7 meetings read and approved. 



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

 cations : 



Zeitschrift fur Wissensch. Insektenbiologie, Vol. VII, No. i. 



Mitteilungen Naturhist. Mus. Hamburg., Vol. XXVII. 



Coleopterorum Catalogus, Part 2y. 



Deutsche Entomol. Zeitschrift, 191 1, No. i. 



Bull, del lab. di Zoologia generale e agraria. Vol. IV. 



The Canadian Entomologist, Vol. XLIII, No. 2. 



Memorias del Instituto Oswaldo Cruz., II, No. 2. 



Revue Russe d'Entomologie, Vol. X, No. 3. 



Zoological Record for 1909, Insects, Vol. XLVI. 



He also reported that he had had bound the N. J. List of Insects in four 



