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Leconte from the Nakutshi Valley, which is traversed by the Tallulah River. 

 Diligent search in the neighborhood of Clayton, Ga., carried on for two 

 seasons by four collectors failed to disclose its presence there. The locality 

 searched is about twenty miles from the original locality, but on Stekoa 

 Creek instead of Tallulah River. The only specimen obtained during the two 

 years was taken by a friend at Burton, Ga., which is again on the Tallulah 

 River. While the evidence is negative and incomplete, it surely points to the 

 distribution of the species being locally confined to the valley of the Tallulah. 



Mr. Wm. T. Davis showed specimens of the grashopper Dendrotettix 

 quercus Riley, and stated that the insect had defoliated many oak trees in 

 the vicinity of Ridgway, N. J., in 1910 and 191 1. Specimens had also been 

 collected near Lakewood and Lakehurst, N. J., but in less numbers. Photo- 

 graphs of large white oaks entirely stripped of their leaves were shown and 

 it was pointed out that if the next few years are favorable to the species, 

 this grasshopper introduced from the southwest may become a serious pest 

 in New Jersey. 



Mr. Shoemaker stated that he had been collecting in the vicinity of 

 Washington late in June and early July and again in September. He had 

 obtained some 2,500 beetles on the first trip and 450 the last time. Several 

 interesting forms were taken and some of these exhibited. 



Mr. Sleight reported the capture of Calosoma sycophan a at Ramsey, N. J. 



Mr. Pollard reported Catocala herodias Strck., at Lakehurst on July 4. 



The latter species has also been taken by Mr. Bucholz and Mr. Davis and 

 it was noted that when found at sugar it did not fly off in an excited manner 

 as the other species, but rested low on the trunk and moved off with a slow 

 flight through the low shrubbery. This habit he thought might account for 

 its apparent rarity. He also reported the capture of a variety of Limenltis 

 astyana.r at Pine Island, N. Y., in June when collecting there in company with 

 Mr. Angell. 



Mr. John Angell said that at Pine Island in an area covered with water 

 he had collected a number of specimens of Carabus limbatus from stumps and 

 noted that they were more reddish in color and coarser in punctuation than 

 those usually found. 



Mr. Barber had collected during August at Herndon, Va., near Washing- 

 ton, D. C. His material was not yet arranged for exhibition. 



Mr. Engelhardt stated that he had collected several times during the 

 season at Vaphank, L. I., and has made some interesting captures including 

 Cychrns elevatiis. He had taken as many as sixteen of these in ten minutes 

 while looking at base of ash trees for Xyloryctes satyrus Fabr. In digging 

 in the borings of the latter he had found two Cychrns in one tree and three 

 in another. He considered these captures interesting in view of the fact 

 that the locality was not one which would be considered a Cychrns country. 

 He also reported Carabus sylvosns from the same locality at sugar. 



Dr. Southwick reported on the progress of the botanical collection of 

 food plants of insects and said he had added many additional notes. 



