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Mr. Dickerson exhibited and presented to the local collection specimens 

 of Tragidion coquits collected in Cumberland Co., N. J., in September, on 

 the flowers of immortelles or straw flowers, growing near a wood in which 

 pine and deciduous trees occurred. 



Dr. Osburn called attention to an article in the Ohio Naturalist in 

 which L. B. Walton describes Symbiotes ditryi and gives a discussion of its 

 position and habits. The beetles were found under slightly decayed hard- 

 wood log, which was partly covered with one of the lower forms of fungi. 

 The author points out that ulkei and minor have been erroneously referred 

 to Symbiotes, being really referable to Rhymbus. 



Dr. Osburn also presented to the library papers on dragon flies, which 

 were duplicated in his own library and suggested that all the members might 

 aid the library by doing likewise. 



Meeting of M.\rch 19, 1912. 



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

 March 19, 1912, in the American Museum of Natural History, at 8.15 P. M., 

 President Dr. Raymond C. Osburn in the chair, with 17 members present. 



The field committee reported that the three principal excursions of 1912 

 would be Decoration Day to Lakehurst, July 4 to Newfoundland, and Labor 

 Day to Yaphank, and that probably additional shorter trips could be arranged 

 on suggestion by any member having a good place in mind, and that such 

 could be announced through the Bulletin. 



Mr. Grossbeck announced the death on March 12 of Prof. John B. Smith, 

 and offered the following preamble and resolution, which on motion of Mr. 

 Angell was unanimously adopted : 



Where.xs the New York Entomological Society has learned with deep 

 sorrow of the death of Professor John B. Smith, Sc.D., state entomologist 

 of New Jersey, professor of entomology in Rutgers College, and correspond- 

 ing member of the Society, Therefore be it 



Resolved that the regret of the members of the Society for the great loss 

 sustained by them and the science of entomology, in the untimely death of a 

 friend and fellow worker, be expressed in this form and entered on the 

 minutes of its meetings and that a copy of this resolution be sent to his 

 family. 



Mr. Engelhardt under the title " Notes on Lepidoptera collected in 

 Florida in November " described his four weeks journey in Florida last 

 November, during which he visited Jacksonville, St. Augustine, Anastasia 

 Island, Daytona. Palm Beach, Miami, Knights Key, Key West, Tampa, Ocala, 

 Leesburg, Sanford, Enterprise, Palatka, returning to Jacksonville by the St. 

 Johns River, spending about two days in each place and five in Miami, where 

 he was able to spend some time on Biscayne Bay, and to ascend the Miami 

 River to the edge of the Everglades. Mr. Engelhardt spoke of the long leaf 

 pine, cypress, Spanish moss and palmetto becoming conspicuous features as 

 soon as the Savannah River was reached on the way south, and of the live 



