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(Satynis) alope was abundant at Sugar Hill in the form nephelc only. 

 Argynnis atliDitis was very common. A. aphrodite, represented by a small 

 dark form was also common at Sugar Hill. A. cybele was however rare. 

 Poiitia (Pieris) napi form oleracea was also abundant. 



Mr. Hall's remarks were discussed by Messrs. Comstock, Forbes, Engel- 

 hardt. Sherman and Dr. Osburn. Mr. Comstock said that Eiigonia J -album 

 feeds on white birch (Bcfula popiiJifolia) and quoted also Mr. Watson's 

 records at Sloatsburg, N. Y., June 7 and at Alpine, N. J., June 10, where the 

 larvse were abundant, almost every tree having a colony. Mr. Engelhardt 

 mentioned apple as another food plant and suggested that it might be a 

 general feeder. Mr. Comstock thought there might be some error, as in his 

 experience it was confined to white birch. It was also said that P. fauiius 

 feeds on willow, and P. progiie on currant. The small dark forms of Argyn- 

 nis mentioned by Mr. Hall were stated to be repeated on the coast of Maine 

 and to be probably a result of cold and moisture. 



Mr. Leng read a paper on "Coleoptera collected in Iceland by L. P. 

 Gratacap," in which the island was described and the relation of its insects 

 to those of other northern regions discussed. The beetles collected by Mr. 

 Gratacap, comprising nearly all the ground beetles known to occur in Iceland, 

 were exhibited. 



Mr. G. W. J. Angell exhibited specimens of Carabiis cIiamisso)iis from 

 Alaska, the type locality, and from the White Mountains, Labrador and 

 Greenland, the last having received the varietal name grocnlandicits. and 

 remarked that this variety was smaller and more oval than the others, and 

 that it was omitted in the list of Greenland species prepared by J. C. Nielsen 

 for part 2 of the insects of the Denmark Expedition. 



Dr. Lutz exhibited a specimen of the geometer Brephos infans caught 

 at Ramsey, N. J., on March 31, and remarked that it should be included in 

 the New Jersey list. 



A discussion of the distribution and habits of this insect was held by 

 Messrs. Comstock, Forbes, Bischoff, Hall, Sleight, Engelhardt and Pollard and 

 it appeared that it occurred at Worcester, Mass., Hemlock Falls, N. J., 

 Jamesburg, N. J., Wayandanch, L. I., on Staten Island and at Sloatsburg, 

 N. Y., always in places where its food plant, white birch, was abundant and 

 very early in the season ; the dates being from March 29 to April 30. Often 

 it flies high among the tree tops, but at times close to the grovtnd according 

 to weather conditions. Subsequently Mr. Comstock supplied exact records 

 as follows : 



Brephos infans, Hemlock Falls, N. J., April 6, 1902, saw several and 

 caught one flying high (Watson and Comstock) ; Hemlock Falls, N. J., April 

 20, 1902, saw four (Watson and Comstock) ; Hemlock Falls, N. J., March 29, 

 1903, sow one (Comstock) ; Jamesburg, N. J., April 2^,, 1905, caught one 

 (Watson) ; Sloatsburg, N. Y., April 23, 1905, caught one (J. H. Cook) ; 

 Sloatsburg, N. Y., April 30, 1905, saw two (C. H. Sunderland). 



Psychoinorplia epimenis, Sloatsburg, N. Y., April 30, 1905, common (C. 

 H. Sunderland). 



