42 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. xvii. 



Honey Ants with a Revision of the American Myrmecocysti, by W. M. Wheeler. 



Vestigial Instincts in Insects and Other Animals, by W. M. Wheeler. 



The Ants of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, by W. M. Wheeler. 



The Ants of Casco Bay, Maine, with Observations on Two Races of Formica 

 sangninea Latr., by W. M. Wheeler. 



Berliner Ent. Zeitschr., LII, Nos. 3 and 4; LIII, No. i. 



Zeitschr. f. Wiss. Ins. Biol., Ill, Nos. 1-7 ; IV, Nos. 4-7. 



Insect World, XII, Nos. 4-6. 



Canadian Ent., XL, Nos. 6-10. 



Wiener Ent. Zeitg., XXVII, Nos. 6-8. 



Deutsche Ent. Zeitschr., 1908, Nos. 3 and 4. 



Horae Soc. Ross. XXXVIII, No. 3. 



Proc. Am. Acad. Arts and Sci., XLIII, Nos. 18-22. 



Verhandl. d. K. K. Zool. Bot. Gesel. Wien, LVIII, Nos. 4 and 5. 



Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc, XLVII, No. 188. 



Bull, de la Soc. Ent. d' Egypt, 1908, No. I. 



Bull. Buffalo Soc. Nat. Hist., IX, No. i. 



Chicago Acad. Sci. Special Publ., No. 2, 1908. 



Bull, de Lab. de Zool. Gen. Agraria, Vol. II. 



Revue Russe d' Entomologie, VII, Nos. i, 2 and 3. 



Bericht iiber d. Zool. Mus. Berlin, 1908. 



Bull, della Soc. Ent. Italiana, XXXVIII, Nos. 3 and 4. 



Stett. Ent. Zeitg., LXIX, No. 12. 



Brooklyn Inst. Mus. Sci. Bull., I, No. 14. 



Mr. Davis proposed as active members of the society : Roy W. Miner, Ameri- 

 can Museum of Natural History ; Charles L. Pollard, New Brighton, N. Y. ; Charles 

 E. Sleight, Paterson, N. J. ; for Prof. Wheeler Mr. Davis also proposed Dr. Alex. 

 Petrunkewitch, Short Hills, N. J. 



On motion of Mr. Schaeffer the by-laws were suspended and the secretary em- 

 powered to cast a single ballot for the election of the proposed members. 



Mr. Davis spoke of the trip of Alanson Skinner to the Hudson Bay Wilds, and 

 read an account of the expedition from the New York Tribune of Sept. 14. Mr. 

 Skinner brought back with him a number of insects, mostly Coleoptera collected at 

 James Bay, and presented to Mr. Davis. These were exhibited. Among the speci- 

 mens shown were Cicmdela hyberborea, Cicindela 12-gnttata, Carabus vtaander, 

 Bembidinvi carmula, Silpha lapponica, Hippoda7nia falcigera, Coccitiella transverso- 

 giUtata, Ade/ocera brevicornis, Criocephahis agrestis, Neoclytus tnu}'icaticlus, Acnicwps 

 pfoteus, Tetropiwn cinnomopterum, Corymbites appressus and Adoxus Vitus. Such 

 widely distributed species as Aphodius fimetarius, Monohat/unus scutellatus and Dia- 

 brotica 12-punctata were also represented in the collections. 



The president called upon all of those present to give an account of their sum- 

 mer's collecting experience. 



Mr. Southwick spoke of his arduous work in fighting insects in Central Park 

 during the past summer. 



Dr. Dow spoke concerning the excellency of the collecting at Clairmont, New 

 Hampshire. 



Dr. Zabriskie told of his trip through the Great Lakes where his collecting was 

 incidental. 



