PROCEEDINGS OF THE NEW YORK ENTO- 

 MOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Meeting of Tuesday, May i8, 1909. 



Held at the American Museum of Natural History, President C. W. 

 Leng in the chair, with eighteen members and two visitors present. 



The librarian, Mr. Schaeffer, announced the receipt of the following 

 exchanges : 



Science Bulletin, I, No. 15, Mus. Brooklyn Inst. 



Canadian Entomol., XLI, No. 5. 



Berlin Entomol. Zeitschrift, Vol. 53, Nos. 3 and 4. 



Mr. Davis, of the Field Committee, reported on the arrangements for the 

 outing at Lakehurst, N. J., on the Fourth of July. Tents and cooking utensils 

 had been secured through the kindness of Mr. Sleight, and arrangements had 

 been made with a neighboring family to do most of the cooking. Although 

 the outing was planned for three days, those who wished might make arrange- 

 ments to stay longer. 



Mr. Dow, of the Field Committee, announced the partial arrangement for 

 a Decoration Day trip to Greenwood Lake. Notice would be sent to members 

 by postal card. 



On motion of the secretary the meetings of June were dispensed with. 



Mr. Schaeffer exhibited some new and interesting species of Buprestidse 

 mostly from Brownsville, Texas, and from Arizona, and spoke concerning some 

 of the important characters and habits of the forms. 



Mr. Davis exhibited a turtle showing several large swellings on the 

 neck in which were the developing larvae of bot-flies. 



Mr. Barber stated that he had bred some of these flies from a turtle 

 similarly affected at Cold Spring Harbor, L. I., in 1902. 



Mr. John Angell exhibited a specimen of Calosoma calidum which had a 

 bright green bordering stripe on the margin of the elytra. 



Prof. J. B. Smith spoke of the early appearance of the elm-leaf beetles 

 in such numbers, in certain places, as to indicate a repetition of their de- 

 structiveness of last season. These early beetles were just out of hiberna- 

 tion, and on a small elm near the New Jersey Experiment Station he had 

 estimated there were eight thousand specimens. 



Mr. Engelhardt spoke of collecting a quantity of Callidium janthinum in 

 the window of a store on Fulton Street where rustic wood furniture was for 

 sale. 



Mr. Roberts exhibited his collection of Dytiscidse, explained the structural 

 characters used in differentiating the species, and mentioned the synonymy of 

 certain forms. 



Mr. Comstock spoke on the systematic work he had been carrying on at 



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