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



Mr. Davis, of the Field Committee, reported concerning the very suc- 

 cessful Fourth of July meeting at Lakehurst, which was attended by eighteen 

 members. 



Mr. Schaeffer explained the delay of the September issue of the Journal. 



Mr. Comstock proposed as an active member Mary R. Robinson, 75 J^ 

 Broad Street, Newark, N. J. Mr. Lutz proposed Mr. Thos. Hallinan, Paterson, 

 N. J., and Mr. Chester O. Hyde, 127 E. 93d St., New York City. 



On a motion of Mr. Harris the by-laws were suspended and the secre- 

 tary cast a single ballot for the election to active membership of the three 

 proposed members. 



Dr. Zabriskie presented the following : " Writ en notice, in accordance 

 with Article XIX. of the by-laws, is hereby given f a motion to be pre- 

 sented at the next regular meeting, to amend f laws by adding to 

 Article IV, after the word Librarian, the following words, 'a curator,' and 

 by adding after Article IX the following : Article IX* Curator — " It shall be 

 the duty of the curator to receive and take charge of all entomological speci- 

 mens in the custody of the society and to perform such other duties as may 

 be determined by the society." 



The president called upon different members to give an account of their 

 summer's collecting experiences. 



Mr. Davis stated that he had visited so many places and found so 

 many interesting things that it was difficult for him to select just what to say 

 first, but he exhibited a live specimen of an interesting beetle, Xyloryctes 

 satyrus, which he had bred from a grub taken in northern Georgia. He pointed 

 out that the striation of the elytra seemed to be peculiar. He also exhibited 

 some galls of Andricus lubricola taken at Lakehurst, N. J., October 3, occur- 

 ring on post-oak. They are considered to be rare. 



Mr. Comstock gave an account of a visit which he made to the Boston 

 Society of Natural History and the Cambridge Museum of Comparative 

 Zoology during the past summer. He remarked that the Harris Collection was 

 in good condition in spite of the fact that it had been stored part of the time. 

 He referred to a number of synonyms which he noticed in the type material 

 of Lycsenidae in both museums. 



Mr. Pollard exhibited a dwarf specimen of a Mexican moth, Rothschildia 

 jorulla, which he had bred from the egg. The dwarfing, Mr. Pollard thought, 

 might be due to a difference in food or in climatic condition. 



Mr. Joutel stated that, in his experience in breeding these Bombycine 

 moths, there was no dwarfing due to change of food or climate. 



Mr. Schaeffer exhibited some interesting Coleoptera among which were 

 Alaus patricius a West Indian species, Calosoma splendidmn, which Mr. Angell 

 had obtained from Mr. Brownell, collected in Key West, Florida, and 

 Cicindela 6-guttata form harrisii, a variety with thorax and base of elytra 

 coppery. 



Mr. Leng stated that in looking over some material in the collection of 

 Mr. Bischoff he had found the following species of Coleoptera new to the 

 New Jersey list of insects : 



