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Sclicrnicus piihenihis Lee, Acalles carinatus Lee, Hiiiiatiitiii crrans Lee, 

 Micropeplus cribratus Lee. 



Prof. Smith had also found a new beetle, Exochomus 4-punctulatus, which 

 was captured in a nursery on imported coniferous trees. 



Mr. Olsen exhibited a box of Hemiptera taken during the summer on 

 Long Island and called attention to several specimens of Tetyra bipunctata 

 taken at Bay Shore, L. L Though fairly common at Lakehurst on pines it has 

 never before been reported from Long Island. 



Mr. Davis reported that Mr. Silas C. Wheat had also taken this species 

 during the summer on .^ugust 1 1 at Pine Lawn, Long Island. The young 

 were on the green pine, ;ones. 



Mr. Dickerson. eV ■ ited a live praying mantis which he had obtained in 

 a nursery near the ac<v Jersey Experiment Station. Quite a few other speci- 

 mens were seen. The species had probably been introduced upon nursery 

 stock. 



Mr. Dickerson spoke of the "history of the introduction of this species 

 from Asia and the efforts which had been made to acclimatize it in the 

 United States. Mr. Philip Laurent had found a few at Germantown, Pa., in 

 1898. It has failed to get a permanent foothold. Mr. Lutz showed the 

 egg cases of this species. 



Mr. Sleight showed a specimen of Catocala herodias the larva of which 

 was collected at Lakehurst on Quercus nana (scrub oak). May 24. The 

 moth emerged from the cocoon on July 6. 



Mr. Lutz exhibited a jar partly filled with earth in which could plainly 

 be seen the furrows made by the cricket's ovipositor and the eggs at the 

 bottom of each. 

 Society adjourned. 



H. G. Barber, 



Secretary. 



