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they found it necessary to cut their way through the thick tangled vines by means of 

 the knife. Ticks, which are in places abundant, fleas, jiggers, a small troublesome 

 fly, and frequently mosquitoes were very annoying. Most of the collecting was done 

 at Esperanza Ranch, a place some five miles from Brownsville and the same distance 

 from the river, containing some fine densely wooded localities. Before settling at the 

 ranch they travelled around on horseback collecting here and there. In May a two 

 weeks' trip was made to the coast and the islands, taking in the Yucca ridges which 

 are situated between Brownsville and the coast. Although he visited the islands 

 Brazas de Santiago and Padre he found nothing not already recorded by Wickham 

 and Townsend. 



Coleoptera is the best represented order in the district of Brownsville and with 

 the addition of this material the number of species will be increased to nearly 800. 

 He found that next to the Coleoptera, the Hemiptera were most abundant in individ- 

 uals but not in species. Hymenoptera were more abundant than Diptera. Odonata 

 were poorly represented. Adult stages of Orthoptera were scarce owing probably to 

 the great abundance of birds and spiders. To this cause also was probably due the 

 scarcity of caterpillars and other soft-bodied insects. At a rough guess Mr. Schaeffer 

 estimates that as a result of his three months' collecting, he has brought home between 

 700 and 800 species of Coleoptera, of which 80 are new to our list and about one 

 half of the 80 are new species. 



Mr. Barber presented a few remarks on Mr. Bueno's " List of the Pentatomidse 

 within Fifty Miles of New York City " which was published in the last number of the 

 N. Y. Journal. Among other things he stated that such a fragmentary list had very 

 little value unaccompanied by any remarks for identification of the species. Prof. 

 J. B. Smith in his New Jersey list mentions over twice as many species occurring 

 within the same limits. He mentioned that the taking of Brochymena annul'Ha, at 

 Lakehurst, N. J., was of interest. He also remarked that there was considerable 

 confusion in reference to the identity of the three .species of Brochymena occurring in 

 this locality {^B. anmdata, B. quadripiisiulata and B. arborea) and added tables for 

 their proper identification. 



Mr. Leng spoke of the rare beetles from Lakehurst, N. J. He briefly described 

 the place, mentioning the flat sandy country, the forests of small oaks and pines, the 

 sandy wood-roads, the sphagnum swamps with their growth of white cedar and the 

 cranberry bogs. He also referred to the boarding house of Mrs. Henry P. Taylor, 

 which has usually been the headquarters of visiting entomologists. 



Mr. Leng exhibited a few beetles taken at Lakehurst, and spoke especially 

 of Cicindela consentanea, recently found in abundance by Mr. Harris, Fasimac/ius 

 depressus found by Mr. Davis, Exochomus septentrionis found by Mr. Barber, Agabtis 

 tcEniolaius found by Mr. Roberts, Eros aurora, Cremostochiliis harrisii, Polypleurus 

 perforatus, Scymnus liebecki, etc. In conclusion he said that while the total number 

 of species living at Lakehurst might not prove unusually large, the number of species 

 peculiar to the region would be sufficient to make it always a desirable collecting 

 ground. 



Mr. Davis exhibited the type of N'eoclytus joutelii; a new species of longhorn 

 beetle found last summer at Lakehurst. 



Mr. Roberts made some remarks in reference to the rare water beetles he had 

 secured at Lakehurst. He secured 42 species of Dytiscidae from one pool. 



