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to the New Jersey List. The oak trees, as shown by photograph, were com- 

 pletely defoliated in places by the larvae of Anisofa scnatoria, presenting the 

 deceptive appearance of having been eaten by Dcndrotettix qiicrcus. Much 

 attention was paid to sugaring and by day the sugared trees were found to be 

 frequented by numbers of Vespa and Polistes and, attacking these, by many 

 wheel bugs, Arilus cristatus. On high huckleberry bushes the " cowsheds " 

 of the ant, Cremastogasfer lineolata pihsa, built over coccids were observed, 

 In the Orthoptera, the true Katy-did was found but with the song apparatus 

 nearly worn out. Perching high in the trees these insects would be difficult 

 to catch except for their habit of falling straight down when disturbed. The 

 method employed in collecting was to touch the insect, when discovered at 

 night by the aid of a lantern with a long stick or a fishing pole might be used, 

 thus causing it to fall into the ready net. OrchcUmum minor was detected 

 by its short buzzing song and was also caught at sugar. Conocephahts liristes 

 was heard singing in the cranberry bogs. As a sequel to the Camp at Lake- 

 hurst, Mr. Davis showed a photograph of the chestnut tree under which 

 eighteen entomologists camped, now attacked by the chestnut blight, Endothia 

 parasitica, and apparently doomed, though standing five miles from any other 

 chestnut. Mr. Davis showed a branch injured by chafing against another 

 through which the spores, carried doubtless by birds, as already recorded, had 

 entered. 



Mr. David spoke also of the Lepidoptera, his remarks being recorded in 

 Miscellaneous Notes, and exhibited photographs. 



Mr. Shoemaker endorsed Mr. Davis's enthusiastic comments on the ex- 

 cursion, stating that in three nights, sugaring about i8o noctuids, represent- 

 ing 35 species, and about 20 species of beetles were taken. The sugaring at 

 night and long walks by day made it hard work, fully repaid, however, by the 

 capture of about twelve specimens of Homoglcca carnosa, one at sugar, the 

 remainder on huckleberry leaves, where the reddish color of the moth so 

 closely resembled that of the autumn leaves as to make their discovery diffi- 

 cult. Mr. Shoemaker exhibited a pair of each of the species he had caught 

 and a specimen of the southern beetle, Cymindis elegans, found under a stone, 

 and previously known from New Jersey by two specimens taken at Atco by 

 Mr. Liebeck. 



Mr. Dow remarked, in a somewhat humorous way, that the enthtisiasm 

 of the Lakehurst visitors, while well founded, should not lead to the draw- 

 backs of thirst, long tramps in the sand, and danger of losing the road being 

 forgotten. 



Mr. Davis spoke of the danger of the molasses used in sugaring becom- 

 ing fermented sufficiently to cause explosion of the can and described such 

 an incident at Lakehurst. 



Dr. Forbes spoke of the interest he took in tracing the species peculiar 

 to Lakehurst northward, mentioning in that connection the occurrence of 

 Prionapteryx nebulifera, a moth whose larva constructs a tube of silk and 

 sand at base of stalk of huckleberry bushes, on the southern shore of Massa- 



