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chusetts. He said Cohasset, Mass., should be a specially interesting locality 

 in that connection, for though far from thoroughly collected, it had already 

 yielded many species not known elsewhere in the state. He also mentioned 

 that in plants some Carolinian species had been found as far north as Bay 

 St. George, Newfoundland, by Fernald. 



Mr. Davis reminded the Society that he had recorded the finding of 

 Prionapteryx at Yaphank, Long Island. 



Mr. J. W. Angell exhibited a larva found in hickory and spoke of Nepper- 

 han, near Yonkers, as a good collecting ground where he had found the larvae 

 of Xyloryctes satyrns in ash. 



Mr. Woodruff recorded Lephira exigua found at Hewitt, N. J., June 21, 

 on flowers of Cornits paniculata, as new to the New Jersey List; also Leptinus 

 testaceus, a single specimen found April 27, at Bronxville, N. Y., in sifting 

 the debris of a mouse nest at the foot of a stump ; and spoke of the abundance 

 of Vanessa cardiii in August and September, and of finding Eiiptoieta claitdia 

 at Fox Hills, Staten Island, in September. 



Mr. Leng read a letter from Mr. Harris reporting his examination of Col. 

 Casey's collection of Cicindelidie. 



Mr. Leng spoke of Calosoma sycophauta, a European Carabid beetle, 

 having been introduced successfully in eastern Massachusetts to combat the 

 gypsy moth and called attention to the mention of this beetle at Taunton, 

 Mass., by Mr. Easton in the bulletin issued by the New England Federation 

 of Natural History Societies. 



Mr. Hall spoke of four days spent at Aurora, W. Va., June 19 to 23, 

 where he found Argynnis swarming at an elevation of about 2,800 ft. There 

 were literally thousands of these butterflies in sight, fluttering about flowers 

 of dogbane, Argynnis aphrodite outnumbered cybele three to one. In reply to 

 Dr. Forbes, Mr. Hall said no A. alcestis were observed. 



Mr. Davis quoted a statement that when VaJiessa cardui is common, 

 other butterflies are scarce, but doubted its accuracy. 



Mr. Watson said just the contrary would be nearer the truth. 



Dr. Osburn exhibited Tabanidae and Syrphidae received from E. M. An- 

 derson, curator of the Provincial Museum in British Columbia, partly at 

 Atlin, 100 miles inland and near the northern boundary of the province, and 

 spoke of their distribution, particularly of those inhabiting Europe and Asia 

 as well as America. 



A general discussion of holoarctic distribution by Messrs. Davis, Olsen 

 and others followed Dr. Osburn's remarks. 



Mr. Olsen mentioned the occurrence of the European aphid, Callipterus 

 betnlcc at Honesdale, Pa., November 23, 1913, and of the European Capsid,' 

 Pithanus iiurrkeli at Maspeth, Long Island. 



AIeeting of November 17, 1914. 



A regular meeting of the New York Entomological Society was held 

 November 17, 1914, at 8:15 P. M., in the American Museum of Natural His- 



