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Banks, where a stream runs through a partly swampy area, between wooded 

 hillsides. He also showed the drawings he had prepared to accompany the 

 description to be printed later in the Journal. 



Mr. Barber said he also knew the locality and had taken a new species 

 there. 



Mr. Leng read a letter from Mr. Schwarz in which it was pointed out 

 that while no Silpha or Necrophoriis were known from the West Indies, there 

 had been found in Porto Rico and Cuba, representatives of the smaller 

 Silphidae. 



A letter from Mr. Dow was read correcting the paper on John Abbot of 

 Georgia, by making it appear probable that he was in Georgia previous to 1790. 



Mr. G. W. J. Angell exhibted the Nat. Geog. Mag. for July, 19 14. con- 

 taining a plate of Carabini experimentally introduced in Massachusetts, to 

 combat the gypsy moth, and stated that Calosoma sycophanta alone had been 

 found useful because its larva appeared to be the only one climbing the trees 

 for larvae. 



Mr. Davis commented upon the number of adult Calosoma frigidnm he 

 had found climbing on Long Island. 



Mr. Wintersteiner exhibited the remarkable monograph of Microlestes 

 by K. Holdhaus, in which excellent figures of our species of Blechrus, Dromiiis 

 and Metabletus, showing genitalia, are given. 



Meeting of December i, 1914. 



A regular meeting of the New York Entomological Society was held 

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

 tory, President Raymond C. Osburn in the chair and eighteen members present. 



Mr. H. G. Barber read a paper on " Collecting Insects in Porto Rico," 

 while Mr. F. E. Watson showed illustrations of the places referred to. Owing 

 to the dense population of the island, and close cultivation of the soil, col- 

 lecting was confined largely to the edges of cultivated fields, along the road- 

 sides and in and about the occasional patches of woodland. At San Juan, 

 the Insular Fair Grounds, reached in 20 minutes, proved an excellent collect- 

 ing ground, having been allowed to grow up in weeds, and an extensive tract 

 of more or less waste land adjoining belonging to the old Porto Rican forti- 

 fications was also good. Excellent collecting was also found along the beach 

 and among the cocoanut palms at San Turce. The mangrove swamp at 

 Catano, reached by ferry, did not yield so much. Aibonito, at an elevation 

 of 2,500 feet in the mountains of the interior was reached by automobile 

 stage, and there the Borinquen hotel and the collecting proved equally satis- 

 factory. Excellent sweeping and beating were found about the edges of the 

 woods and in the thickets, bvitterflies and dragonflies were abundant ; wooded 

 hills and open fields, due to fewer people, provided better conditions than 

 were subsequently found in any other locality. The nights in these moun- 

 tains were almost chilly. At Coamo Springs, further along the same stage 

 route, and still in the mountains, the extreme dryness and high winds oper- 



