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singer, was obtained, and a curious bug was found in the caves among bats. 

 The bottom of the caves was in many places covered with bat guano. 



Four species of Odonata were collected and others were seen ; three 

 small species of Myrmeleonidae and a great abundance of Termites. Their 

 nests were encountered everywhere, rising like huts from the ground, or 

 forming large balls on trunks and branches of trees, no doubt accounting 

 for the small amount of dead wood. 



Mr. Engelhardt mentioned the following works on the Entomology of 

 the Bahamas as useful, viz. : 



Emily Mary Sharpe, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1900, butterflies, 29 species. 



Geo. F. Hampson, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., VII and XIV, moths, 200-300 

 species. 



Chas. W. Johnson, Psyche, XV, 90 sp. Diptera. 



T. Horner Coffin, Rep. Balto. Geog. Soc, 15 sp. mosquitos. 



W. L. Distant, Ent. Mag., XII, Cicada bonhote. 



Albert P. Morse, Psyche, XII, Orthoptera. 



Jas. A. G. Rehm, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXII, 34 sp. orthoptera. 



H. F. Wickham, Rep. Bahama Exp. State Univ. Iowa ; Coleoptera. 



Professor Wheeler's paper on ants. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXI, and 

 Mrs. Northrop's on the plants were mentioned in the discussion following 

 Mr. Engelhardt's remarks, in which President Osburn and Messrs. Davis and 

 I-eng took part. It developed that in birds and otherwise there was a 

 marked tendency for each island to support its own species. 



Mr. Mutchler showed a specimen of the beetle Microphthalmus debilis, 

 donated by Mr. H. S. Barber, of Washington, and read extracts from the 

 paper by Mr. Barber, descriptive of its plastic larval forms and manifold 

 reproductive habits. 



Mr. Leng showed Miss Marian A. Palmer's paper on " Life History of 

 Ladybeetles " in the current number of the Annals of the Entomological 

 Society of America. 



Mr. Wintersteiner called attention to Champion's paper in Trans. Ent. 

 Soc. London, 1914, part i, on Malachidse and Melyridse, in which Floridian 

 and West Indian forms are mentioned. 



Meeting of January 5, 1915. 



The annual meeting of the New York Entomological Society was held 

 at the American Museum of Natural History, on Tuesday, January 5, 1915, 

 at 8:15 P. M. President Dr. Raymond C. Osburn in the chair, with seven- 

 teen members present, as a visitor, Mr. W. T. Bather, of the Brooklyn Ento- 

 mological Society. 



In the absence of the Secretary, Mr. Barber was chosen to act as sec- 

 retary pro tem. 



Mr. Sherman spoke of receiving sample blocks or cubes of granite by 

 parcel post from Massachusetts with the gypsy moth inspector's name on 

 the seal, thus showing what precautions are now being taken to prevent the 

 spread of the gypsy moth. 



