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vation of 3,900 ftct, l)ut were not visited on account of ill health at 

 the time. Mr. Davis said it was somewhat remarkable that though he was 

 not able to work as hard as he did in the Adirondacks, and caught fewer 

 insects, he had already discovered among them a new species of Aflanticiis 

 and suspected more in other orders. He noticed that Cicindcla harrisi re- 

 placed C. se.vguttata completely, that Satynis alope exhibited a greater range 

 df variation than on Staten Island, and in many other respects besides those 

 pointed out in the Orthoptera, the locality seemed possessed of a fauna 

 more or less marked by peculiarities that deserve further study. 



Mr. Dow read a paper " Fragments of Entomological History " in which 

 he traced the entomological references in the earliest literature of the old 

 world down to 323 B. C., when Aristotle mentioned 74 kinds of insects, in- 

 cluding spiders, and pointed out that the first references cover mainly crop 

 destroying and biting insects, although the honey bee and silkworm also 

 receive early mention. 



A few of the generic names now in use can be traced back to these early 

 times, though the meaning has usually become perverted. 



Mr. Watson read a paper " Some Local Lepidoptcrous Records " which 

 will be printed in the Journal under Miscellaneous Notes. 



Meeting of February 2, 1915. 



A regular meeting of the New York Entomological Society was held 

 February 2, 1915, at S:is A. M., in the American Museum of Natural His- 

 tory, President Dr. Raymond C. Osburn in the chair, and nine members 

 present. 



Dr. J. B. Knapp, of 35 West 75th St., was elected an active member. 



The President called attention to a work recently issued by Comstock 

 Publ. Co., " Handbook of Medical Entomology," by Drs. Riley and Johannsen, 

 of Cornell University. 



Mr. Bird under the title " A Papaipcma of Metropolitan Environment " 

 told the story of his discovery of P. luunuli, which has been described in the 

 Canadian Entomologist, and exhibited twelve specimens of the moth, with 

 its pupa, larva in five stages of development, and samples of workings in the 

 swollen stem of the hop vines. In the course of his remarks, Mr. Bird 

 pointed out the difficulties the similarity between this and allied species, 

 particularly P. circiiiuiuccns Smith, had caused previous authors, and the 

 method he had followed of raising the specimens of both species so that all 

 stages and food plant became known. In connection with the hop, the food 

 plant of P. luunuli, which by botanists has sometimes been regarded as an 

 introduced species, though that view is discarded in the last edition of 

 Britton & Brown, Mr. Bird said that he had found on a hop vine (Hnmuhis 

 hipulns) near his home fourteen species of insects, one a Cecidomyid, Lasiop- 

 tera humuUcauIis, the possibility of whose having an alternative food plant 

 is exceedingly remote, two others of genera restricted to North America 



