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the base of the perpendicular cHffs. On June 24, 1914, I found sev- 

 eral specimens of the sea going bug Halohates micans Esch. (zvuel- 

 lerstorffi Frauenfeld) swimming about among these masses of clay, 

 but was more surprised to find the beetles Dineutes hornii Roberts 

 and Gyrimis sp. The water is salt enough to be the home of many 

 sea shells and crabs, so the beetles were not expected. 



At the base of the cliffs, where there is a narrow beach of sev- 

 eral feet, Bemhidium Iccvigatum Say was found in some numbers, 

 and in one place where there is a short sandy beach between two of 

 the bluffs, Mr. Ernest Shoemaker and I collected the tiger beetles 

 Cicindela piiritana, C. marginata, C. hirticollis, C. repanda, and on 

 the extreme upbeach C. pimctulata. The specimens of hirticollis 

 are remarkable on account of their broad white markings, as broad 

 as in many specimens of gencrosa. On the moist ground of the more 

 gentle sloping sides of some of the banks were grouse-locusts, Para- 

 tettix cucuUatiis Burm. and Tcttigidca lateralis Say; also a number 

 of toad-bugs, Gelastocoris oculatus Fabr. A trip to Chesapeake 

 Beach, made in June, 1911, was commented upon in this Journal for 

 March, 1912. — Wm. T. Davis. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE NEW YORK ENTOMO- 

 LOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Meeting of February 16, 1915. 



A regular meeting of the New York Entomological Society was held Feb- 

 ruary 16, 1915, at 8: 15 P.M., in the American Museum of Natural History, 

 President Dr. Raymond C. Osburn in the chair, with 16 members, and two 

 visitors present. 



The curator reported the addition of a paratype of Papaipenia humuli 

 to the local collection, by gift of Mr. Henry Bird. 



Mr. Davis recommended the publication by the society of a Check List 

 of Hemiptera, written by E. P. Van Duzee, and presented for publication by 

 him through Mrs. Annie Trumbull Slosson. Mr. Davis offered to advance 

 the cost of the printing, the amount to be repaid without interest as funds 

 accrued from the sales until the entire amount advanced had been repaid ; the 

 proceeds of sales thereafter to belong to the society. 



Mr. Barber, Mr. Schaeffer, Dr. Lutz and Dr. Osburn spoke in favor of 

 the project and on motion by Dr. Lutz, the offer of Mr. Davis was accepted 

 and the work accepted for publication. 



