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and the characters by which they could be recognized. It was interesting to 

 jnote that the first genus mentioned, Trechus. was also the subject of Mr. 

 Schaeffer's first entomological paper. 



Mr. Leng read a paper on " Recent Publications in Scolytids " in which 

 the important papers of the past eight years, especially those by Hagedorn, 

 Nusslin, Reitter, Swaine and Hopkins were reviewed, and a general com- 

 mentary on the habits of the family included. 



In the discussion that followed, Messrs. Dickerson and deVyver spoke 

 particularly of the three species of horticultural interest, Scolytus rugiilosus 

 and qnadrispinosus and Phlccotribus liminaris, and experiment station litera- 

 ture thereon, particularly the Ohio Bulletin by Gossard. 



Mr, Davis spoke of the Cicindela highway on the road between Ridgeway 

 and Whitesville, N. J., where in one day, August 22, 19 12, he had taken eight 

 species, generosa, purpurea, tranquebarica, obscura, rugifrons, consentanea, rufi- 

 ventris, punctulata and two more, repanda and unipunctata, later, nearby, as 

 a preliminary to the exhibition of five species found on Chesapeake Beach, 

 Md., with photographs of the locality and his companion ; the latter in a 

 costume adapted to the capture of the seagoing bugs that frequented the pools 

 formed between the pieces of clay that fell from the cliffs above. 



A complete account of the insects thus found swimming in salt water, as 

 well as thp Cicindelidse of this beach will be published elsewhere. 



Mr. J. R. de la Torre Bueno, present as a visitor, remarked that the 

 specimens shown were the first winged Holobates he had seen. 



Mr. Sherman exhibited Miscodera arctica from Lake Superior and M. 

 insignis and Zacotus matthezvsi received from Dr. Van Dyke. 



Mr. Nicolay called attention to Mordellistena ambusta as an addition to 

 the local list, based on specimen from Bronxville, N. Y., caught and identified 

 by Mr. Woodruff. 



Mr. Dow spoke of correspondence with various collectors, R. E. Ludwig 

 of St. Petersburg, Fla., Fordyce Grinnell of Los Angeles, Calif., famous for 

 his success in interesting boys in natural history, Warren Knaus of McPher- 

 son, Kan., Ralph Hopping, H. C. Fall, Charles Dury and others, particularly 

 in connection with Mr. Dury's discovery of the number of small Coleoptera 

 that could be caught under a pile of cut grass, kept moist, and with attractive 

 bait, watermelon rind, etc., added. He said that he hoped to secure valuable 

 distribution data, as well as specimens, by having this peculiar environment 

 repeated at widely separated places. 



Meeting of March 16, 1915. 



A regular meeting of the New York Entomological Society was held March 

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

 dent Dr. Raymond C. Osburn in the chair, with 12 members, and three visi- 

 tors, Dr. J. M. Aldrich, of Illinois, and Miss Cain and Miss Clarke, of Colum- 

 bia University, present. 



Dr. Aldrich spoke on " Western Salt Lakes and their Insect Inhabitants." 



