198 Journal New York Entomological Society, [^oi. xxiii. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE NEW YORK ENTOMO- 

 LOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Meeting of April 20, 19x5. 



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

 20, 191S, at 8: 15 P.M., in the American Museum of Natural History, Pres- 

 ident Dr. Raymond C. Osburn in the chair, with 18 members and two visitors 

 present. 



Mr. Dow for the Field Committee reported on the outing of April 11 at 

 Central Park, L. I., mentioning especially the capture of Tricrania sanguini- 

 pennis. The proposed outing of May 31st at Coytesville was discussed and 

 action postponed to the next meeting. 



Mr. Davis exihibited and spoke of the " Orthoptera collected in Florida 

 by Messrs. Mutchler and Watson," pointing out the characters of the two new 

 species obtained, illustrated by figures drawn, in spite of illness, by Mr. Joutel, 

 and the minor differences that characterized several other species in the 

 Floridian part of their range. 



Mr. Davis also exhibited and spoke of certain species of Cicada and their 

 synonymy, pointing out the importance in classification of the anal plates and 

 the tendency to always look at the wrong end of an insect exhibited in some 

 of the descriptions. 



His remarks will be printed in full in the Journal. 



The discussion that followed in which Dr. Osburn and Mr. Engelhardt 

 took part brought out some of the differences between northern and southern 

 Florida in the distribution of Orthoptera and the occurrence at Everglade of 

 Aplopus niayeri Caudell, a species previously known from Tortugas only. 



Mr. Woodruff under the title " New Homoptera in Local Fauna " exhib- 

 ited and described a new species of Membracidse and the previously unknown 

 male of another species, taken at Bronxville, dwelling particularly on the 

 peculiar environment for each. 



Dr. Osborn, Mr. Davis and Mr. Olsen, in discussing the paper, spoke of 

 the real or apparent scarcity of males in certain groups of insects and the 

 causes thereof. 



Mr. Harris spoke of his recent trip southward, covering Fortress Monroe, 

 Southern Pines, Columbia and Summerville, saying that though the season 

 was everywhere backward and Cicindelidse scarce, he had succeeded in taking 

 C. vulgaris minor and C. rugifrons Carolina and thus extending their known 

 range. 



Mr. Harris also commented on the fact communicated by Mr. Lantz that 

 at Washington, D. C, C. se.rguttata is taken in the fall as well as in the early 

 part of the year up to July, while on the Palisades he had never found it in the 

 fall, though it has been taken at that season elsewhere in the vicinity of New 

 York City and some specimens evidently live through the winter, after pupa- 

 tion in autumn, being found very early in the year under bark or stones. 



Mr. Sherman spoke of a recent visit with Mr. Schwarz at his home on 



