128 Journal New York Entomological Society, f'^'o'- ^i^- 



Berliner Entomol. Zeitschrift, LIV, nos. 3 and 4. 



The committee appointed to investigate the purchase of additional book 

 cases reported through its chairman. Mr. Davis, that the Globe-Wernicke Co. 

 would furnish six additional sections, including tops, for $33. and would 

 make an allowance of about $2.25 for the return of bottom sections not re- 

 quired by the Society. On motion it was voted that the committee be author- 

 ized to make the purchase on these terms. 



Dr. Raymond Osburn reported the receipt, for photograph collection, of 

 pictures of Dr. L. Kraatz, Mr. Otto Lugger and Dr. Hugo Soltau and requested 

 further contributions. 



Mr. R. P. Dow moved that the regular meeting of April be made a joint 

 meeting with the Brooklyn Entomological Society, and that the members of 

 the latter be duly invited to attend. Motion was carried. 



Mr. John D. Sherman addressed the society on the subject '" Beetles 

 from Labrador." He referred especially to the three general works on Labra- 

 dor, viz., " The Labrador Coast," by A. S. Packard ; " Along the Labrador 

 Coast," by Charles W. Townsend, and '" A Report on the Brown-Harvard 

 Expedition to Labrador in the Year 1900," by E. B. Delabarre, and stated that 

 Packard's list was the only enumeration of Labrador beetles. Mr. Sherman 

 had received nearly 10,000 specimens, representing about 100 species, from 

 various collectors, portions of whose letters were read. A number of speci- 

 mens were exhibited and commented upon, among them being Elaphrus 

 obliteratiis. Trechns rithens. Pterostichus puntatissimus, Amara glacialis, 

 Harpahis fiik'ilabris, Halophus cribrarins. Dytiscus parvulus, ' D. doricus. 

 Latridius minutus. Stenotrachelus arcuatus and Mordella borealis, many of 

 these representing additions to Packard's list. He referred to Agabus 

 arcticns as peculiar to Labrador, and mentioned the receipt of an undescribed 

 species of this genus. Aphodius gut tat us was the only Scarabsid in the collec- 

 tion, but by way of contrast three of the four known North American species 

 of Paronomus, a genus of Elateridae, had been received. 



Mr. Thomas Hallinan spoke on " The Morphos and Caligos of the 

 Panamian Isthmus." He described the geography and topography of the 

 region with the aid of a map. Tt is a country of intense humidity and of 

 very great variation in the extent of rainfall, the two coasts differing in this 

 and other respects. He exhibited several species of Morpho and Caligo, and 

 commented on their habits, stating that the Morphos fly chiefly in the open, 

 sunny clearings during the morning hours, and are difficult to catch except 

 when flying against the wind ; while the Caligos fly in the denser and darker 

 parts of the jungle, where they are protected by the thorny vegetation. 



Mr. Charles Schaeffer spoke on " Distinguishing Characters in the His- 

 teridcT." He stated that the number and position of the thoracic stria; 

 aft'orded the best characters, while the shape of the mesosternum. whether 

 truncate or emarginate. the outline of the front tibi;e, the thoracic hairs and the 

 two pygidia were also important. 



Mr. Schaeffer also exhibited and discussed a specimen of Pterostichus 

 lacliryiiiosus having a peculiar malformation of the thorax. 



