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moist bark appears to be the most favorable season for finding the 

 larvae. The writer would welcome the cooperation of entomologists 

 and others in searching for these forms in different parts of the 

 country. He will be pleased to determine specimens found under 

 various conditions, make rearings therefrom if possible, and thus 

 add to our knowledge of the subfamily Heteropezinae, a group which 

 should be fairly abundant in North America and one deserving care- 

 ful study. — E. P. Felt. 



Miastor Larvae in Connecticut. — In connection with the preceding 

 note by Dr. Felt it may be of interest to record that Mr. C. T. Brues 

 and I found large numbers of Miastor larvae at Colebrook, Litch- 

 field County, Conn., June 8, 1911. These larvae, many of which were 

 in active paedogenesis, were living in colonies under the bark of 

 elm and maple stumps in a damp but open wood. The trees had 

 been recently felled and there was considerable sap between the bark 

 and wood. In the same locality I failed to find any of these larvae 

 during the last week of July and first week of September. — W. M. 

 Wheeler. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE NEW YORK ENTOMO- 

 LOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Meeting of Tuesday, May 3, igio. 



Held at the American Museum of Natural History. President C. W. 

 Leng in the chair with sixteen members present. 



Reports were received from the Treasurer and the Curator. 



Mr. Dow of the Field Committee reported that the Decoration Day and 

 Fourth of July meetings were very nearly arranged for and would be reported 

 upon at the next meeting. 



Mr. Joutel exhibited living larvje of Thclydrias contractus and stated that 

 he had on a former occasion made four applications of bisulphide of carbon 

 in order to kill one of them and had been unsuccessful. He demonstrated 

 that by a liberal application of bisulphide of carbon none of the four larvae- 

 was harmed. He remarked that the life cycle was apparently one year, but 

 that they had, without food, lived for three or four years in the larval stage. 



Mr. Schaeffer exhibited a number of new Carabidse which he has been 

 studying lately, the descriptions and notes of which will be published in the 

 Bulletin of the Brooklyn Museum. He gave the distinguishing characters of 

 most of the species and pointed out also some synonymy in the group. Among 



