204 Journal Xew York Entomological Society. [VoLXIx. 



middle of May in the city. This is unusual as this species hatches in the 

 late summer and autumn. 



Mr. Schaeffer exhiliited some Coleoptera which had been taken in Choko- 

 losee, Fla.. and obtained through Mr. Franck. Most of these had been intro- 

 duced from Cuba. He also showed four good species of Coleoptera taken at 

 Wyandach, L. I. 



Mr. Leng stated that at a meeting of the Deutsche Ent. Gesellschaft, 

 March 14, Schenkling gave some statistics as to the number of described 

 Coleoptera. Linne in 1758 knew 574 species, in 1788. 4.000 species. Dejean 

 possessed in 1830, 21,000 species. Gemminger and Harold listed 77,026 species. 

 From the first ten installments of the new catalogue Schenkling figured that as 

 7,078 species therein named take the place of 2,718 listed by Gemminger and 

 Harold, the total in completion of the new catalogue, may be 250,000. Gebien 

 commenting on his statement said that in Tenebrionidae the 4.200 species 

 listed by Gemminger would grow to 146,000 species and he believed that only 

 one-fourth of the species existing in nature would be covered even then. 

 Ohaus stated that in the Rutelids the G. and H. numbers would be multiyjlied 

 six or seven times. 



The society adjourned. 



Meeting of Tuesd.w, October 4, 191 o. 



Held at the American Museum of Natural History Tuesday at 8.15 P.M. 

 Dr. E. B. Southwick was elected to preside as chairman in the absence of the 

 president and vice-president. Twenty-two members were present. 



Minutes of the meeting of May 17 were read and approved. The Treas- 

 urer, Mr. Davis, made a report in which he stated that he had found it 

 necessary to transfer $100 from the society's account to help out the Joik.nal 

 account. He recommended that space be given in the journal for short 

 notes, with the expectation that it might add to the popularity of the Joiknal 

 and thus increase the number of subscriptions. 



The Librarian, Mr. .Schaeffer, reported the receipt of the following ex- 

 changes : 



Entomol. Zeitschrift, XXIV, Nos. 5-22. 



Societas Entomologica XXV, Nos. 3, 4. 



Zeitschrift f. wissenschaftliche Insektenbiologie, Vil, 4-7. 



Bull, de la Soc. Imper. des Naturalistes de Moscow, 1908, Nos. 1-4. 



Verhandl. d. K. K. Zool. bot. Gesellschaft in Wien, LIX, No. X ; LX, 

 No. 12. 



Mittheilungen d. schweizerischen Entomol. Gesell., XH, No. i. 



Bull, de la Soc. Entomol. d'Egypte, 191 o, No. i. 



Canadian Entomologist, XLH, Nos. 6-9. 



Coleopterorum Catalogus, Parts 15-19. 



Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, 1910, Nos. i, 2. 



Fourth .■\nn. Rept. Ent. Soc. Ontario, 1909. 



Deutsche Entomol. Zeitschrift, 1910. Nos. 3-6. 



