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care of Dr. Southwick's collection of food plants of insects and that a card 

 catalogue would be provided to make notes concerning food relations and other 

 interesting subjects. 



Upon motion of Mr. Engelhardt. Mr. Otto Zeimet was elected an active 

 member of the Society. 



The librarian, Mr. Schaeffer, advised the purchase by the society of 

 Blatchley's " Beetles of Indiana." Upon the motion of Mr. Wheat, Mr. 

 Schaeffer was duly authorized to purchase and have bound a copy of this work. 



Mr. Davis exhibited and spoke concerning " Some Noteworthy Hemiptera 

 Collected on Long Island." During the past summer he had collected five 

 species of Hemiptera which are usually more common to the south of New 

 York and which have not been hitherto recorded from Long Island, with the 

 exception of the fifth in the list. These were found in the Pine belt of the 

 Island in a territory similar to that of Lakehurst, N. J. The five species men- 

 tioned were Apionienis crassipes. Lygcciis bicnicis. Largus succinctus, Nesara 

 pennsylvanica, Tetyra bipiinctata. He remarked concerning the stridulating 

 organs of the latter insect. Mr. Davis also stated that he had captured a 

 specimen of Painphila phylceus in the garden of Dr. Southwick in Central Park 

 on October 5. It was rather uncommon to find this southern skipper so far 

 north. He mentioned that it had been taken at Lake Hopatcong, N, J., August 

 29, igo8. 



Mr. Engelhardt mentioned that Mr. Jacob Doll had captured Vanessa 

 milberti on Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, and that another had been taken at 

 Sheepshead Bay, Long Island. 



Mr. Schaeffer exhibited a few new and interesting Coleoptera about which 

 he had written in the Journal. He also exhibited and discussed Elaieropsis sp., 

 a beetle from Cuba in which the female was more brightly colored than the 

 male, and Conops pictiis. a fly mimicing the wasp, Eumcnes colona. A specimen 

 of Pieris rapct impaled on the hook-like spines of burdock was also shown and 

 commented upon. 



Mr. Grossbeck under the title " Further Observations on the Life History 

 of Emphor bombiformis " spoke of making various observations on the colonies 

 of this bee to ascertain the duration of the larval and pupal life and thus 

 complete the life history, the study of which was commenced last year and dis- 

 cussed before the society last winter. Specimens and drawings of the various 

 stages of the bees were exhibited as well as a square foot of the soil showing 

 the burrows, the cocoons of the bees, and the pollen balls. 



Mr. John W. Angell reported having taken Cicindela 12-guttata on October 

 8, which he considered a late date for its capture. 



Mr. Pollard called attention to a recent bulletin of the U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture on the New Mexican range caterpillar, Hemileuca olivia, a Bomby- 

 cine moth, which was commented upon. 



Mr, Dickerson exhibited and commented upon an Hemipterous insect, 

 Ligyrocorus sp., having three segments in place of four in one antenna. 



Mr. Engelhardt mentioned noticing that at Promised Land, Long Island, a 



