270 JouKXAL Xew York Entomological Society. r\"oi. xix. 



Mr. Pollard moved that the President appoint a committee of three to 

 consult with a similar committee from the Brooklyn Entomological Society, in 

 reference to a joint dinner to be given sometime later in the winter. Carried. 

 The President appointed Messrs. Pollard, Angell and Engelhardt as such 

 committee. 



Dr. Southwick moved that a committee be appointed by the chair to 

 nominate candidates for office, so that they could be voted upon at the annual 

 meeting on January 3. The chair appointed Messrs, Southwick. Lutz and 

 Sleight as a nominating committee. 



The secretary presented the resignations of Dr. J. H. Stebbins, Jr.. and 

 Mr. J. R. de la Torre Bueno. Upon motion they were duly accepted. 



Dr. Lutz briefly reviewed a number of recent entomological contributions 

 to the literature of evolution, laying special emphasis upon the relation between 

 chromosomes and sex, and the inheritance of sexually dichromatic variations. 



Dr. Osburn under the title " Remarks on the Genus Syrphtis Auctt " stated 

 that it was a large genus containing 225 species, 64 of which occur in the 

 United States, and 9 or 10 locally within the fifty-mile limit. He mentioned 

 the characters used in the classification of this group and spoke of the synon- 

 ymy which is in rather a tangled condition. Dr. Osburn exhibited his collec- 

 tion and also a specimen of Conops reared by Mr. Engelhardt from a Bombus 

 collected at Yaphank. L. I. 



Mr. Hallinan exhibited a number of Panama dragonflies. He remarked that 

 a lizard which was common in Panama fed upon these insects, as he found out 

 by examining the contents of its stomach. He suggested that therefore 

 possibly the lizard indirectly helps to cause the abundance of mosquitoes. 



Mr. Schaeffer exhibited specimens of different species of beetles which 

 were captured in coitit. for instance: Lycostonius fcmoratus t^ in coitii with 

 Lycostomns loripes $ and Diachus catariiis t^ in coitu with Diachus auratus $. 



Mr. Charles L. Pollard, under the title " A Remarkable Dragonfly," dis- 

 cu.ssed the specimen taken by him at Wilmington, N. C, August i, 1909, which 

 was determined by Currie as Gomphoides ambigua, a Mexican species not here- 

 tofore reported from the United States. Mr. Pollard stated that the insect had 

 been submitted for examination to Professor Philip P. Calvert, who considered 

 it to exhibit characters midway between Gomphoides ambigiia and (7. producla. 

 so that it is scarcely referable to any existing species. In any case it is the 

 northernmost record for any dragonfly of this essentially tropical genus. 



Society adjourned. 



H. G. Barber, 



Secretary. 



