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der, captured by Mrs. Annie Trumbull Slosson at Lake Toxaway, N. C, and 

 said it was easily distinguished from D. femorata and D. veliei by the form 

 of the male genitalia. The species was described from one male from North 

 Carolina, but was not included in the list of Orthoptera of North Carolina by 

 Sherman and Brimley, Ent. News, November, 191 1. 



Meeting of December 3, 1912. 



A regular meeting of the New York Entomological Society was held De- 

 cember 3, 1912, at 8.15 P. M., in the American Museum of Natural History, 

 President Dr. Raymond C. Osburn in the chair with nineteen members and 

 one visitor present. 



The Curator reported continued work on the Geometridse of the Local Col- 

 lection, also the results of winter collecting at Ramsey, in company with Messrs. 

 Sleight and Leng, in adding to local records and increasing the series in the 

 Local Collection. 



Mr. Engelhardt's remarks on " Lepidoptera from Casco Bay, Me., and the 

 White Mountains, N. H.," were based on observations and insects collected 

 during a two weeks' trip from September 10 to 24 to Portland and Orr's Island, 

 Me., and North Conway, N. H. 



At Cape Cottage near Portland, as well as in many of the islands in Casco 

 Bay, deciduous trees and shrubs had suffered from the attacks of the brown- 

 tail moth, Euproctis chrysorrhea, to an extent which gave vast stretches of 

 the landscape an appearance of being superficially scorched by fire. Scat- 

 tered individuals of adult moths and unhatched egg clusters could still be 

 found, but greatest in number were the colonies of young larvae already housed 

 in their hibernating tents. Several of the adults of this insect attracted to 

 electric lights were also observed by the speaker at North Conway. Quite 

 numerous on Orr's Island feeding on aspen were the larvae of Pheosia dimi- 

 diata and Smerinthus cerysii and feeding on bayberry, the larvae of Samia 

 Columbia. Extremely common in the dense spruce thickets on this island 

 were the geometrid moths, Tephroclystis interriiptofasciata and Mesoleuca 

 immanata, and less common Hydriomena contracTa. Catocala relicfa and con- 

 cumbens could not be overlooked on account of their numbers. In the suburbs 

 of Portland five and six specimens at a time were counted resting on a pole 

 or tree trunk near an electric light. At North Conway, which may be called 

 the southern gateway to the White Mountains, a grove of magnificent red and 

 white pines conveniently near the hotel received the most attention in the col- 

 lecting line. On several nights trees were baited for moths and at other times 

 the beating of branches with dry leaves still attached, a favorite resting place 

 for moths during daylight, was resorted to. Both methods gave satisfactory 

 results. 



In its diversified character, this region offers exceptional opportunities to 

 the entomologist and botanist. Stretches of typical pine barren extend up the 

 valley, the foothills are clothed with stately oaks, maples and white pines, and 

 these in turn are succeeded by dense forests of spruce in the higher mountains. 



