June, 1913-] Proceedings of the Society. 163 



Neuronia pardalis Walker near New York City. — As a contribu- 

 tion to faunistics it would seem to be desirable to place on record one 

 of the largest and most beautiful of the Trichoptera as occurring 

 within our local bounds. An examination of the last edition of Pro- 

 fessor Smith's List of the Insects of New Jersey indicates that he was 

 not aware that Neuroma pardalis Walker had a place among the 

 insects of that state, nor have I found it recorded from this neighbor- 

 hood in New York. It was my good fortune w^hile sweeping the 

 roadside herbage at Lakehurst, New Jersey, at dusk on the 5th of 

 June, 1909, to find in my bag a perfect adult specimen of this caddis- 

 fly. Another specimen now -in the collection of Mr. William T. 

 Davis, of Staten Island, bears a label attesting its capture by Mr. Frank 

 E. Watson near Ramapo, New York, on June 7, 1908. So far as I 

 have been able to learn these are the only two instances of the taking 

 of this insect within our local limits. — Lewis B. Woodruff. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE NEW YORK ENTOMOLOG- 

 ICAL SOCIETY. 



Meeting of January 21. 



A regular meeting of the New York Entomological Society was held 

 January 21, 1913, at 8:15 P. M., in the American Museum of Natural History, 

 Vice-President Chas. L. Pollard in the chair, with seventeen members and 

 three visitors present. 



The curator reported the receipt of important donations to the local col- 

 lection including 169 Neuropteroids, representing 142 species, obtained from 

 Nathan Banks, making that part of the collection 80 per cent, perfect ; and a 

 collection of Thysanoptera obtained from J. Douglass Hood. 



The vice-president then opened the Symposium on Insects of Mesophytic 

 Environment. 



Dr. Lutz, speaking of the environment itself, said that it might be re- 

 garded as the climax of the evolution of environment, represented in forests 

 of oak-chestnut-beech and in meadows rich in clovers, which forests and 

 meadows must by the laws of plants result from natural processes. The 

 question was, however, if it could be shown that insects followed the same laws. 



Mr. Leng, speaking of the beetles of Mesophytic Environment, expressed 

 the opinion that food for beetles constituted a more important factor than 

 moisture, and a wish that this, being recognized, might lead to a more general 

 use of pin labels recording food plants and habits. 



