Dec, 1913-] Proceedings of the Society. 313 



Prionapteryx nebulifera. — This Pyralid occurs at Yaphank, Long 

 Island, N. Y., where I found its silken, sand-grain-coated tubes, on 

 small huckleberry bushes on May 30, 1911, and again on May 18, 1913. 

 Previous records are from the southern states and the Pine Barrens 

 of New Jersey. — Wm. T. Davis. 



A CORRECTION. 



Line 5 from bottom on page 148 of the June number pertains to 

 Trichopodopsis and not to Trichiopoda. It should read : 

 Type, Musca (Dictya) pennipes J. C. Fab. 



Trichiopoda Latreille. 



Synonyms, Trichopoda auct. pt. Polistomyia Townsend. 



Parasitic in Acridiidae (Dissostcira) so far as known. Deposits 

 flat-oval macrotype eggs on host. Described in Tax. Muse. Flies 

 (1908), pp. 132-133. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE NEW YORK ENTOMOLOG- 

 ICAL SOCIETY. 



Meeting of May 20. 



A regular meeting of the New York Entomological Society was held May 

 20, 1913, at 8:15 P. M., in the American Museum of Natural History, Vice- 

 President Charles L. Pollard in the chair, with 27 members and two visitors 

 present. 



Mr. Schaeffer exhibited specimens and spoke on the North American 

 species of the genus Rhizophagus, referring particularly to the holoarctic dis- 

 tribution of some species, leading to the discovery of some heretofore un- 

 suspected synonymy, as in the case of the species he had described as robustus 

 from Long Island, New Jersey and Kentucky, which is identical with the 

 European parallelocollis and diuiidiatus which is the same as the European 

 dispar. Mr. Schaeffer described some of the characters employed which indi- 

 cate specific differences, the dilation of the second stria near base, the ap- 

 parently ten-jointed antennae, the spines or teeth of the tibije, and the larger 

 head of the male, especially noticeable in cylindricus, and referred to his 

 correspondence with Colonel Casey, Mr. Chas. Liebeck and Mr. A. Mequignon, 

 who has written on the European species and recently described R. fenyesi 

 and R. groiivellei from the Pacific coast. He regretted that the description of 

 a few species from unique examples cast some doubt on their validity and said 



