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Mr. Dow spoke of Tenebrioides dubius occurring most commonly on apple, 

 but also on cherry, hickory, oak, maple, chestnut, will and elm, and of 

 Psenocerus supernotatus which he had hatched from twigs of Rhus glabra. 

 Two males hatched first and fought, the larger chewing the antennae off the 

 smaller. Later a female hatched, and when observed had gone to house- 

 keeping with the cripple. 



Mr. Leng spoke of Chlccnius leucoscelis and the species of Lophoglossus 

 and their local distribution. 



Mr. Angell spoke of the excellent collecting at Westwood, N. J., especially 

 for water beetles and Carabidae. The best locality was in a ditch cut for 

 drainage purposes, four or five feet deep and about 200 feet from the 

 Hackensack River and two miles northeast of the railroad station. There he 

 had taken 50 species. 



Mr. Sherman said he thought the ponds at Lakehurst, from which Mr. 

 Roberts and he had taken 94 species in three days collecting, would still hold 

 the record. 



Mr. Comstock said the locality West Mount, given in Smith's List for 

 some of Mr. Harvey J. Mitchell's records, was an error for Westwood. 



Mr. Comstock spoke of his visit on April 26 to Old Bridge and Spotswood, 

 where there was much yellow gravel and a modified pine barren region, and 

 where he found five male Anthocharis genutia and the food plant of the 

 species Arabis lyrata. 



Mr. Roberts said he had collected this species in the " Texas " section of 

 Spotswood, practically the same locality, 25 years ago. 



Mr. Davis exhibited in Riker mounts, small huckleberry bushes with the 

 silken sand grain covered tubes of Prionapteryx nebulifera attached, which he 

 had collected at Yaphank, May 18, 19 13. The tubes were about four inches 

 long and thicker than a lead pencil and led from an enlarged underground 

 chamber, where the larva was to be found, to the foliage. Among the records 

 for the species are Florida, Texas and Pine Barrens of New Jersey, so that 

 this Yaphank record extends the known range considerably northward. 



Mr. Davis also exhibited a living specimen of Coscinoptera dominicana, 

 with the cocoon from which it had recently emerged and a still unopened 

 (COCOon, both collected at Roselle Park, N. J., on April 13, in a nest of 

 Formica schaufussi under a log. The adults of this species are found from 

 May to July on the foliage of various plants, sumach (Chittenden), sourgum, 

 oak and wild grape (Blatchley), Quercus nana (Davis at Yaphank, May 18); 

 cocoons have been found at Newfoundland, N. J., under stones, with Formica 

 schaufussi as in the Roselle Park instance and emerged May 18. Professor 

 Wbeeler also mentions finding the cocoons at Bronxville, N. Y., April 19, 1908. 

 Dr. Lutz, reverting to the discussion on environment, quoted a passage 

 from Tutt's " Melanism and Melanochroism " in which it was pointed out that 

 " food had nothing to do with the peculiarity of the Rannoch fauna (of Scot- 

 land) or in a wider sense, the Alpine fauna," the general deduction of the 

 author being that the phenomena to which his book is devoted are correlated 

 with conditions of moisture. 



