Dec, 1913-] Proceedings of the Society. 317 



Mr. Leng spoke of his visit to Cuba with Dr. Lutz, who was still on the 

 island, explaining the necessity of some acquaintance with its fauna in dealing 

 with that of Florida. Up to the time of his return, Cabanas and Esperanza 

 on the north coast had been visited to compare their mangrove swamps and 

 beaches with those of Florida ; the pine woods at Llanada, seven or eight 

 miles south of Pinar del Rio, for similar comparison with the pine fauna of 

 Florida ; and the more mountainous region near Vinales for general collecting. 

 Mr. Leng said the material gathered and the collections of Gundlach and 

 Poey would need careful study before any definite comparison could be made, 

 but it was already evident that striking resemblances mixed with equally 

 striking contrasts would be the result, especially in the western part of Cuba. 

 He also spoke of the kindness of Dr. Britton, of the Botanical Garden, in 

 indicating the places where Floridian trees would be found, and of Dr. Carlos 

 de la Torre, of Havana. 



Mr. Barber said he had spent July and August at Vienna, Va., near 

 Washington, and in constant communication with Mr. McAtee and other 

 Washington entomologists, visiting Plum Point, Plummer's Island and other 

 places of interest, incidentally adding four species of Hemiptera to the 

 Plummer's Island list. 



Mr. Sherman had also visited Vienna from September 15 to 25. 



Mr. Pollard spoke briefly of his trip to Twin Lakes, Conn., with Mr. J. 

 W. Angell. 



Dr. Forbes said he had devoted some time during the past summer to 

 dissections of the muscular system of caterpillars, following the neglected 

 work in 1760 of Leone, of The Hague. 



Mr. Shoemaker said he also had yielded to the lure of Washington, where 

 he spent eleven days in June and the same again in September. 



Mr. Dow said that editorial duties had consumed the greater part of his 

 time, bringing him into contact with entomologists rather than insects. He 

 gave the members news and messages from Colonel Casey, Professor Fall, 

 Dr. van Dyke, Carl Fuchs, Dr. Fenyes, Dr. Walther Horn, Mr. Bowditch 

 and others. 



Mr. Hall spoke of his endeavor to obtain a complete representation of the 

 variations of Safynts alope, and visits made in that connection to Long Island, 

 New Jersey, Adirondacks, White Mountains, Maine, etc. He also exhibited 

 Erebus odora from Sussex Co., N. J. 



Mr. Engelhardt described his three weeks visit to Stowe, Vt., and the 

 summit of Mt. Mansfield in June. He said the situation was most agreeable 

 and the catch of Lepidoptera by the use of acetylene light at night quite 

 extraordinary, 1,500 specimens having been caught in twelve nights. The 

 Labrador Tea was plentiful on the summit, and he had, therefore, hopes of 

 duplicating some of the captures made the year before in Labrador and 

 Newfoundland, but the collecting was not good on account of the high winds 

 prevailing, and his collecting was done in the valley. A remarkable feature 

 also was the abundance of Malachites anetts of which 100 specimens were 



