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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NEW YORK ENTOMO- 

 LOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Meeting of June i8th, 1895. 



Held at the American Museum of Natural History. President 

 Rev. J. L. Zabriskie in the chair. Twelve members present. 



Mr. Beutenmuller proposed for active membership Dr. G. Lang- 

 mann and Mr. David H. Ray, and for corresponding membership Mr. 

 F. H. Johnson. 



An invitation to join the Philadelphia, Newark and Brooklyn Ento- 

 mological Societies in a field meeting at Jamesburg, New Jersey, on 

 July 4th, was received and accepted with thanks. 



Mr. Beutenmuller read a paper "On Collecting at Watchogue 

 Staten Island," communicated by Mr. Wm. T. Davis. 



Mr. Johnson exhibited a piece of stone which he found over an ant 

 nest and which had been bored through by the ants, who used the 

 hole as one of the entrances to their nest. 



Mr. Faycn exhibited a gooseberry leaf, with the stalk partly eaten 

 through by Gymnetron teter, a weevil, living in the seed pods of the 

 Mullein. 



" A Copy of Comstock's Manual to the Study of Insects," was ex- 

 hibited and recommended to the members of the society. 



Mr. Zabriskie spoke on species of Coleophora living on Juncus, 

 which he said appeared in salt meadows near the sea shore of Long 

 Island. Adjournment. 



Meeting of September 17th, 1895. 



Held at the American Museum of Natural History. In absence of 

 the President Mr. Ottomar Dietz was elected chairman pro tern. Nine 

 members present. The treasurer's report was read and accepted. 



Dr. Langmann and David H. Ray were elected members of the 

 society and Mr. F. H. Johnson as a corresponding member. 



Notes on the summer's collecting were given by the members. 

 Mr. Dyar showed the larva of a Harrisina from Texas which had two 

 of the segments entirely black, thus differing from the eastern species 

 which has all the segments with yellow bands. He also exhibited the 

 larva and moth of Alypia langtoni from the White Mountains, N. H. — 

 Adjournment. 



