100 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. v. 



Meeting of February 2, 1897 



Held at the American Museum of Natural History. 



Vice-President Love in the chair. Eleven members present. 



The Auction Committee reported that a number of insects had been donated to 

 the society by Messrs. Ottolenqui and Dyar. 



It was decided to appoint a committee of three to devise ways and means of in- 

 creasing the membership of the Society. 



Dr. Ottolenqui exhibited a series oi Ecpantheria scribonia showing the typical 

 form merging into the form denudata, and questioned the correctness of the variety, 

 saying it was only a worn specimen. Ur. Uyar replied by saying that in the true 

 denudata the scales did not hold very well and were sooner lost than in the typical 

 scribonia. He also showed a series of Nadata gibbosa, in some of which the white in 

 the fringes was entirely absent and in others only represented by one or two white 

 scales, thus agreeing with the description of dotibledoyi, and proving that it was a 

 synonym of gibbosa. He mentioned that Clisiocampa distria was very common and 

 destructive in New Hampshire the past summer. 



Dr. Dyar spoke on a winter trip to Miami, Fla. He described the country and 

 mentioned the species of Lepidoptera seen. Insects were not abundant, Imt two 

 especially interesting lepidopterous larvae were found ; the first was the larva of the 

 little black Euchromian Syntomedia minima, which has only recently been found in 

 Florida. The larvae occurred sparingly and were observed in all their stages. The 

 larva is red, tufted with dark grey haiis resembling somewhat some of the species of 

 Etichates, but with the warts of an Euchromian, not an Arctian. The second species 

 was discovered on the Mangrove while rowing up the Miami river. It is the larva 

 of Eupoeya slossonicc Pack., a moth whose family position has been in dispute. Dr. 

 Packard described the form as a "new species of Limacodes-Iike moth," while Dr. 

 Dyar had considered it Megalophygid. The larva proved to be a true Eucleid 

 closely allied to Fhobetron. Dr. Dyar described its most essential characters, show- 

 ing that it was in effect a green Fhobetron on which had been superimposed the 

 special adaptation of our Sisyi-osea texlula (inornata'). 



Mr. Doll showed an example of Catocala elda bred from a larva found on Long 

 Island, on silver poplar. He also showed a beautiful aberration of Anisota stigma 

 suffused with black, and one of Melitcea chalcedon, also a cross evidently between 

 Limenitis Ursula and disippiis. He also had several aberrations of Cecropia, one 

 of which had the transverse band crowded to the edge of the wings, making a unique 

 insect. 



Dr. Seifert exhibited some Lepidoptera showing the effects of heat and cold on 

 eggs and pupae. The Lunas which he showed had the eggs frozen twenty days. 

 The eggs of V. antiopa were kept frozen thirty days, the effect on the imagos was a 

 general loss of brightness in the males and a gain in the females. The October 

 brood were most affected. 



Meeting ok February 16, 1897. 



Held at the American Museum of Natural History. 

 Vice-President Love in the chair. Thirteen members present. 

 The resignation of Dr. Kretz was read and accepted. 



The Auction Committee reported that Mrs. Slosson and Mr. Doll had donated a 

 number of insects for the Journal fund, a list of which was read. 



