208 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. viii. 



Mr. Joutel exhibited a (cw [lieces of wood, showing the damages done by the 

 white ant. 



Mr. Scliaeffer spoke on some species of Cychrtis and stated that it was difficult to 

 separate the females of certain species. In a large series of Cychnis [andrewsii and 

 ri(ii)igsii) from North Carolina he said he was able to separate the males by the 

 structure of the anterior tarsi, but failed to find any constant characters to separate the 

 females. The form he took to be lii/I/i^sii agreed very well with the description of 

 this species, except in size ; it being of the same size, form and color as a)idrc7usji, 

 differing only by the narrow dilated front tarsi of the male. He also spoke on Lcbia 

 fiircata and vittata. He thought that they were one and the same species, there 

 being nothing in the descriptions of these two .species to sejxarate them, except the 

 different form of the sutural and lateral vitta;. A series of specimens from the museum 

 collection were shown with intermediate forms connecting the two species in question. 

 A number of L. depicta from Wyoming were also shown and which differ only from 

 some L.furcata by the entirely black legs. L. pectita ■ittxws to be very constant; 

 in all the specimens seen no variation was observed. 



Meeting of November 21, 1S99. 



Held at the American Museum of Natural History. 



President Love in the chair. Fifteen members and nine visitors present. 



Mr. Beutenmiiller exhibited a series of lantern slides of Lepidoptera and their 

 transformations, in their natural attitudes and called attention to the importance of 

 using the camera in the study of the habits of insects. About loo slides were shown. 



After discussion adjournment. 



Meeting of December 5, 1S99. 



Held at the American Museum of Natural History. 



President Love in the chair. Nine members and three visitors present. 



Mr. Beutenmiiller proposed Mr. W. P. Comstock for active membership. 



Mr. Kearfott called attention to a trap for catching Noctuids. He also exhibited 

 a box of rare Mexican Noctuids. Mrs. Slo.sson presented to the Society a lot of 

 Florida Lepidoptera, to be .sold for the lienefit of the Journal. A vote of thanks was 

 extended to Mrs. Slosson for the generous donation. 



Meeting of December 19, 1S99. 



Held at the American Museum of Natural History. 



President Love in the chair. Ten members and four visitors present. 



Mr. Comstock was elected an active member of the Society. 



Professor John B. Smith spoke on "Underground Insects" and the method of 

 studying them by means of plaster casts. The life-history of two bees was selected 

 and the digging habits shown in some detail. Collctes coDipacta appears in spring 

 and digs down from 24-40 inches before it makes a cell, another is started a few 

 inches higher up, and the lower one is filled up by the sand, taken out the upper. 

 A third and sometimes a fourth are made above that and all are filled up so that the 

 young bees must dig through from 23-40 inches of sand to get to the surface. Ango- 

 chlora humeralis makes clusters of cells and hatches out in midsummer, the females 

 only hibernating. Their borings extend sometimes over five feet below the surface. 



