114 JouRNAi, New York Entomological Society. [Voi. xi. 



Meeting of February 3, 1903. 



A regular meeting of the New York Entomological Society was held at the 

 American Museum of Natural History, Tuesday evening, at eight o'clock. President 

 Groth in the chair. Twenty-three members present. 



A communication was read from Mr. Joutel requesting the Society to endorse his 

 application for a grant from the Herman fund to enable him to study the white-ant 

 ( Tcrmcs JIavipes') . 



Mr. Watson proposed for active membership Dr. R. P". Call, and Mr. Barber 

 proposed Mr. George A. Billings. 



Mr. Love moved that a member of the Publication Committee be elected to take 

 the place of Mr. Bird, resigned. 



Mr. Kearfott nominated Dr. H. G. Dyar as a member of the Publication Com- 

 mittee and he was duly elected. 



The amendment to Article IV of the Constitution and By-laws (as proposed at 

 the last meeting) was read and on motion was carried. 



A vote of thanks was extended to Professor John B. Smith for his interesting lec- 

 ture on mosquitoes, delivered January 24. 



Dr. R. E. Call then delivered a lecture on insect life and insect collecting under- 

 ground, illustrated by slides, which showed the more interesting types obtained by 

 the lecturer during a period of six years in which the Mammoth Cave was explored 

 and surveyed. Dr. Call made running comments upon the different forms as they 

 were thrown upon the screen, dwelling particularly upon the peculiar adaptations of 

 the cave-inhabiting forms. He showed also a map of the cave and explained where 

 the best collecting was to be found. 



The President expressed the thanks of the Society to Dr. Call for his lecture. 



Mr. Watson then gave "Some Notes on Three of our Local Butterflies," and 

 exhibited specimens to illustrate his remarks. Two specimens of Panipliila attains 

 Edw., were taken at Lakewood, N. J., July 12, 1902, by Mr. Comstock and himself. 

 ' Two male specimens of Pamphila hivtacula G. and R., were captured at Greenwood 

 Lake Glens, N. J., on June 22, 1902. Also one male and three female specimens 

 oi Pamphila dion Edw., were taken at Jamesburg, N. J., the latter part of August, 

 1902. 



Mr. Davis stated that he had found P. dion at Lakehurst, N. J., July 27, and at 

 Brookeville, N. J. 



Mr. Schaeffer exhibited two new Scarabrcida: from Florida, on which he made 

 the following remarks : 



One of the localities given for Stratcgus juUanus is Florida, but all the speci- 

 mens he had seen in collections from that locality are undoubtedly distinct from Stra- 

 tegiis juliantis. The side margins of the prothorax meet the base in a continuous 

 curve, the horn on each side of the middle of the prothorax is more slender and 

 somewhat tapering to tip, not broad or laminiform as in julianus ; the gulere of 

 mandibles are also different ; the tibial ridges next to the apex in jiiliamcs are 

 Ijroadly rounded, while in the Florida specimens they are angulate with a strong 

 tooth on the outside ; the thorax is entirely smooth and not transversely wrinkled as 

 in julianus. All of these characters make it as unquestionably distinct from 

 julianus, and it seems to be nearly allied if not identical with one of the forms 



