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In conclusion, I wish to say in extenuation of the many shortcom- 

 ings and omissions in my endeavor to cast some light in obscure 

 places, that in this work there are no guides. None have blazed a 

 way which one may follow. And if I have erred, it is the school 

 where the explorer learns, thot later he or another may avoid the same 

 pitfall. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE NEW YORK ENTO- 

 MOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Mf.etinc; ok April 7. 



Held at the American Museum of Natural History, Tuesday evening, April 7, 

 at 8 o'clock. The President and Secretary being absent the Vice-President, Mr. 

 Leng, presided and Mr. Charles Myers was elected Secretary pro tern. 



The following members were present : Messrs. Billings, Brues, Davis, Joutel, 

 Leng, Myers, O'Connor, Palm, Southwick, Bueno, Watson, Weeks and two visitors, 

 Miss Billings and Mr. Raymond Osborn. Reading of the minutes of the previous 

 meeting was necessarily omitted. 



Mr. Davis of the Field Committee reported that cards had been mailed to mem- 

 bers calling for an outing to Fort Lee, Sunday, April 19. 



Mr. O' Connor proposed Mr. Morgan Hebard, of Chestnijt Hill, Philadelphia, as 

 an active member of the Society. 



A communication from the New Era Printing Company regarding the entry of 

 the Journal as second class mail matter was referred to the Publication Committee. 

 Also a communication was read from Mr. Schaeffer, referring to the fact that he would 

 be out of the city for some time and Mr. Joutel was elected to fill the position of 

 Librarian during Mr. Schaeffer' s absence. 



Mr. Davis then presented a few remarks on the subject of "A New Cricket 

 {Apithes agitator Uhler) from the vicinity of New York." 



He stated that this cricket was described in 1864 by Uhler who wrote of it as 

 follows : " It inhabits grape vines and dense shrubbery near Baltimore and is found 

 fully developed about the middle of September." 



In the "Insects of New Jersey" it is recorded from Anglesea and Bay Side, 

 both in Cape May County. In these localities it was found in September. In 

 Scudder's Catalogue of the Orthoptera of the United States its habitat is given as 

 " Southern U. S. east of the Great Plains." On the 21st of last September a single 

 female of this species was found at Ward's Point, Tottenville, Staten Island, which is 

 the most northern locality so far reported. 



Mr. Joutel gave some notes on the " Food Habits of Goes pitlverulcnta.'" He 

 stated that his experience in breeding this species showed the small value of negative 

 evidence in that although he had always looked for the insect in beech, its recorded 

 food plant, he had only found it in iron- wood (blue beech) and so thought there 

 might have been an error in the determination of the food plant ; since then, however, 

 he has been informed by Mr. Laurent, of Philadelphia, that he had bred it from 



