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of the leaves or otherwise make use of them. Three specimens of the moth 

 Exyra semicrocea Guenee, the larvae of which feed on the leaves, were found 

 in those of 5". rubra on June 12th, and the next day a like number were dis- 

 covered in the leaves of 5". flava. Seven specimens of Exyra ridingsii Riley 

 were found in the leaves of S. flava, while of Exyra rolandiana Grote, nine 

 were collected in the leaves of S. flava and one in S. rubra at a locality sev- 

 eral miles distant. Also several nests of the wasp Isodontia harrisi were 

 found in both green or dead leaves of rubra and in a dead leaf of flava. 

 The nests were stored by the mother wasp with nymphs of Ainblycorypha, 

 Neoconocephalus and Orchelimum or Conocephalus. In one instance there 

 was a small colony of ants, Dolichoderus plagiatus pustulatus Mayr., in a leaf 

 of flava below and separated from that of the wasp occupying the same dead 

 leaf. Likewise a species of spider was found not uncommonly in many of 

 the leaves, in which they' had spun webs. This spider is to be described by 

 Mr. Nathan Banks. 



Among other insects exhibited from Southern Pines was a specimen of 

 Apantesis placentia Smith and Abbot. The moth was figured by the describers 

 who regarded it as an uncommon insect. They state that the caterpillar is 

 a general feeder. 



Mr. Gaudin exhibited part of the beetles he had found in Montana, where, 

 near Philipsburg, he had seen 300 buprestids and longhorns ovipositing on a 

 recently built line fence. One misguided female mistaking a stone drill core 

 for a part of the fence was trying to deposit an egg in it also. 



Meeting of Feb. 15. 



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

 8 P.M. on February 15, 1921, in the American Museum of Natural History, 

 Pres. John D. Sherman, Jr., in the chair, with 16 members and four visitors 

 present. 



Mr. Angell proposed for active membership : 



Mr. Alfred Lesieski, 775 Forest Ave., Bronx. 



Mr. Davis proposed for active membership : 

 Mr. H. Herbert Johnson, Jr., Box 2. Dept. of Zoology, Columbia University. 



Mr. Davis read letters from absent members. Dr. H. H. Knight and Dr. 

 A. H. Sturtevant, the latter giving an account of the flourishing entomological 

 department in Stanford University. 



Mr. Olsen read a paper " Studies in the genus Cicadella," illustrated by 

 specimens, which will be printed in full. 



Dr. Bequaert, under the title " Critical Remarks on Certain Genera of Cal- 

 liphorine Flies," reviewed the " Revision des Muscidas Testaceas " by J. M. 

 R. Surcouf in Nouv. Arch, du Mus. d'h.n., Paris, Vol. VI, 19 14 (published in 

 Dec, 1919), with four plates drawn by L. Guyon ; and exhibited specimens 

 collected by himself in Africa. He described the life history as far as 



