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known of several species, giving an interesting account of his success in 

 capturing the species named after him when he had learned its habits. The 

 Congo floor maggot, Anchmeromyia luteola, doomed to extinction as soon as 

 the African natives adopt the habit of sleeping in bed instead of on the 

 ground, the species infesting wart hogs, aard varies and other bare-skinned 

 animals, the screw worm fly, the species of Plormia, destructive to nestling 

 birds in California and Colorado, and other species living in wounds were 

 described. 



Dr. Demetrius Borodin, of Russia, gave a brief account of his work in 

 Economic Entomology. 



Mr. Davis spoke of the spiders he had found at Southern Pines, N. C, 

 in the pitcher plant, saying that in addition to a new species to be described 

 by Mr. Nathan Banks, that authority had identified among his captures three 

 males of Thanatidius tenuis Hentz, heretofore unknown, probably because 

 the male is short-lived. 



Mr. Davis also showed egg masses of the Oriental Mantid, Paratenodera 

 sinensis, and stated that he and Mr. Burns had recently found them very 

 numerous on the low bushes and vines on the sandy ground east of South 

 AVe., Mariners' Harbor, Staten Island, but had not been able to discover any 

 on the westerly side of the Avenue. Some, however, had been taken across 

 the road, and so it is hoped to extend the colony. He also showed twigs of 

 the Oriental Sycamore from Tompkinsville, Staten Island, in which were 

 great numbers of the scale, Lecaniuin nigrofasciatum, determined by Mr. 

 Harold Morrison, and ants from the green-house of the Brooklyn Botanical 

 Garden, which Prof. Wheeler had determined as Tetramorium guinense Fabr., 

 a common species of the tropics. 



Dr. Bequaert said the study of ants inhabiting botanical gardens was very 

 likely to yield interesting results from the chance of foreign species being 

 introduced with plants. 



Meeting of March i. 



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

 8 P.M., March i, 1921, in the American Museum of Natural History, Pres. 

 John D. Sherman, Jr., iii the chair, with 16 members, and two visitors present. 



Messrs. Alfred Liesiski and H. Herbert Johnson, Jr., nominated at pre- 

 vious meeting, were elected active members. 



Mr. Davis exhibited a Farmers Almanac showing rainy season and 

 temperature records in each State. 



Mr. Barber spoke " On the Genus Lygccus," illustrating his remarks, which 

 will be printed elsewhere, by blackboard drawings and specimens. 



Mr. Notman under the title " Some New Species of Carabidse " exhibited 

 a considerable collection received from A. B. Champlain, which included sev- 

 eral new species of Bembidion, Tachys, Celia<, Pseudomorpha, etc. Mr. Not- 

 man, with the help of blackboard drawings, explained the characters by which 

 the new species were recognized, and their relation to related species. 



