108 Journal New York Entomological Society, f^'^'- xxx. 



Mr. Olsen exhibited an entirely red specimen of Acanalonia bivittata. 

 an entirely blue Drachulacephala mollipes, the second New Jersey specimen 

 of Caresa albescens, and Archasia belfragei. 



Mr. Dickerson spoke of his local collecting trips with Mr. Bischoff 

 and of the excellence of some of the localities. 



Mr. Neilsen described his results in collecting Mantids. 



Mr. Tee-Van mentioned some of his successes in British Guiana, and 

 promised to speak at greater length at a subsequent meeting. 



Messrs. Mutchler, Quirsfeld and Angell spoke briefly. 



Mr. Shoemaker had been as usual very active with visits to Wayne Co., 

 Pa., in Jime, Washington in July and again in September. 140 traps were 

 planted along the Potomac River and Cabin John Run, and with the help 

 of Messrs. Davis and Nicolay, 33 Cychrus and countless other insects 

 were found in the molasses. Some of the Cychrus were found under 

 stones and logs. 



Dr. Lutz had made several trips to Interstate Park and Brown's 

 Mills, N. J., in his new camping, collecting automobile (of which photo- 

 graphs were shown), with a view of testing its capability for work in the 

 Rocky Mts. next summer. 



Mr. Woodruff, collecting near Litchfield, Conn., had added a few beetles 

 to the Conn, list and some new facts re Membracids. He mentioned also 

 with pleasure visits from Professor Wheeler and Wm. Beebe. 



Mr. Nicolay had also spent much of the summer in the field. Besides 

 being in Washington with Messrs. Shoemaker and Davis, he had sifted as- 

 siduously for Pselaphidas at Montclair and Avon and had made one exten- 

 sive trip to the summit of Mt. Washington with Mr. Mason of Philadelphia. 

 There in June Carabidae were abundant, but collecting otherwise had been 

 disappointing. 



Mr. Davis had preferred to visit warmer climates than Mt. Washington 

 and spoke of his visit to Colonel Robinson's home on the James River, 

 Virginia, and the trip to Washington, when he stayed with Clarence Shoe- 

 maker in Georgetown. One of the results of this trip is the note on 

 Katydids published in " Miscellaneous Notes " in which one of the results 

 of his nocturnal wanderings on Staten Island also appears. He exhibited 

 these Katydids and a female of the large black bot-fly Cuterebra buccata, 

 taken at Tottenville, Staten Island, June 3, 1921. The fly when first seen 

 was hovering about the low vegetation in a narrow lane. It flew away but 

 returned, and again hovered about the low plants, when it was captured. 

 He suggested that the insect might have been in the act of laying eggs in 

 a suitable spot frequented by rabbits. Those animals often return again 

 and again to the same place to feed, and he instanced a garden in Virginia 

 where they paid particular attention to one part of a row of beans. On 

 behalf of Mr. Edward J. Burns, he showed a female Cuterebra cuniculi col- 

 lected at Sand's Point on Long Island, July 2, 1921. In this instance the 

 fly was a little distance out on a meadow bordering the salt marsh. 



