June, 1922.] Proceedings of the Society. 109 



Mr. Davis also presented a bound copy of his papers on Cicadas here- 

 tofore published in the Journal. 



Mr. Barber described his unusual experiences at Indian Lake, 23 miles 

 by stage from North Creek in the Adirondacks, where, at an elevation of 

 1,600 ft., in August he had found many rare Hemiptera hiding amid the 

 basal leaves of mullein. He promised to give more details at the next 

 meeting. 



Dr. Marchand described his success at Mendham, N. J., in sieving the 

 larvae of Chrysops and Tabanid flies from the mud of brooks and ponds 

 with a kitchen strainer and in subsequently rearing some adults. Later in 

 the summer he had observed some new facts in the oviposition of Mega- 

 rhyssa. 



Mr. Engelhardt had also some experiences with Megarhyssa to relate, 

 especially of males waiting for female to emerge. He spoke also of his 

 success in tracing early stages of clear-wings and of finding a new species 

 in flat white topped aster. He had made two auto trips to Vermont and 

 had found Hepialidae there ; and a trip to Washington during which he 

 visited Plummer's Island and found a rare species of Papaipema now in 

 the hands of Mr. Bird. Mr. Engelhardt described with enthusiasm the pack 

 rats of Plummer's Island and the persimmons of nearby Virginia. 



Mr. Ruckes described the eggs, i mm. long, of certain Tingitidae he 

 had found in the New Jersey pine barrens and the pushing off by the 

 emerging nymph of the lid at one end. 



Dr. Bequaert spoke of a visit to Boston where he found one of Prof. 

 Wheeler's students working out an interesting and novel method of studying 

 life history of Chrysid wasps. He showed also an illustration of the varia- 

 tions in the markings of the palm weevil, in the Guide to Nature, and a 

 Boston and Maine R. R. folder, in which illustrations of Mt. Washington 

 butterflies appeared with text by C. W. Johnson, who had given them to 

 him. Dr. Bequaert had also visited Washington and while there found on 

 Plummer's Island the fossorial wasp since described by Nathan Banks as 

 Entomognathus memorialis. Then he went to Ithaca and in company with 

 Prof. Bradley investigated the tract of wild land known as McLean Bogs, 

 which had been presented to Cornell University by the uncle of Mr. J. T. 

 Lloyd, and found among other interesting things a bright red ant, Aphano- 

 gaster tennesseensis, nesting in very moist stumps. 



Dr. Bequaert also contributed to the minutes newspaper clippings relat- 

 ing to a visitation of fleas in the city. 



Dr. Sturtevant said he would speak later of his year and a half in 

 California and mentioned only his discovery of Drosophila sigmoidea at 

 Fort Lee, N. J., on October 2. 



Mr. Bell had devoted his summer to collecting Hesperiidae on Long 

 Island. 



Mr. Hall had spent two weeks collecting butterflies in the Rocky Mts. 



