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Mr. Johnson had made an interesting observation on the behavior 

 of Polistes wasps, whose nest was destroyed late in the summer ; whereupon 

 they apparently despaired of completing another, and took possession of 

 a deserted nest of Vespa maculata. 



This prompted Mr. Engelhardt to tell of a Vespa crabro nest in a 

 shelter in Prospect Park, with an upper and lower entrance and containing 

 hundreds of these large wasps. Many unsuspecting persons use the seats in 

 the shelter and though their heads are only four or five feet from the nest, 

 no one has yet been stung. 



Mr. Davis said he believed Vespa could actually be tamed. He knew of 

 a nest near a window sash that was continually being raised and lowered 

 without annoyance to the wasps. 



Mr. Leng told of the re-discovery by Warren Knaus of Cicindela nevadica. 



Mr. Shermap spoke of the success of Chas. B. Wilson at Fairport, Iowa, 

 in breeding water beetles and of the great changes, due to increased tourist 

 travel, in the White Mts. where all the accommodations are constantly in 

 use and it is now not unusual to meet fifty people a day on the trails. 

 Mr. Sherman mentioned his acquisition of the correspondence of Philip R. 

 Uhler and of its extraordinary interest from the number of people who had 

 appealed to Uhler for entomological aid. 



Mr. A. G. Penrod, 516 West 175th St., exhibited, as a vistor, about 

 forty photographs of entomological subjects. They were all on 8 x 10 

 plates, taken by such skilful management of the light that every detail 

 was reproduced. 



Meeting of October 18. 



A regular meeting of the New York Entomological Society was held 

 on October 18, 1921, at 8 P.M., in the American Museum of Natural His- 

 tory, President John D. Sherman, Jr., in the chair, with 22 members 

 and 4 visitors present. 



Mr. Davis announced that the Brooklyn Museum had on exhibition in 

 the main hall Mr. Shoemaker's large picture of butterflies and moths, in 

 which hundreds of species are represented in color. The extraordinary 

 patience and skill which have contributed to produce this accurate piece 

 of work make its completion one of the entomological events of the year. 



Mr. Davis called attention also to the article by Mr. Weiss in The 

 Scientific Monthly on " Field Crop Yields in New Jersey from 1876 to 

 1919 " as an example of splendid statistical work, bringing out clearly the 

 increased productivity of New Jersey farms and the causes ; and to an 

 interesting article by P. M. Buck, Jr., entitled " In Praise of Ants," pub- 

 lished in the Independent and Weekly Review, from which he read some 

 entertaining selections. 



Mr. Barber read a paper " Collecting Hemiptera in the Adirondacks " 

 illustrated by several boxes of specimens. The locality was Sabael, on 

 Indian Lake, in Hamilton County, at elevations of 1,800 feet or more. Among 

 the basal leaves of mullein, Sphccrobiiis insignis, resembling a fairly large 



