200 Journal New York Entomological Society, [^'o'- xxx. 



Mr. Davis exhibited 69 named forms of " Ants of Staten Island and 

 Vicinity " and read memoranda relating to collecting trips with Dr. Bequaert, 

 Louis H. Joutel and Prof. W. M. Wheeler, referring in passing to the latter's 

 naming a form with 8 or 9 hairs on its head as " davisi." 



Dr. Bequaert pointed out that of the 69 forms shown 



7 belong to Dolichoderinae 



4 belong to Ponerinse 



25 belong to Myrmecinae 



33 belong to Formicinae 



and that Lasins niger was not only the most abundant ant but perhaps the 

 commonest of all insects. Various other facts were discussed by the speakers, 

 Messrs. Davis and Bequaert, and by the members present, especially the 

 attraction of young poplar glands. 



Mr. Hall called attention to Argynnis nokomis collected by O. C. Poling, 

 Bishop, Inyo Co.. Cal., and the danger of its being exterminated by sheep 

 pastured in their breeding places. 



It was announced that the collection of Dr. A. Fenyes was in part 

 offered for sale. 



Mr. Leng spoke of a recent visit to Mr. Gustav Beyer, who has recently 

 acquired a collection of about 1,700 species of Exotic Buprestidae, 



Meeting of Feb. 7. 



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

 8:00 P.M. on Feb. 7, 1922, in the American Museum of Natural History, 

 Pres. John D. Sherman, Jr., in the chair, with 22 members and four visitors 

 present. 



Mr. Henry Bird read a paper, illustrated by specimens of the species 

 referred to and of their work, on " Some Adaptations of Indigenous Para- 

 sites to Introduced Pests." 



The trend of the paper is to show the effort nature stands ready to 

 make in restoring a proper balance, as shown where the European apple 

 pest, Hemerophila pariana, recently gaining a foot-hold near New York 

 City, is assailed by many native- parasites even though we have no generic 

 relative of this moth in our fauna. These are hymenopterous species, de- 

 veloping in the piipal stage, and for the season of 1921, at Rye, N. Y., their 

 activities and whatever other causes may have worked in unison were suffi- 

 cient to cause a decline in numbers of the final over the earlier broods. 

 Attention was also called, through information from Dr. Aldrich, to a 

 native Muscoid parasite, Masicera senilis, assailing the European Corn 

 Borer in New England and to the fact that this cosmopolitan fly is a 

 chief parasite of the Corn Borer in Europe. The wide dispersal of senilis 

 in this country had been worked out by the speaker in extended breed-' 

 ings of very different boring larvae. 



Mr. Weiss read a paper on " Insects of a Moist Woods in the New Jersey 

 Piedmont Plain," which will be printed elsewhere in full. The paper was il- 



