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Meeting of March 21. 



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

 March 21, 1922, at 8 P.M., in the American Museum of Natural History. 

 Pros. John D. Sherman, Jr., in the chair, with 16 members present. 



Dr. Lutz reported his visit to Ithaca, which incidentally involved discus- 

 sion of New York State List of Insects. 



Mr. Barber exhibited a box of Hemiptera-Heteroptera collected by the 

 Iowa State University Expedition to the West Indian Islands of Antigua and 

 Barbadoes in the summer of 1918. The following families only were repre- 

 sented : Coreidae, Lygxidae, Pyrrhocoridse, Reduviidae and Tingidse. Some 

 of the species were represented by long series. 



In his remarks concerning the twenty-one species represented, he spoke 

 of the geographical range of each ; mentioning the fact that the far greater 

 number, 13, had a very wide range, most of them extending from South 

 America to the southern United States. Only five were apparently endemic 

 to the West Indies. He also spoke of the great preponderance of South 

 American forms in the Lesser Antilles and noted some of the probable causes 

 of their appearance there. 



In the discussion which followed. Dr. Lutz, Dr. Bequaert. Messrs. Barber, 

 Mutchler, Davis and Leng commented on the high state of cultivation in 

 Barbados and the element of human introduction of sugar, cotton, banana, 

 etc., as being important in considering West Indian distribution problems, 

 especially where plants were transported with balls of earth attached. 



Mr. Weiss having taken the chair, Mr. Sherman exhibited a 12-page 

 pamphlet, hitherto overlooked by bibliographers, by Major John Leconte. 

 entitled "List of the Coleopterous Insects of Georgia," published in 1849 as 

 part of a volume of White's " Statistics of Georgia." The list enumerates 

 1,206 species, comparing therefore favorably with many lists in other depart- 

 ments of zoology, which have been similarly o\crlooked, and is a remarkable 

 instance of the difficulty of obtaining a complete history of past events. 



Mr. Davis exhibited " Some Insects from Virginia " showing five boxes 

 of Orthoptera, 76 species, of which a list will be published later, and one 

 box of miscellaneous insects. His remarks on his experiences in collecting 

 them covered the songs of many, the preservation of their colors and methods 

 of collecting. 



For the benefit of those desiring Russian correspondents, the address of 

 the Permanent Bureau of all Russian Entomologists was recorded as Litayny, 

 37/39. Room 59, Petrograd, Acting President, Prof. N. Bogdanovkatzkov. 



Meeting of April 4. 



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

 8 P.M., on April 4, 1922, in the American Museum of Natural History; Pres. 

 John D. Sherman, Jr., in the chair, with 19 members and one visitor present. 



Mr. Davis reported injury to Mrs. Slosson from a fall, resulting in a 

 broken rib. He also exhibited a bound volume of Henry Bird's papers. 



