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and showed also some photographs of trips on Long Island with Messrs. 

 Notman and Davis. 



Mr. Barber exhibited local Tingidae collected by Messrs. Dickerson and 

 Weiss. 



Mr. Weiss showed four old pamphlets 

 Sprague's 1871 compilation of Randall's Species of Coleoptera. 

 Directions for preparing Bibliographical Record. Psyche, 1879. 

 Directions for the collection of Coleoptera by Geo. Dimmock, 1872. 

 Geo. Dimmock's Cat. of Coleop. & Lepid. 1871. 



Messrs. Hatch and Sherman, present as visitors, briefly addressed the 

 Society, which, after a general discussion of books and collecting trips, 

 adjourned. 



Meeting of M.w 2. 



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

 8:00 P.M. on May 2, 1922, in the American Museum of Natural History. 

 Vice-pres. Harry B. Weiss in the chair, with 15 members and one visitor 

 present. 



Previous to the opening of the meeting the members enjoyed refresh- 

 ments provided by Mr. Davis. 



Mr. Davis read greeting from Dr. Bequacrt dated Plymouth, April i6th, 

 and showed photographs of Messrs. Good, Sherman and Hatch, recent visitors 

 at meetings. 



On motion by Mr. Bird, the thanks of the Society were voted to Mr. 

 Davis for the repast provided earlier in the evening. 



Mr. Notman showed his collection of the genus Elaphrits, containing all 

 the eastern species. He also spoke at length of the Staphylinid genus Osorius, 

 exhibiting a collection from Paraguay, Mexico, West Indies, etc., partly bor- 

 rowed from the U. S. Nat. Museum, pointing out the tropical distribution of 

 most of the species, their structural characters and their fossorial adapta- 

 tions. He said that the material exhibited indicated 16 new species and 2 

 new genera. In the discussion that followed Mr. Nicolay added some details 

 of localities for Elaphnis. 



Mr. Mutchler having taken the chair, Mr. Weiss spoke of " Pontedera's 

 1718 Paper on Cicada" exhibiting photographic reproduction of the original 

 and tracing thereby the error of Jaeger and others as to the number of 

 years some species live under ground. This paper will be published in full. 



Mr. Weiss also called attention to newspaper stories comparing radio 

 and insects. 



Mr. Davis exhibited a Chinese cage for grasshoppers to be used in 

 providing live food for cage birds, given to him by Miss Taft of the New York 

 Times. 



Mr. Mutchler spoke of recent visitors at the American Museum of 

 Natural History, Mr. Fred Muir of Honolulu, on his way to England, to 



