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this nymph in 1885, under what he supposed to be Tachoftcryx thoreyi. He 

 also exhibited to the Society cxuvia of an undoubted nymph of the species in 

 question, which he had taken and reared the past summer at Litchfield, Conn. 



In the course of general comments with respect to the distribution of 

 various species of the Agrionidx, he particularly referred to Enallagiiia 

 pisciuarium Williamson, which has a very local distribution, of which a con- 

 siderable colony thrives at Lakehurst, N. J. He also called attention to the 

 comparatively brief period of the life of the imago of this species and of 

 Euallagma recitrvatnm, also found at Lakehurst, N. J., as recorded by Mr. 

 Davis in his original description, the period of flight of each at that locality 

 being substantially confined to the last three weeks of June. 



Mr. Davis said there were now 122 species in the Local List. 



Mr. Leng exhibited Gonotropis gibbosus Lee, collected on dead hemlock 

 at Peterborough, Ont., in July, by Mr. Frank R. Morris. 



Mr. Burns exhibited Miitilla occidcnlalis collected at Fort Wadsworth, 

 Staten Island, August 11, 1917, and commented upon its being apparently con- 

 fined to that part of the island. 



Mr. Davis exhibited a cartoon by Burrill illustrating the farmer's diffi- 

 culties in combating insect pests. 



Meeting of December 4. 



A regular meeting of the New York Entomological Society was held De- 

 cember 4, 1917, at 8:15 P. M., in the American Museum of Natural History,. 

 President Harry G. Barber in the chair, with 23 members and three visitors 

 present. 



Letters from Miss Rosa C. Palm, thanking the Society for its action 

 respecting the death of Charles Palm and enclosing his photograph, and froni. 

 the associates of the late Wm. D. Kearfott were received. 



Mr. Davis read an obituary notice of Chas. E. Sleight that he had pre- 

 pared for the Journal. 



Mr. Davis exhibited Bull. 391, C. U. Agl. Exp. Sta., containing "Revision 

 of Genus Lygus " by Harry H. Knight and subnaittcd for publication in the 

 Journal a " Key to subfamilies of Miridse " by the same author. 



Mr. Mutchler exhibited two boxes of Lycidse and described "Some Pe- 

 culiar Structures in West Indian Lycidas," consisting of processes projecting 

 from the abdomen of two undescribed species of Thonalmus, found in the 

 island of Montserrat by the late H. G. Hubbard. They occur only in the 

 female and only in the Montserrat species, issuing from the sides of the 

 third segment as pubescent peduncles and terminating in enlarged punctulate 

 lobes. The form of the lobe differs in the species. The margin of the second 

 segment in these species is emarginate laterally opposite the processes. Mr. 

 Mutchler also pointed out that throughout the genus Thonalmus a correspond- 

 ence between the characters of the species and their distribution can be 

 traced, those of the Greater Antilles being red and blue, the remainder 

 orange and blue in color, the described species of Jamaica having acuminate 



