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northward trend of more southern and austral species could be explained on 

 the ground of a north and south cleft, which give rise to so-called " warm 

 pockets." Several strictly boreal forms were mentioned and others referred 

 to which were more southern in their occurrence. 



Mr. Nicolay exhibited a part of his collection of exotic Buprestidae com- 

 prising the brilliant Julodini of southern Europe, Asia, Africa and Malay 

 Archipelago. 



Mr. Leng called attention to an article in " Science " of November 9 by 

 Ralph C. Benedict, establishing again Tiucola bisellicla as the common clothes 

 moth of the vicinity, and giving results of treatment in storage warehouses; 

 also to Charles Dury's " Synopsis of Cisidse " in Journal Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist., 

 XXII, No. 2. 



Meeting of December 18. 



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

 December 18, 1917, at 8:00 P. M., in the American Museum of Natural His- 

 tory, President Harry G. Barber in the chair, with twenty members and four 

 visitors, including Lieut. W. J. Chamberlin, present. 



Mr. C. William Beebe, N. Y. Zoological Park, was elected an active 

 member. 



The date of both January meetings was, on motion, seconded arid carried, 

 postponed for one week each. 



The President appointed as a Nominating Committee, Messrs. Dickerson, 

 Watson and Sherman. 



Mr. C. H. Richardson read a paper " Comments on the Choice of Food by 

 Insects " in which the observed facts were summarized and analyzed. Dur- 

 ing the discussion that followed Mr. Richardson said that in Nevada he had 

 watched large Cicadas, start from the top of a sagebrush and an Asilid fly, 

 evidently prompted by the movement, start out and catch them ; but Mr. Davis 

 objected that in his wide experience in Cicada hunting he had never had 

 similar experience, the Cicada Killer in the East being guided neither by 

 sound or movement. 



Dr. Bequaert, with the aid of blackboard tables and several boxes of 

 specimens, offered " Some Remarks on the Distribution of Wasps " which will 

 be printed in full in the Museum Bulletin. 



Mr. Shoemaker read a paper on " Collecting in Big Indian Valley " illus- 

 trated by several boxes of the insects he caught, among which were so many 

 of northern distribution that Mr. Sherman said they looked like the wash-up 

 on the shores of Lake Superior; Mr. Shoemaker said in part that from Big 

 Indian Station on the D. & H. R. R. a road follows the valley to and beyond 

 Slide Mt., 4,200 ft. high, with some of the highest and wildest mountains of 

 the Catskill region rising on either side. He spent ten days in 1915 and the 

 week between July i and July 7, 19 17, at Johnson's farmhouse on this road, 

 collecting principally on the flowering shrubs by the roadside. The first trip 



