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this year, on July i, will long be remembered, for only a few minutes after 

 opening the umbrella a couple of sharp whacks at a flowering tree brought no 

 less than four Anthophilax, one of which was nearly black, into the umbrella 

 besides a number of other beetles, elaters, longhorns, etc. Mr. Shoemaker 

 continued " I will not try to describe my feelings and anxiety to grab them 

 all at once, for all of you have doubtless had the same experience — suffice 

 it to say that not one of the four escaped me ; that trip decided my method of 

 collecting for the entire week and, with the exception of two dozen jars that 

 I planted for Cychrus (which yielded about 20 canadensis and one fiduits), 

 the daytime was spent beating into the umbrella, the nights in sugaring and 

 light collecting." 



Mr. Dickerson corroborated the excellence of the region which offered 

 the best opportunity for collecting northern species near New York, and Mr. 

 Davis humorously objected that few, if any of us, had experienced the ex- 

 citement of seeing four live Anthophilax at once. 



Mr. Davis exhibited two lots of Cicadas. From Dulzuras, San Diego Co., 

 California, Professor Wm. S. Wright had sent his many specimens of 

 Okanagana vanduzeci. with varieties consobrina and californica, all collected 

 in June, 191 7. O. californica has often been considered a distinct species, but 

 is probably but a variety of vandiiseei, as first suggested by Mr. Van Duzee. 

 Twenty specimens of Tibicinoides cuprosparsa and three Clidophleps distanti 

 were also collected in June at Dulzura by Professor Wright. 



The second lot of Cicadas were received from Mr. Morgan Hebard and 

 consisted of nine species, among them the beautiful Ugada nutti from Africa. 

 Of American species Tibicen rcsouans was represented by 22 individuals, 

 collected at Indian Rock Beach, Pinellas Co., Florida, September 17, 1917, 

 by Mr. Hebard and Mr. Rehn, who found the insects in great numbers in a 

 grove of small oaks. The males were in full song and the noise produced was 

 considerable. Owing to their fresh condition the specimens were very beau- 

 tiful and the pruinose spots on pronotum and tergum were present and 

 conspicuous. 



Mr. Dow read a paper criticizing the methods of publication employed 

 by the owners of the " Lepidopterist " which will be published elsewhere. 



Lieut. Chamberlain, upon invitation by the President, spoke of collecting 

 Buprestis connexa in the Blue Mountains of eastern Oregon and northern 

 California, always in the vicinity of yellow pine, once by actually cutting it 

 out of the wood. Buprestis laiita appeared to have several host plants but 

 cedar was surely one. 



In reply to a question by Mr. Dow, Lieut. Chamberlin said that his 

 personal experience in collecting Trachykele was limited to three specimens, 

 but from Mr. Hopping's information and other sources, he believed Incense 

 Cedar and Redwood were its food plants. 



Mr. Sherman said he learned by letter from Col. Casey that no further 

 "Memoirs on the Coleoptera " would be published until the fall of 1918. 



