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Meeting of January 8. 



The annual meeting of the New York Entomological Society was held at 

 8.00 P. M., January 8, 1918, in the American Museum of Natural History. 

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

 visitors present. 



The Nominating Committee reported the following nominations for offi- 

 cers for 1918: President, Lewis B. Woodruff; Vice-President, Edward D. 

 Harris; Treasurer, William T. Davis; Secretary, Charles W. Leng ; Librarian, 

 Frank E. Watson; Curator, Andrew J. Mutchler; Executive Committee, R. P. 

 Dow, G. P. Engelhardt, H. B. Weiss, E. Shoemaker, H. Notman ; Publication 

 Committee, C. Schaeffer, F. E. Lutz, W. P. Comstock, John D. Sherman, Jr.; 

 Delegates to New York Academy, Wm. T. Davis. There being no further 

 nominations, the Secretary was instructed to cast an affirmative ballot for 

 the persons above named who were thereby elected. 



Mr. Notman exhibited nine boxes of Adirondack Carabid;e including 169 

 species, all, with one exception, iiersonally collected, mounted and identified, 

 and called attention to the following as being apparently peculiar to high alti- 

 tudes and elevations : 



Sphcprodcrus brcvoorti Lee. Maine, Canada, Lake Superior. 



Loricera cccriilescens Linn. No. Eur., No. Asia. 



Nebria sahlbergi Fisch. Alaska, Br. Col, Labrad., N. H. 



Nomius pygmcciis Dej. 



Bembidium nitidnni Kby. Can. to Pacific Coast. 



Bembidium scopulinnm Kby. Labrador, Canada, N. H., N. Eng., N. Y., 

 Mich., Man., Colo. 



Bembidium oblonguliDii Mann. Canada, Maine, N. H., Vt., Mass., Ohio, 

 Mich., Alaska. 



Patrobus septentrionis Dej. No. Eur. and Amer., Labr. 



Pterostichus pnncfatissinnis Rand. Maine, L. Sup., Nfld., Mass., Canada. 



Pterostichus (Cryobius) luidsonicus Lee. H. B. T., N. H., L. Sup. 

 (Alaska?). 



Pterostichus (Cryobius) falinis Mann. Alaska. 



Pterostichus {Cryobius) mandibularis Kby. Canada, Lat. 54. 



Amara arenaria Lee. Canada, Maine, N. H., Mass., L. Sup. 



Amara longula Zimm. Br. Col. to So. Cal. 



Amara pallipes Kby. Can., L. Sup., Mt. Wash., Mass., N. J., la., Wis. 



Amara polita Lee. L. Sup., Colo., Pa. 



Calathus advena Lee. Canada, Alaska. 



Platyuus deceptivus Lee. Nova Scotia, L. Sup. 



Platynus 4-punctatus Deg. Alaska. 



Miscodera arctica Payk. Scotland. Lapland, Newfoundland, Maine, Alaska. 



Harpalus spadiceus Dej. 



Harpalus sp. near laticeps Lee. 



Stenolophus scitulus Csy. Philadelphia. 



Tachycellus nigrinus Dej. Alaska. 



TachyceUus tibialis Kby. Canada. 



