234 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. xxvi. 



Mr. Woodruff spoke of his recent visits to Washington and Ithaca and 

 conveyed greetings to the members from Messrs. Schwarz, Barber, Knight, 

 Forbes, Needham, Kennedy and Funkhouser. 



Dr. Bequaert spoke of insects used as food by African natives, mentioning 

 especially caterpillars and termites as a regular diet, the latter usually sold in 

 the markets ; he spoke also of the extraordinary clouds of small midgets 

 (Corethra) observed at Lake Nyassa and also used as food and of the occa- 

 sional use of grasshoppers and longhorn larvse. The methods of capture and 

 preservation, mainly by smoking, and of cooking were described and the flavor 

 extolled. Termites were said to resemble in flavor lobster salad mixed how- 

 ever with sand if their wings had been imperfectly removed. 



Meeting of October i. 



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

 8:is P.M., October i, 1918, in the American Museum of Natural History, 

 President L. B. Woodruff in the chair, with eleven members and one visitor 

 present. 



The Librarian reported his completion of the segregation of the signa- 

 tures that are part of our stock of Journals. 



Mr. Watson moved the investment of $200 in Fourth Liberty Loan. 

 Carried. Mr. Davis and Dr. Bequaert signified their intention of becoming 

 life members, to partly meet such investment. 



Mr. Barber moved to add the bonds purchased under Mr. Watson's motion 

 to the Permanent Fund. Carried. 



Mr. Leng gave an account of a recent visit with Mr. Davis to Washing- 

 ton and conveyed the compliments to the Society of many of the entomologists 

 they met there, including Messrs. Schwarz, Barber, Fisher, Mann, Chittenden, 

 Caudell, Casey, Crawford ; also Popinoe and Wickham, who happened to be 

 visiting the National Museum at the same time. 



In a discussion of the desirability of numbering the species in the new 

 Check List, invited by Mr. Leng, the affirmative view appeared to prevail. 



Mr. Olsen exhibited Bruchiis calvus, which he had found abundant at 

 Wood's Hole, Mass., and its food plant Cytisus scoparhis, identified by Mr. 

 Davis. The plant is introduced from Europe and commonly known as broom. 

 Mr. Engelhardt spoke of a colony of the plant at Richmond Hill, L. I. Mr. 

 Leng mentioned that Dr. Morgan had also found the Bruchus at Wood's Hole. 



(In Kleine's paper on " Die Lariiden und Rhynchophoren und ihre 

 Nahrungspflanzen " (Ent. Bl., 1910, pp. 4-12) the European B. villosa Fab. 

 (atra Marsh and cisti Payk.) is said to live on Sarothamnus (Cytisus) 

 scoparius, and it is therefore possible that our species is identical and an 

 introduction.) 



Mr. Sherman spoke of his visits to Boston, where the hatching of beetles 

 from the trees in the bear group, prepared by Dr. Johnson and the preserva- 



