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tion of the spiders with inflated abdomens by Mr. Emerton, still good after 

 forty years, excited his interest; and to Brunswick where the disposition of 

 Dr. Packard's library became known to him, part of it being in Bowdoin and 

 part in Brown University. 



In the discussion of his remarks by Messrs. Davis, Olsen and Engelhardt, 

 Mr. Leng stated that Mr. Schwarz has emphasized the importance of saving 

 cast skins of Coleopterous larvae, which often showed the mouth parts better 

 than alcoholic preparations. 



Mr. Dow spoke of the wholesale destruction of Cynthia cocoons by the 

 intense cold of last December. Messrs. Engelhardt, Bell and Woodruff cor- 

 roborated his statements, Mr. Engelhardt attributing the damage to wet and 

 cold combined. All agreed that the moth was scarce this season as a result. 



Mr. Engelhardt exhibited a living walking stick insect from Setaukct, 

 L. I., which Mr. Davis said might be Manomera blatchleyi, though in the 

 absence of the two sexes, identification remained doubtful. 



Dr. Bequaert exhibited nest of Bombus separatus and bumble bees there- 

 from, collected at Orient, L. I., from the inside of a log lying on the beach. 

 He referred to Putnam's paper in Proc. Essex Inst., Salem, Mass., 1S64, 

 " On the Habits of some species of Bumble Bees " and to later papers in the 

 Annals of Ent. Society of America. Many mites were found in the nest but 

 no other parasites. A specimen of the beetle Mesium gibbuni was found in 

 the nest later. The habit of the male of an allied Bombus to hover long about 

 the bushes was also mentioned. 



Mr. Bell exhibited collections of grasshoppers, cicads, etc., made during 

 the summer. 



Mr. Watson exhibited for Mr. Bell Hesperidae captured by the hemip- 

 teron Phymata erosa and read a note on butterfly collecting for the season 

 of 1 9 18 which will be printed in full. 



Mr. Davis read a note on Anacampsis by Dr. Forbes and one on Hapithus 

 by himself, which will also be printed in full. He also exhibited a number of 

 photographs of Pluramer's Island, donated by Mr. Clarence Shoemaker to the 

 Society's album. 



Mr. Woodruff spoke of his excursion to the Catskills, where he met 

 Messrs Shoemaker and Davis and made many captures of northern insects. 



Meeting of October 15. 



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

 8:15 P.M., on October 15, 1918, in the American Museum of Natural History, 

 President L. B. Woodrufl: in the chair, with seventeen members and one visi- 

 tor, present. 



The Treasurer reported that he had purchased two $100 Liberty Bonds 

 as instructed, Nos. 527199/200 and added same to the Permanent Fund. He 

 also reported that Dr. Joseph Bequaert and Wni. T. Davis had qualified as 

 life members by payment of $50 each. 



