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The President announced that they had become life members thereby. 



Mr. Ernest Neilson, c/o C. E. Olscn, Maspeth, N. Y., was elected an 

 active member. 



Mr. Fred M. Schott, 854 Bushwick Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y., was nominated 

 for membership by Mr. Burns, seconded by Mr. Dow. On motion by Mr. 

 Dow, the by-laws were suspended and Mr. Schott was immediately elected an 

 active member. 



Letters were read from A. S. Nicolay, referring to his life at Camp Upton, 

 and from H. H.Brehme, announcing the loss of his effects by the explosion 

 at Morgan, N. J. 



A note from Dr. Felt, referring to the introduction of a European 

 weevil, was referred to the Publication Committee. 



Mr. Leng read a paper on " The New Check List of Coleoptera," exhibit- 

 ing the manuscript and explaining the methods of compilation. He also re- 

 viewed the alterations in the Leconte classification that have been proposed 

 and distributed copies of the sequence of families that seemed desirable in 

 accordance with such of those alterations as appeared to be well founded. 



Mr. Notman exhibited a large box of beetles found at Moores', Clinton 

 Co., N. Y., 280 ft. elevation, and close to the Canadian border, saying that the 

 boreal element appeared to be less in evidence there than in the Adirondack's. " 



Mr. Hall exhibited butterflies from Sussex Co., N. J., found on May 26, 

 commenting upon the great numbers seen in that early part of the season. 

 One was new to the New Jersey list, viz. : Amblyscirtes sainoset Scudd. 



Mr. Barber exhibited a box of ground ginger from his home, in which a 

 large number of the drug store beetle, Sitodrepa panicea, had developed. He 

 also spoke of his collecting experiences in Virginia during August when the 

 hot, dry season proved unfavorable. 



Mr. Davis exhibited a portrait of our former president, Mr. C. F. Groth, 

 in "The Guide to Nature" for August, 1918, with an account of the last 

 meeting of the Agassiz chapter in which Mr. Groth was interested. He re- 

 called the meetings held about 1902 in the cellar of Mr. Miller's house, 141 E. 

 40th St., where Mr. Groth then lived. 



Mr. Davis also called attention to the humorous entomological references 

 in a pamphlet called the " War Garden Guyed." 



Mh Schott exhibited insects found at Rockaway Beach, October 12, in- 

 cluding Solubea pugnax and other Pentatomids and Lebia bivittata. 



Mr. Leng exhibited Bull. No. 14 of the Canadian Dept. of Agr., contain- 

 ing Dr. Swaine's " Canadian Bark Beetles " with a complete classification, 

 account of habits and abundant illuslrations of unusual merit, the latter being 

 by Mr. A. E. Kellett. 



Meeting of November 5. 



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

 8:15 P.M., on November 5, 1918, in the American Museum of Natural History, 

 Mr. E. L. Dickerson in the chair, with ten members present. 



