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Mr. Leng submitted a paper from Dr. David Sharp on " Studies in 

 Rhynchophora, VI, The New York Weevil," which was referred to the Pub- 

 lication Committee. 



Mr. Notman exhibited 1,336 specimens of Coleoptcra, representing 163 

 species, collected by himself August 22-30 at Cochrane, Ontario, a new set- 

 tlement and railroad station in the Timiskaming district, 911 ft. elevation, 

 and about 70 miles from Hudson Bay. The region had once been swampy 

 and heavily forested with balsam, larch and poplar (or birch on the sandy 

 ridges) but has been badly burned by the settlers. Large patches of the 

 original forest remain on either side of the road a half mile south of the 

 station ; and there are five small ponds nearby, so surrounded by swamps as 

 to be difficult of access. One very small pond yielded many waterbeetles and, 

 along its edges, also many Carabidje and Staphylinida:. North of the station 

 for three or four miles there was nothing but burned forest and settlers' 

 fields. Tiger beetles in four species were abundant on the roads and a patch 

 of decaying toadstools was very productive, but the sweeping was poor and 

 the beating, on account of dense swamps, almost impossible. The general 

 result, although the vegetation was distinctly more northern than that of the 

 Adirondacks, particularly in the absence of a varied deciduous forest was a 

 collection duplicating in great part, that made by Mr. Notman during several 

 recent years near Keene Valley, N. Y. Perhaps 10 per cent, of the species 

 were different, six seemed to be undescribed and five, viz. : Hydroporus 

 acutanguhis Thoms. (very near glabriusculus Aube), Colpodota aterrima Grav., 

 Atheta euryptera Steph. (previously reported from Pennsylvania and Cali- 

 fornia), Atheta nigritula Grav. (previously reported from Long Island, Penn- 

 sylvania, West Virginia and California), Olophrum consimilis Gyll., appeared 

 to be identical with European species, and except as reported by Bernhauer 

 (D. E. Z., 1906, p. 348, and 1907, p. 392) additions to our fauna. The entire 

 collection, comprising many very small species, was exquisitely mounted and 

 carefully identified and was greatly admired by the members. 



Mr. Harris exhibited Cicindelae collected in the White Mts., N. H., in- 

 cluding the following species, viz. : C. duodecitnguttata, common on roads ; 

 C. repanda, common on sandy patches ; C. se.vgitftata, rare on mountain 

 patches; C. purpurea^ not common on northern slopes but more so on south- 

 ern ; C. generosa, not common on gravel bank at Conway in June. A speci- 

 men taken at Guildhall, Vermont, was also shown as illustrating perhaps the 

 most northern locality for this species. C. punctulata, sparingly found late in 

 August. C. longilabris, often found with ancocisconensis ; less heavily marked 

 than Canadian specimens. C. tranquebarica, not as black as New Jersey 

 specimens, but less brilliant than var. horiconensis. C. limbalis, not actually 

 collected in New Hampshire, but known from Quebec and Vermont. C. 

 patruela, not actually collected in New Hampshire, but known from Burling- 

 ton, Vt. C. ancocisconensis, described from Conway in 1852 by T. W. Harris. 



In reference to the last, Mr. Harris said he had taken special pains to 



