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In reply to a question, Dr. Bequaert said the wasps of temperate climes . 

 were less unkind to man than those he had studied in the tropics, so that he 

 had found it possible to pursue his investigations without being stung very 

 much, and that tnaculata was less liable to sting than other species. 



Dr. Bequaert also exhibited Volucella fasciata, bred from Opuntia leaves, 

 and Methoca stygia Say 5(1^ = bicolor Say) . 



Mr. Bird exhibited a wasp attached to a bare golden rod stem, as he 

 had observed it sleeping, and labelled " Ammophila pictipennis in the arms 

 of Morpheus." 



Mr. Barber read a paper on " Interesting Hemiptera taken in Virginia in 

 19 16," illustrated by specimens, in which he referred to his visits to Vienna, 

 Va., Great Falls, Va., Chesapeake Beach, Md., Glen Falls and Washington, 

 D. C., in part with Mr. Otto Heidemann, and to the wealth of rare species 

 found there, due to its more southern latitude, the extent of wild forest land, 

 the migration of species eastward via Potomac river and northward via 

 Piedmont plateau and Atlantic coastal plain. 



Mr. Mutchler exhibited a specimen of the longhorn beetle Chlorophorus 

 annularis Fab., known from India, Java, Sumatra, and Borneo, found by AV. 

 S. Blatchley at Dunedin, Fla. He also exhibited for Mr. Weiss, Acypotheus 

 orchivora Blackb., a weevil found under glass in New Jersey attacking stalks 

 of Dendrobium sp. and Vincetoxicum japonicum as an insect catching plant 

 with mosquitoes, flies and moths caught in its flowers. 



Meeting of December 5. 



A regular meeting of the New York Entomological Society was held 

 December 5, 1916, at 8:15 P. M., in the American Museum of Natural His- 

 tory, President Harry G. Barber in the chair, with 23 members and eight 

 visitors, including Dr. M. Garcia-Banus, of the Rockefeller Institute, present. 



The Curator reported further work on the Local Collection and announced 

 the subject for the next Saturday afternoon meeting, the family Buprestidse. 



The following members were elected by ballot cast by the Secretary, 

 Messrs. Burns, Bequaert, Richardson. 



The death of Mr. Otto Heidemann was referred to with regret by Messrs. 

 Davis, Olsen and the President. 



The Secretary exhibited Vol. i. No. i, of a new serial, The Lepidopterist, 

 and the advertisement of a new maker of pin labels. 



Mr. Shannon read a paper on "Autumn Migrations of Butterflies on 

 Long Island," in which he gave precise data from personal observation of a 

 strong westward movement of several species, among which the monarch 

 'outterfly (Anosia plextppus), was conspicuous, and an eastward movement of 

 a few others, including Callidryas eubule. The paper will be published in full 

 elsewhere ; it elicited prolonged discussion in which Dr. Forbes, Dr. Bequaert 

 and Messrs. Davis, Dow, Engelhardt, Wright, Olsen, Comstock, Watson and 

 Bird took part. Mr. Shannon's facts were corroborated by the observations 

 of Mr. Dow on the water between Long Island and Staten Island and by 



