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entries in Mr. Davis's journal of flights observed on Staten Island. The 

 enormous numbers of monarch butterflies congregated in limited areas, 10,000 

 or more in some instances, were mentioned by Messrs. Dow and Olsen. Mr. 

 Davis noted that the eastward migrating species like C. eubule breed south- 

 ward, while the westward moving species like A. ple.vippus, breed on Long 

 Island and northward. He stated that A. plexippus does not hibernate on 

 Staten Island though much worn specimens occur there in May. 



His latest date for this species was November 25, 1894, one found at 

 Tottenville, frozen to death. 



Instances of unusual flights of many other species of Lepidoptera and 

 Odonota were recalled and a number of explanations were offered ; Dr. 

 Bequaert mentioned similar flights observed in Africa where the forest makes 

 the observation more difiiicult. Prof. Wright told of what he had noticed in 

 southern California where the collecting was good at the end of a wharf 2^2 

 miles out at sea ; Mr. Bird spoke of spring migrations across the Sound ; Mr. 

 Watson recorded larvae of C. eubule found near Princeton on Cassia inary- 

 landica; Mr. Davis said C. eubule bred in numbers along the James River in 

 Virginia and that the species reached Staten Island in its northward flight 

 between September 15 and 20. Mr. Shannon tqld of having marked 1,000 

 A. plexippus by a peculiar cut in the wing in the hope of ascertaining thereby 

 the extent of their flight. 



Mr. Davis, referring to unusual appearances of hibernating butterflies 

 said that it was in the latter part of March, 1907, when owing to the very 

 warm weather all of the hibernating butterflies came out together. Pyrameis 

 atalanta and P. hunt era usually are later about waking up than some of the 

 others. Anax Junius hatched out or emerged at the same time. Later we had 

 cold weather. 



Mr. Davis, under the title " Interesting Insects from Staten Island," read 

 a paper on Ammodonus fossor, which will be printed in full, and exhibited 

 several boxes, illustrating among other things, dragon flies, cicadas and nut- 

 weevils, drowned and washed up on Rockaway beach ; Cicindela dorsalis 

 caught at Long Beach, L. I., on September 21 ; his collection of Vespa as 

 named by Dr. Love and Dr. Bequaert, including nests of V. crabro and V. 

 communis made from live wood, and nests of V. maculata and V. diabolica 

 made from dead wood ; his remarks on the food of wasps elicited some dis- 

 cussion by which it appeared that while Microbembyx may use parts of dead 

 insects, the Bembicidae generally confine themselves to living insects. 



Mr. Davis also showed ghost crabs from Old Point Comfort and Long 

 Island, saying that they live several years in the south and attain great size, 

 but apparently do not reach sexual maturity on Long Island, where they are 

 always much smaller. 



Mr. Nicolay exhibited Buprestis connexa, collected in the Blue Moun- 

 tains, Oregon, by W. Chamberlain, August 6, 1914, on Pinus ponderosa. 



