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had a local list that included over 150 Geometridse, 100 diurnals and at least 

 150 new species including microlepidoptera. 



Mr. Leng read a paper on " Guides to the Literature on Coleoptera " which 

 was discussed by Mr. Schaeffer and Dr. Bequaert, the latter regretting that 

 no entomological review approached the complete character of the Botanische 

 Jahrbiicher. 



Mr. Hall exhibited a fungus-killed caterpillar. 



Mr. Davis alluded to Mr. Wright's approaching return to California and 

 expressed the deep regret of himself and many other members that he would 

 no longer be able to attend the meetings. 



Mr. Wright said he should nevertheless retain his membership and en- 

 deavor to keep in touch with the friends he had made in New York. 



Mr. Dow placed at the disposal of the members a box of specimens taken 

 at Claremont, N. H. 



Meeting of October 2. 



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

 October 2, 1917, at 8:15 P. M., in the American Museum of Natural History, 

 President Harry G. Barber in the chair, with 16 members and two visitors 

 present, including Mr. Williamson, of Royal British Flying Corps. 



The President called for summer experiences of members. 



Mr. Hall said that with Mr. Watson he had made an automobile tour in 

 July through Lakewood, Ocean City, Cape May, Wind Gap and Delaware 

 Water Gap ; and had also visited Nantucket, Marthas Vineyard and Gay Head, 

 where he had met Mr. Jones. The principal object was to take Satyrus 

 maritima, in which he had been successful, capturing 250 on Nantucket. 

 Butterflies were scarce on the New Jersey trip. 



Dr. Bequaert gave a preliminary account of the Cornell Biological Trans- 

 continental Automobile Trip in which he participated. The party started from 

 Ithaca with three automobiles and a trailer and covered about 6,000 miles 

 through New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South 

 Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico, Ari- 

 zona and California, camping and collecting en route. He expressed his 

 appreciation of the executive ability of Dr. J. Chester Bradley, who planned 

 the trip and carried on the details of its management, and to the mechanical 

 talent of Mr. H. H. Knight, which was at times needed in handling the cars, 

 as well as to the congenial companionship of his fellow members in the party. 

 The collecting in the wild country between Mobile and New Orleans, espe- 

 cially in the cypress (Taxodium) swamps near Jackson, Ala., and again in 

 southern Mississippi, was very good. Several weeks were spent in Arizona 

 near Tucson, Phoenix and Yuma with good results. Dr. Bequaert gave many 

 amusing instances of the untoward incidents of the long journey and closed 

 by expressing his admiration for San Diego, with its beautiful gardens and 

 parks, including the Torrey Pine Park, where Pinus torreyana is carefully 

 preserved. He mentioned also his meeting Dr. Van Duzee at Berkeley and 



