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his gratification at finding how many types had escaped the San Francisco 

 earthquake and fire. 



Mr. Dickerson said his summer had been spent in nursery inspection work 

 with Mr. Weiss. The abundance of plant lice in the early summer and of 

 caterpillars later had been features of the season. He had also spent some 

 time on Slide Mt. in the Big Indian Valley, Catskill Mts., finding good col- 

 lecting and comfortable quarters at Joslin House, Oliveria, N. Y. 



Mr. DeVyver said he had been occupied in making moving pictures to 

 show life history of bag worm, tussock moth, etc., and offered to exhibit them 

 at a future meeting. 



Mr. Davis exhibited a bound volume of the entomological writings of the 

 late John A. Grossbeck, outside of his work on mosquitoes ; also a series of 

 Satyrus alope, and contributed notes on Ccenoinyia ferruginea, Cicada hiero- 

 glyphica, Cicindela abdominalis, Holcaspis centricola and Rhodites gracilis, the 

 last having been collected by Mr. Woodruff. These will be printed in Miscel- 

 laneous Notes. 



Mr. Burns exhibited 19 cicadas which he had obtained after four hours' 

 labor in excavating a nest of Sphccius speciosiis at Fort Wadsworth, Staten 

 Island on August 18. The tunnel made by the wasp was about 2^ feet long 

 and there were eleven cells, eight of which contained two cicadas each. The 

 cicadas were Tibicen linnei and sayi, i6$5 and 3c?c^- 



Mr. Watson exhibited the larva of Acronycta funeralis Grote & Robinson, 

 found on Pntnns serotina at Washington Heights, New York City, August 13, 

 1917. He said the season in his experience had been two weeks late and 

 very poor for butterflies. 



Mr. Mtitchler had spent a part of his vacation at Bushncllville near 

 Shandaken, with poor results, on account of raiij. 



Mr. Nicolay exhibited recent accessions in Californian Buprestidse and 

 Cerambycidse received from -Mr. Grinnell and spoke of his collecting trips to 

 Lakehurst and Bulls Head with Mr. Woodruff, showing photographs. 



Mr. Leng exhibited specimens of the Chilean Ceroglossus darwini received 

 from Eduardo Varas Arangua and said that he had been too much occupied 

 during the summer with work on the new Check List of Coleoptera for ex- 

 tensive field work. 



Mr. Barber spoke of his visits to Virginia in August and to Yaphank, 

 where he said Camp Upton would eventually come to within half a mile of 

 Miss Weeks's house. He also reported satisfactory collecting. 



Meeting of October 16. 



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

 8:15 P. M., October 16, 1917, in the American Museum of Natural History; 

 President Harry G. Barber in the chair, with 20 members and three visitors 

 present. 



Dr. W. H. Wiegmann, of 436 East 5th St., was elected an active member. 



The Secretary submitted a statement regarding the Permanent Fund, to 

 be printed in the Journal. 



