Americana 



VOL. IV. 



BROOKLYN, DECEMBER, 1888, 



NO. 9. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL CLUB 

 OF THE A. A. A. S. 



[Co.itinued from page 159.] 



Dr. Kellicoti commended the methods employed in breeding. 



Mr. Smith said he was specially interested in the methods employed 

 for securing eggs. 



Dr. Kellicott stated that he used earthen flower pots in rearing 

 insects. 



Mr. Fletcher mentioned the use of lamp chimneys as very con- 

 venient cages. 



Mr. E. A. Schwarz presented a paper on the Insect Fauna of 

 Southern Florida. 



THE INSECT FAUNA OF SEMITROPICAL FLORIDA WITH 

 SPECIAL REGARD TO THE COLEOPTERA. 



I3y E. a. Schwarz. 

 "Synopsis of the Hymenoptera of North America north of Mexico;'" 

 'Revised Catalogue of the diurnal Lepidoptera of America north of 

 Mexico ;" "Monograph of the Aphodiini of America north of Mexico"' — 

 such are a few samples of the titles of numerous works treating on North 

 American insects, the authors thereby intimating that the fauna of North 

 America represents on all sides a well limited area except along the 

 Mexican frontier, and that here it has been found convenient to sub- 

 stitute the political boundaries of the two countries in the absence of a 

 natural dividing line. I have not yet come across a similar work en- 

 titled : JMonograph or Catalogue of a certain family of insects of North 

 America north of Mexico and the West Indies, and it cannot be denied 

 that hitherto very little attention has been paid to the insect fauna of the 



