12 THE FLORIDA ENTOMOLOGIST 
Mr. Van Hyning. But then you know that Mr. Haddon made the 
fool blunder of placing them in the mail for the last lap of the 
journey, in spite of the fact that I had warned him and specifi- 
cally instructed him to send them by express. I knew of course 
that if they were sent in the usual envelopes and folded in the 
usual way that Mr. Van Hyning could not possibly get time to 
take care of them for years to come. 
“The last four weeks have been unusually prolific ones in the 
way of collecting moths at the electric light. Most of them are 
of medium or small size but a lot of them very fine and interest- 
ing. We have gotten a couple of larvae of very large and inter- 
esting Sphingidae. Lately the Heliconidae butterflies have be- 
come quite abundant. Clarissa got some rather interesting ones 
today. Yesterday I saw one specimen of the clear-winged Heli- 
conidae. I had no net with me so could not get him. The day be- 
fore I had seen two of that species at Ponte Nova. The chrysalis 
of one of these Heliconidae is of burnished silver, about as bright 
asa mirror. It takes only about a week from the time of pupation 
until the butterfly emerges. The other day I got fourteen of them 
from a single Sylaniuwm. For the last three or four weeks leaf- 
hoppers have become very abundant at the light. Apparently 
they are of quite a number of different species. At the beginning 
of the rainy season I made some sweepings over grass plots but 
caught practically no leaf hoppers.”’ 
P.-E. “ROLES: 
April 3, 1923. 
REPORTS OF MEETINGS OF THE SOCIETY 
Aprilss0) mg23. 
Society met in Language Hall with Vice President Rogers in 
the chair. Members present: Ayers, Berger, Beyer, Brown, 
Burger, Chaffin, Merrill, Mowry, Montgomery, O’Byrne, Rogers, 
Stirling, Trigg, Walker, Watson. Visitors, Jenkins, Link, and 
Heuse. 
Mr. Ayers gave the first paper on “Insect and Plant Disease 
Problems Occurring in the Field.” Among the insect problems 
mentioned by Mr. Ayers were the camphor scale, flower thrips, 
celery leaf-tyer, and garden flea hopper. Spraying was done 
for the control of thrips. Poisoned bran bait moistened with 
nitro-benzine was used with success on the leaf-tyer. Calcium 
cyanide dust was also used for control of the leaf-tyer, as well 
as the garden flea hopper. It was thorough and effective in its 
control of the latter but not the former. 
