Jan., '92] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 25 



Texas, Illinois and Indiana. He also exhibited a specimen of 

 Gomphus n(£vius from Castle Rock, Delaware County, Pa., 

 which has never before been taken in the vicinity of Phila- 

 delphia. 



Mr. Schwarz spoke of the abundance of dragonflies in Ari- 

 zona around the water which was obtained from artesian wells, 

 and wherever there was a little pool, of water it teemed with 

 insect life. He stated that at the top of the Grand Canon the 

 fauna was boreal and ended abruptly at the brink ; at the bot- 

 tom were large forests and a great deal of vegetation existed 

 and the fauna was tropical. The dragonflies seemed to be the 

 only insects flying from the bottom to the top of the canon, 

 which is about forty miles wide and one mile deep. 



Professor Smith stated that the species which he had re- 

 corded from New Jersey as Epicauta callosa was Epicauta 

 batesii. 



Mr. lyaurent stated that owing to the fact that the streets 

 and roads in the vicinity of Miami, Florida, were constructed 

 of the white coral formation that underlies this part of Florida, 

 if was very trying on the eyes when the sun shines, and to get 

 relief he generally wore smoked glasses while travelling on the 

 roads. He exhibited a large series of photographs which he 

 had taken around Miami, and showed the wood from which 

 he had raised specimens of Lagochirus araneiformis Linn., a 

 rare Cerambycid . 



Mr. Schwarz said he thought longicorns laid their eggs 

 singly, but recently received them in large clusters. He also 

 stated that in Arizona a party made a collection of micro-lepi- 

 doptera, and, not having the necessary small pins, they sub- 

 stituted the spines of a cactus which was growing in the vicin- 

 ity, he thought they might turn out to be better than insect 

 pins, because they do not corrode. 



Mr. Johnson exhibited specimens of Apocephalus pergandei, 

 the fly found in the ant's nest, and mentioned at the last meet- 

 ing. The ant proved to be Camponotiis ferrugiyiea. 



A resolution was passed and seconded to hold the minutes 

 over for publication until they had been read at the next meet- 

 ing, for further correction. Passed. Mr. Wenzel moved that 



