18 Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society Vol. XI 



Programme: Mr. Dow spoke on Mr. J. Turner Brakeley and his won- 

 derful place at Lahaway, N. J. 



Meeting of October 14: — Seventeen members present and one visitor, 

 Mr. H. H. Knight, of Cornell, a specialist on Miridse. 



The programme was the usual informal report by members on the col- 

 lecting season. Mr. Franck reported catching Hepialus auratus in Sulli- 

 van County, New York ; Mr. Bueno recorded the interesting Tingid, Gar- 

 gaphia angulata, from White Plains, first record for the state ; Mr. Nicolay 

 reported the olive-green form of Cicindela sexguttata from Henryville 

 and C. patruela abundant at Mt. Pocono ; along the Potomac he had caught 

 Cychrus stenostomus, elevatus and shoemakeri; on the top of Storm King 

 Mountain, New York, he had found Cicindela purpurea. 



Mr. Shoemaker reported taking ten Cychrus canadensis near Winne- 

 saukee Lake, Ulster Co., N. Y. 



Mr. Schott recorded Calosoma sycophanta in Flatbush and on Fire 

 Island Beach; Cicindela consentanea from Wyandanch, April, and Cin- 

 gelia catenaria very abundant in Babylon on October 3. Mr. Doll re- 

 ported larvae of Papaipema speciossisima on golden rod. 



Mr. Engelhardt reported swarms of Anax Junius in a clearing in a wood 

 near Tangiers, L. I. ; from Yaphank, Cychrus elevatus, in an old and 

 abandoned cistern, and Myas cyanescens. 



Mr. Dow reported Catocala relicta from Flatbush and Arctia caia from 

 Sullivan Co. 



Mr. Olsen reported a catch of forty or fifty specimens of Pithanus 

 mccrkeli from Maspeth, a Palsearctic species heretofore unknown from 

 North America. Mr. Bueno reported this also for White Plains. Mr. 

 Olsen also recorded the Aphid Calypterus betulce from Betula .populifolia. 



Mr. Davis showed the Mirid Lygidea niendax, from Yaphank, L. I., 

 taken on July 26, 1908, first record from the island. 



November 11 meeting: — Fourteen members and one visitors present. 



Mr. Weeks exhibited a live Pdsimachus depressus from Yaphank; Mr. 

 Davis showed the gall of Callirhytis cornigera, usually to be found on 

 Quercus palustris, but this on Q. coccinea, from Massapequa, L. I., July 11. 



Programme : Mr. Bueno's paper on the Hemiptera Heteroptera of Yap- 

 hank was read in his absence, with exhibition of the rarer species there- 

 from, to be published later in the Bulletin. Mr. Dow showed a large 

 number of plaster casts of insect burrows, by the late Mr. Brakeley, the 

 originator of the method. 



December meeting :— Present twelve members and two visitors. Mr. 

 Howard L. Clark, of Providence, and Mr. Howard Notman, of Brook- 

 lyn, were elected to membership. 



Long Island records : Mr. Schott reported from Little Neck, L. I., 

 Cychrus elevatus on December 11, and also Carabus vinctus and C. 

 limbatus. 



