Feb.,i9i6 Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 17 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE BROOKLYN ENTOMOLOGICAL 



SOCIETY. 



Meeting of April 15, 1915 : — Fourteen members present. Mr. Herman 

 Greenwald was elected to membership. Long Island records ; Tricrania 

 sanguinipennis Say, reported by Mr. Dow from Central Park; Tcenio- 

 campa rubescens, T. alia, Xylina unitnoda, X. antennata, X. bethunei, 

 Calocampa cineritia, C. curvimacula, Jodia rufago, Seopelosoma sidus, S. 

 tristigmata, all reported from the island by Mr. Engelhardt ; Mr. McElvaire 

 reported Oncognemis riparis at Northport. Mr. Olsen recorded Idiocerus 

 skurra at Huntington, and also Bruchomorpha oculata. 



Scientific programme : The Medico-Entomology of Pliny, by Mr. R. P. 

 Dow. Mr. E. Shoemaker showed a collection of Long Island insects, in- 

 cluding new records — Renia tilosalis Smith, Antiblemma inexacta Walker, 

 Auloniuni parallelopipedutn Say, A. tuberculatum Leconte, Soronia ulkei 

 Leconte, Lymexyon sericeum Harris, Elasmocerus terminatus Say, from 

 Rockaway and Malaga, Trogosita virescens from Rockaway Beach. 



Meeting of May 13 : — Eleven members and four visitors present. 



Long Island records : Cephidia textrionis, Wyandanch, by Mr. Engel- 

 hardt; Epinaptera amcricana, by Mr. Doll; Anthocharis genutia. Forest 

 Park, by Mr. Megner ; Carabus nemoraiis, the European form, was re- 

 ported by Mr. Davis from Staten Island, May 10, who also stated that it 

 had been reported from Newark, N. J., Bronx, N. Y., and Brooklyn ; Mr. 

 F. M. Schott was reported to have taken it about White Plains, New York. 



Programme : Mr. Olsen, " The Jassids of Long Island," to be published 

 later in this Bulletin. Mr. Dow concluded " The Medico-Entomology of 

 Pliny." Mr. Bueno exhibited a box of Heteroptera from British India, 

 and directed attention to their very marked and characteristic facies. 



Meeting of June 10: — Thirteen members and one visitor present. 



Long Island records : Mr. Olsen reported Carabus nemoraiis from Mas- 

 peth ; Mr. Pasch, Copris Carolina from Brooklyn ; Mr. Doll reported a 

 hermaphroditic Callosamia promethea, with upper side of right wing with 

 male markings and lower side female, taken at Flushing; Vanessa mil- 

 berti, from Wyandanch ; Mr. Weeks reported Arctia nais from Patchogue ; 

 Mr. Doll also reported Psaphidia thaxterianus Grote, from Wyandanch ; 

 Mr. Engelhardt referred to the tent caterpillars, Malacosoma americana 

 and Malacosoma disstria and their exceeding destructiveness on the Island. 

 On willow he had secured Homoglaea hircina and on the bloom Pachnobia 

 salicarum, Eucetia pudens and Catocala elonympha were also secured on 

 April at Merrick, L. I., where Tortricida testacea, Xanthoptera semiflava 

 and Dysterias abortivalia were also taken. 



Mr. Bueno showed a larva of Tenebriodes mauretanica which had been 

 found in a sealed package of epsom salt early in May. (N. B. — This 

 lived till late July without any food.) 



