90 Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society Vol. XI 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE BROOKLYN ENTOMOLOGICAL 



SOCIETY. 



Meeting of February ii, 1916. — Fifteen members and three visitors 

 present. The resignation of Mr. G. Beyer was accepted with the sincere 

 regrets of the Society; Mr. Frank E. Watson also resigned. Long Island 

 records : Bellura gortynides, three specimens from Long Island, ex Joutel 

 collection, were shown by Mr. G. P. Engelhardt. This species is said to 

 breed in cat tails; he had not been able to find it there, but he did find 

 Sphida ohliqua, which breed in pond-lily root-stocks, the former breeding 

 in pickerel weed. It had not been found in Long Island because not 

 sought for in the proper places. In the Middle States and Ohio the 

 larvae are reported to be used for fish bait. The presence of the insect in 

 the root-stocks can be detected by the oozy matter from the burrows. 

 It is rare around New York. Mr. Funaro reported Trechus borealis 

 from North Beach. 



Scientific Programme : Mr. Davis showed specimens of Long Island In- 

 sects from his last summer's captures, his remarks being reported else- 

 where in the Bulletin. Mr. R. P. Dow, for Mr. Alonzo Davis, of Pasa- 

 dena, California, read a paper on the Genus Pleocoma, which was pub- 

 lished in the Bulletin. Mr. Olsen showed a collection of Miridae and 

 made remarks on occurrence, to be published later. 



Meeting of March 16: Present thirteen members and four visitors. Mr. 

 B. Preston Clark was elected to membership. 



Scientific Programme: Mr. Ernest Shoemaker, under the head of Insects 

 Collected Last Summer, showed the more interesting of his captures in 

 Washington, D. C, and in the Catskill Mountains, N. Y. The Coleoptera 

 included such interesting species as Scaphinotus shoemakeri, Cychrus 

 ■stenostomus, Pasimachus depressus, Myas coracinus, Helluomorpha nigri- 

 pennis, Pterostichus purpuratus, Coptodera aerata, Chalcolepidius viridi- 

 pennis, Clerus ichneumoneus, Leptura americana, probably the first taken 

 in Washington; Odontota hornii, Odontonyx trivittis, Piesocorynus dispar, 

 Merinus laevis, Strongylium terminatum, Cychrus pyrsolepis, a very rare 

 form, determined by Mr. C. Schaeffer; and Athous scapularis; in Lepi- 

 doptera Catocala carissima was taken September 24, and Arctia virgo and 

 Cerura multiscripta. These were all taken in Washington. The principal 

 Catskill species were Smerinthus astarte, Cerafomia undulosa, Marumba 

 modesta and Limenitis arthemis. 



Mr. Bueno, speaking on The Flat Bugs (Aradidae) of Long Island, 

 showed ^4 out of the 30 species that should be found, but only 5 were 

 actual captures in the district, the rare Aradus shermani, the common and 

 widespread pine species we call A. cinnamomeus of Panzer, the uncommon 

 A. uniformis, picked up on the tide line in the wash-up on Fire Island 

 Beach; A. falleni and Neuroctenus simplex, very common under the bark 

 of dead oak saplings. 



