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With so many specimens about, some just freshly emerged, 

 it was disappointing and baffling that nothing could be learned 

 concerning the foodplant and larval habits of the insect. The 

 larvae, most probably, are borers in roots at considerable depth 

 below the ground, yet in spite of a most diligent search nothing 

 could be found to corroborate this belief. 



Meeting of November 13, igig.— Long Island Records: Mr. 

 Doll reported the capture of Haploa clymene Brown at Sayville, 

 Long Island, on July 24, 1919; also that of Atteva aurea Fitch 

 at Newtown, Long Island, the larva of this moth feeding on 

 Ailanthus. 



Scientific Programme: Mr. J. R. de la Torre-Bueno read two 

 communications illustrated with specimens; " Hemiptera in 

 Beach Washup " and " Hemiptera Collected at Ithaca, N. Y.," 

 which will appear elsewhere in this Bulletin. 



Meeting of December 11, 1^1^.— Long Island Records: Mr. 

 W. T. Davis exhibited Merolonche dolli B. & McD., taken by 

 him at Lakehurst, N. J., thus far known only from Long Island; 

 also Apantesis anna Grote, bred from a caterpillar collected on 

 Staten Island ; and Cryptocephalus binominis Newm., from Yap- 

 hank, Long Island. 



Scientific Programme: " Faunal regions in Nova Scotia " was 

 the subject of an address by Mr. Engelhardt, who discussed his 

 observations and experiences on two visits to this province, one 

 in the summer of 191 2 to the northern part including Cape 

 Breton and the other in 191 9 to the Atlantic coast regions, the 

 interior, and to the Minas Basin. He said that with no high 

 mountain ranges and a climate subject to moderation, due to 

 the insular position of the province, faunal zones in Nova Scotia 

 are not sharply defined, but may be recognized as three — boreal, 

 northern and temperate. 



The boreal zone, characterized by extensive sphagnum bogs 

 and dense woods of stunted spruce and tamarack, occupies a 

 narrow belt closely following the rocky and often precipitous 

 coast. With an abundance of orchids, cotton grasses, Labrador 

 tea and in a general appearance much like bogs in Newfound- 

 land, one is led to expect also a representation of boreal insects, 

 such for example as butterflies of the genus CEneis. That these 

 are absent can be explained more easily as due to geographical 

 limitations, rather than the lack of a favorable habitat. Eury- 

 mus interior was much more common in the coastal belt, than 

 inland; otherwise the insect fauna proved more limited, but not 

 different from that of the northern zone. Interesting and 

 numerous forms of Noctuidse and Geometridse were taken at 

 sugar and light at night. 



