April-June, 1920 Bulletin Brooklyn Entomological Society 87 



PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETY. 



Annual Meeting, January 15, 1920. — Officers for 1920 were 

 elected as follows : Mr. Wm. T. Davis, President ; Mr. J. R. de 

 la Torre-Bueno, Vice-President; Dr. J. Bequaert, Corresponding 

 and Recording Secretary; Mr. R. R. McElvare, Treasurer; Mr. 

 A. C. Weeks, Librarian; Mr. G. Franck, Curator; Mr. H. Not- 

 man. Delegate to Council of New York Academy of Sciences ; 

 Messrs. J. R. de la Torre-Bueno, G. P. Engelhardt, and J. Be- 

 quaert, Publication Committee. 



Messrs. E. F. McDevitt and Wm. Murphy, both of Brooklyn, 

 were elected to membership. 



Scientific Programme: Dr. J. Bequaert presented an account 

 of his entomological experiences in the Belgian Congo, illustrated 

 with lantern slides. 



Meeting of February 12, 1920. — Scientific Programme: Mr. A. 

 C. Weeks read a paper on " Movements and Migrations of In- 

 sects," discussed by the members present. 



Mr. Wm. T. Davis showed a male earwig, Doru lineare 

 (Eschscholtz), found on Staten Island in spinach, February 4, 

 1920. He stated that at this season of the year many insects are 

 imported from the south in green vegetables. He exhibited the 

 earwig, Labidura hidens (Olivier), found in a head of lettuce 

 on Staten Island, January, 1916; and two females Neoconocepha- 

 lus triops (Thunberg), one of which came from Middletown, 

 Orange Co., N. J., March, 1919, and the other from a head of 

 lettuce, Newark, N. J., March, 1917; this last was received from 

 Mr. Wm. P. Comstock. 



Meeting of March 11, 1920. — Local Records: Mr. Bueno read 

 a newspaper extract recording damage done in this vicinity by 

 termite? or white ants and comments thereon; this is discussed 

 by Messrs. Davis and Schaeffer. Mr. Wm. T. Davis showed 

 Pcectes pygmcBa Hiibnr. cohected at Lakehurst, N. J., June i, 

 1918 ; this moth has been reported from the southern States, and 

 this is the first New Jersey record. 



Scientific Programme: Dr. J. Bequaert reviewed F. X. Wil- 

 liams' " Studies on Philippine Wasps," recently published. ] 



Mr. Doll exhibited interesting butterflies from Texas ; also the ^ 

 following moths from New Mexico: Arachnis suni Neumoegen, 

 Hyperchiria zephyria Grote, and Coloradia pandora Blake. Mr. 

 Engelhardt showed a number of interesting moths from New 

 Hampshire, including Heliotropha obtusa Smith, Cossus center- 

 ensis Lintner, and Panthea acronyctoides Walker. 



J. Bequaert, Secy. 



