Feb., 1921 Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 27 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 



Meeting of April 15, 1920. — Prof. C. F. C. Riley, Syracuse 

 University, was elected to membership. 



Verbal Communications. — Mr. Notman recorded the capture 

 of the dragonfly Cordylea shurtleffi Scudder, at Keene Valley, 

 Adirondacks, N. Y. This is a boreal species, known from New 

 Hampshire, Labrador and Alaska, and apparently rare in New 

 York State. 



Mr. Wm. T. Davis exhibited a male dragonfly, Boyeria grafiana 

 Williamson, taken at Fort Montgomery, N. Y., September 7, 

 1914, by Mr. F. M. Schott. It is an addition to the local list, 

 which now numbers 124 species of Odonata. He also showed a 

 living pupa of the seventeen-year Cicada, probably thirteen-year 

 race, found about 6 inches below the surface of the ground by 

 Mr. A. E. Brower, of Willard, Missouri. 



Long Island Records. — ^Mr. Burns showed the moth Brephos 

 infans Moschler taken at Rosedale, L. I., April 11. 



Scientific Programme. — Mr. Geo. P. Engelhardt gave a very 

 interesting and instructive lecture entitled " Through Newfound- 

 land to Labrador," illustrated with numerous lantern slides. It 

 related his experiences on the trip which he made to these regions 

 in July and August, 1912, together with Mr. C. W. Leng. The 

 physical, climatic, and biological features of the various regions 

 traversed were fully discussed. Some of the most interesting 

 Lepidoptera taken on the trip were exhibited. Among the forms 

 from Newfoundland may be mentioned: Faptfio brevicauda 

 Saunders, P. glaiicus canadensis Rotschild and Jordan, Rusticus 

 aster Edwards, and a peculiar form of (Eneis jutta Hiibner. In 

 Labrador were obtained Agriades aquilo Boisduval and ^nis 

 norma katadhin Newcomb. 



Meeting of May 13, 1920. — Verbal Communications. — Mr. 

 Wm. T. Davis exhibited some insects collected at Lakehurst, N. 

 J., May 31 to June 2, 1918. Among them was the moth, Py- 

 garctia abdominalis Grote, which came to light on the very warm 

 evening of June i, 1918. He called attention to the two other 

 New Jersey records of this species in the Bulletin of this 

 Society for June, 191 3, in connection with the description of 

 Pygarctia grossbecki Davis. During the same visit to Lakehurst, 

 several hundred examples of the wasp Polistes paUipes Lepeletier 

 were found dead beneath the loose bark of a pitch pine where 

 they had congregated on the approach of cold weather in the 

 preceding autumn. The specimiens examined proved to be 

 workers or females. 



