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Mr. Bueno mentioned having found Phytocoris buenoi Knight 

 on Norway spruce (Picea abies) at White Plains, N. Y. ; he also 

 spo'ke of his stay at Cold Spring . Harbor, Long Island, where 

 he found Cymus breviceps Stal on sedges, this bug being new to 

 New York State, in the same locality. (Eciacus vicarius Horvath 

 was taken in two adults from a nest of swifts, while a great num- 

 ber of eggs of that species were attached to the branches of the 

 nest. 



Mr. Engelhardt spoke of his finding ^. rileyana Hy. Edwards 

 on Staten Island with Mr. Davis ; he also showed a specimen of 

 ^•S. ithaccE Beutenmuller taken by Mr. Burns at Ithaca, N. Y., 

 and another specimen of the same moth from Clairiield, Pa. (Miss 

 Nell McMurry Coll.) ; this species was known formerly by the 

 two types only ; it bores in the rootstalks of Helianthus 

 kelianthoides. 



Mr. Davis showed a specimen of Calosoma sycophanta (Lin- 

 naeus) collected at St. George, Staten Island, N. Y., and stated 

 that this species had not before been reported from that locality ; 

 he called attention to the published minutes of this Society for 

 October 14, 1915 (Bulletin for February, 1916, p. 18), where 

 Mr. Schott had hrst reported its occurrence near New York City, 

 at Flatbush and at Fire Island Beach. 



Meeting of November 11, 1920. — The death was announced of 

 Mr. G. W'asmuth, a former member, after whom Papilio philenor 

 aberr. zuasmitthii Weeks was na^med, this form having been found 

 by him. 



Scientific Pro gramnire.— Mr. Wm. T. Davis read two papers 

 entitled " Notes on Beetles of the Genera Melasoma and Goni- 

 octena," and " On the Mating Instincts of Sphecius speciosus, the 

 Cicada Killer " ; both these communications have been published 

 in the Society's Bulletin (December, 1920). 



Mr. Davis also exhibited some of the insects collected by him 

 on two visits to Wading River, Long Island, in August and 

 September, 1919; a larva of a Cuterebra fly, found in a rabbit 

 that had been killed by an automobile, was given to him by Mr. 

 E. S. Miller; the fungus-growing ant, Trachymyrmex septen- 

 trionalis McCook, was found both at Deep Pond and Long Pond, 

 where it had been sought for in vain in previous years ; the shin- 

 ing slave maker, Polyergus rufescens lucidus Mayr, was also 

 found at Long Pond, with its usual slave, Formica schanfussi 

 Mayr. Several dragonfiies, Anax longipes Hagen, were reported 

 as having been seen at Walding River also three Aishna dragon- 

 flies, probably JEshna clepsydra Say, flying tandem' ; the hind pair 

 seemed to be in copulation, while the first individual, probably 

 a male, was holding on to the second male, as in the case of the 



