June-0ct.,i92i Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Societyl07 . 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 



Meeting of December i6, 1920. — Long Island Records. — Mr. 

 Engelhardt showed a collection of variations of Utetheisa bella 

 Linnaeus, made last summer near Brooklyn, N, Y., by Mr. 

 Mattes, a former member of the Society. He said that, perhaps 

 due to moist conditions, last season seems to have been unusually 

 favorable for the production of these variations. Mr. Davis ex- 

 hibited a female of the larger chestnut weevil, Balaninus proho- 

 scideus (Fabricius), collected at Kings Park, Long Island, N. Y., 

 September 5, 1920, by Mr. E. L. Bell. He also showed a male of 

 this beetle, found by himself on Rockaway Beach, Long Island, 

 September 17, 1916. He remarked that the species would prob- 

 ably soon be extinct on Long Island due to the death by fungus 

 blight of the native chestnut trees of fruit-bearing age. 



Scientific Programme. — Mr. Howard Notman first spoke of a 

 curious " compound larva " observed by him last summer in the 

 Adirondacks, N. Y. ; it consisted of numerous Sciara larvae ag- 

 gregated in a snake-like body. He then read some of his " Field 

 and Breeding Notes on Phytodecta," which paper will be pub- 

 lished in the Bulletin. Dr. J. Bequaert then spoke on the 

 " Bumble Bees in the vicinity of New York," comparing them 

 with the bumble bee fauna of Southern Maine, Boston and Wash- 

 ington, D. C. The following species of Bombidae are at present 

 known to occur near New York City : Bonibus affinis Cresson, 

 B. americanorum (Fabricius) {= pennsylvanicus of authors), B. 

 himaculatus Cresson, B. fervidus Fabricius, B. impatiens Cresson, 

 B. separatus Cresson, B. perplexus Cresson, B. terricola Kirby, 

 B. vagans F. Smith, Psithyrus ashtoni (Cresson), and P. labori- 

 osus (Fabricius). With the exception of B. terricola, which has 

 been taken on only a few occasions, all these species are common 

 or very common. Lutz and Cockerell's " Check-List of the 

 Higher Bees of North America," recently published, was also 

 commented upon. 



J. Bequaert, 



Secretary. 



