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AQ) Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society Vol. XIII 
Meeting of February 15.—Miss Louise Joutel and Mr. Rowland R. Mc- 
Elvare were elected members. Under Long Island records, Mr. W. T. 
Davis reported Gortyna immanis, Yaphank, Aug. 29, possibly new to the 
Island. Mr. R. P. Dow spoke on the blind cave beetles of Europe and 
showed 61 species. Mr. G. P. Engelhardt, continuing the narrative of his 
Pacific coast trip reported taking at Monterey, Halisidota argentata, Grapta 
. satyrus, Polyphilla decemlineata and Euryophthalmus (Largus) lunatus. / 
The lumps of pitch with empty pupa cases attached showed the abundance 
of the clear-winged moth Vespamina sequoie. 
Meeting of March 15.—Mr. W. T. Bather commented on the vast num- 
bers of Adimomia found on the fallen chips of the Sequoia. 
Meeting of April 12—Long Island records: Mr. W. T. Davis reported 
Upis ceramboides from Orient, taken by Roy Latham; Mr. W. T. Bather 
recorded for the first time from the Island Euchoeca cretaceata, Pack. 
taken in his shrubbery at Brooklyn, on June 7, 1917. Mr. Notman spoke 
on collecting in the Adirondacks, July 25-28, above the timber line on 
Mt. Marcy, N. Y. Some of his captures were Leptura tibialis, Bem- 
bidium oblongulum, Crepidodera robusta; a specimen of the deer bot-fly, 
Cephenomyia abdominalis was taken, apparently wind-blown to the rocks, 
to one of which it clung. Mr. W. T. Davis, speaking on “Some Long 
Island Insect Records of Interest from Yaphank’” mentioned among 
rarities the capture of a male and female Canthon viridis Beauv. rolling 
their manure ball by the side of a ditch on July 11; Odonteus cornigerus 
Melsh., a male on July 7; two females of Prionus pocularis Dalm. came 
to light. Since the great fire at Yaphank in May, 1911, many Tenebrionid 
beetles are to be found especially under the bark of dead trees. The 
following were here taken: Nyctobates pennsylvanica DeG., Merinus 
levis Oliv., Scotobates calcaratus Fabr., Xylopinus saperdioides Oliv., 
Xylopinus @enescens Lec., Tenebrio obscurus Fabr., Tenebrio castaneus 
Knoch. and Helops micans Fabr. Tolype laricis was found by the side 
of a road on August 28; Catocala tristis Edw. (andromeda Gn.) was 
found on the trunk of a pine, the same species being taken in July, 1909, 
on a tree-trunk. In the latter. part of August a number of cicadas were 
found dead along the roads. On August 28 as many as four Tibicen 
camicularis were so found, and on another occasion Tuibicen lyricen. 
Sphecius speciosus was seen to seize a female Tibicen canicularis on a 
tree trunk, both falling directly to the ground. 
Meeting of May 10—The resignation of Mr. W. D. Kearfott was 
accepted with regret. Long Island records: Mr. W. T. Davis exhibited 
Eros aurora Hbst. from Yaphank, May 8, 1917, and reported it quite com- 
mon there, about some dead pines, some under the loose bark and others 
crawling on the trunks of the trees; about 30 were collected by himself 
and Mr. Howard Notman. Mr. F. M. Schott reported the fly Brachy- 
palpus frontosus from Massapequa. Under the scientific program, Dr. 
J. Bequaert showed a collection of stride he had made in the Belgian 
Congo and in Europe. Among those shown were the bot c{ the rhinoc- 
