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flavored. He also related that in the North woods the hibernating Campo- 
notus pennsylvanicus is eaten by the French-Canadian lumbermen. Mr. 
W. T. Davis, in “ Remarks on Long Island Insects,” said that among other 
insects taken at Montauk, Sympetrum costiferum was in some numbers, as 
well as Catocala badia and the grasshopper, Spharagemon scudderi. This 
last! insect has been taken before on Long Island, on the edge of the one- 
time prairie near Central Park. Three species of Brachynus were found, 
and on the upbeach at night, three Cicindela dorsalis were attracted to 
light and ran toward it when the lantern was placed on the sand. Tabanus 
bicolor was secured; ‘and three Cicadas, Tibicen auletes, T. linnei and T. 
lyricen were present’ in the wooded areas, the last named in great numbers, 
their songs in some places being continuous like the subdued roar of the 
seventeen-year Cicada in locust years. 
Meeting of May 16, 1918—Mr. G. P. Engelhardt reported a somewhat 
serious infestation of the rhododendrons in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden 
by Sesia rhododendri. Dr. J. Bequaert spoke on insects as food staples of 
African tribes. After reviewing the ordinary vegetable and animal foods 
of the negro, he stated that cannibalism and entomophagism were doubtless 
due in a large measure to the scarcity of their ordinary food-staples. To 
eke out they eat many insects, principally termites, caterpillars and Orthop- 
tera. Termites are collected at the time of their nuptial flights and smoked, 
being frequently offered in the market; according to Mr. Herbert Lang, 
they taste like fresh lobster sprinkled with sand. So much are they prized 
that their nests are considered private property and rival claimants fre- 
quently fight for them. In the Ituri Forest, the Medje collect by beating 
a Ceratocamid caterpillar which is dried, smoked and stored; before boil- 
ing; the spines which cover the body are carefully removed. The larve of 
various Anaphe are very generally eaten, and along the Congo River they 
are offered for sale to the native boat crews. According to Lang, in May 
the Logo near Faradje collect large numbers of a katydid resembling a 
Neoconocephalus, which they sweep from the grass with fish-nets. The 
abdomen, which is very greasy at this season, alone is eaten. Many other 
insects, such as the ant Carabra vidua, larve of longicorn and scarabeid 
beetles, of wild bees, etc., are eaten either as titbits, raw or roasted on 
sticks. Mr. Jacob Doll showed five species of 4igiale (Megathymus) de- 
fending the separateness of var. coloradensis from A. yucce, this feeding 
on the high, the former on the low and well down in the roots; A. cofaqui 
also being a low feeder. 
Meeting of June 13, 1918—Mr. F. C. Pasch showed a box of Coleoptera, 
and Lepidoptera, including Adelocephala albolineata, McAllen, Tex.; Hemi- | 
leuca electra, Southern California; Apantesis anna, Lanesville, N. Y.; and 
a number of others. Mr. G. P. Engelhardt spoke on the Sesiide, showing 
Sesia rhododendri and its workings from Botanic Gardens, Brooklyn; 
Sesia tipuliformis, described from Europe now also found on currant 
bushes in Botanic Garden, Brooklyn; Memythrus tricinctus, which attacks 
