April,1919 Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society. (6) 
PROCEEDINGS OF THE BROOKLYN ENTOMOLOGICAL 
SOCIETY. 
Meeting of January 16, 1919—Officers for 1919 were elected as follows: 
Mr. W. T. Bather, president; Mr. W. T. Davis, vice-president; Mr. C. E. 
Olsen, treasurer; Mr. J. R. de la Torre Bueno, corresponding secretary ; 
Mr. G. Franck, curator; Mr. A. C. Weeks, librarian; Dr. J. Bequaert, 
recording secretary; Mr. J. R. de la Torre Bueno, C. Schaeffer and G. P. 
Engelhardt, publication committee. The resignation of Dr. Lagai was 
accepted. 
Scientific programme: Mr. C. Schaeffer shows many Long Island beetles, 
a list of which will be published in the Buttetrn. Mr. Davis exhibits 
beetles from Gardiner’s Island, off the coast of Long Island, N. Y.; among 
them are seven species of tiger beetles: Cicindela purpurea, C. repanda, 
C. hirticollis and var. rhodensis, C. tranquebarica, C. punctulata, C. sex- 
cuttata and C. marginata. Mr. Notman collected many interesting beetles 
at Yaphank, Long Island; among them Heterius blanchardi Leconte 
(named by Mr. C. Schaeffer) taken in a nest of Formica sanguinea sub- 
integra Emery (named by Dr. Bequaert). 
Meeting of February 13, 1919——Mr. C. Schaeffer is replaced on the 
Publication Committee according to the By-Laws by Dr. J. Bequaert, 
secretary. The resignation of Mr. Wasmuth was accepted. 
Scientific programme: Mr. Engelhardt reviewed the systematic position 
of the A®geriide, especially of the western forms. Aside from species 
of economic importance, as yet the foodplants of a few only are known. 
The speaker has bred all but two of the eastern forms. Comparison of 
eastern, western and Pacific Coast material clearly indicates that many 
ZEgeriids now ranking as species would find a more natural grouping if 
placed as sub-species or geographical races under a recognized parent 
. form. As illustrating this statement the following species, among others 
were shown: Podosesia syringe and its western form P. fraxim; San- 
ninoidea exitiosa (eastern specimens), S. graefi (Rocky Mountains), and 
S. opalescens (Pacific Coast) ; Sesia rileyi in a form from Virginia and in 
another form from Colorado. Dr. Bequaert comments upon a Psam- 
mocharid, Agenia brevis Cresson, in which Mr. N. Banks has discovered 
a well developed psammophore of recurved bristles on the gula; the 
specimen shown was collected at Springs, Long Island, N. Y., August 16, 
1918, and kindly named by Mr. N. Banks. 
