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June, 1919 Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 1138 
PROCEEDINGS OF THE BROOKLYN ENTOMOLOGICAL 
SOCIETY. 
Meeting of March 13, 1919.—Scientific programme: Mr. E. Shoemaker 
exhibited a series of beetles collected in June, 1918, at Oliverea, Catskills, 
Ulster Co., N. Y., a list of which is published in the Buttetin. He also 
related his experiences with sugaring and showed some of the moths cap- 
tured. Dr. J. Bequaert spoke on the peculiar position of the wings of a 
hibernating Vespa communis found by Mr. Bell at Flushing, N. Y.; the 
wings were folded on the sides of the body between the hind legs and the 
abdomen. Mr. Bueno remarked that! he had found Vespa maculata hiber- 
nating similarly at Palisades, N. J. Mr. Engelhardt read a note by Mr. 
C. Rummel on Apantesis virguncula (in the April Butretin). Mr. Doll 
recalled his experiences in breeding this and other Lepidoptera: Schizura 
apicalis Grote and Robinson, Lycena pseudargiolus Boisduval and Le- 
conte, Hemileuca burnsi Watson (Nevada), and H. neumegent Edwards 
(Prescott, Ariz.). 
Meeting of April ro, 1919—Dr. W. D. Funkhouser was nominated as a 
member of the Society. A resolution of appreciation and thanks was 
voted to Mr. P. Dow, to be printed in the Butierin, together with Mr. 
Dow’s photograph. 
Long Island Records: Mr. Engelhardt mentioned the finding of Psaphida 
resumens Walker ¢ and of Lycia ursaria Walker ¢ at Syosset, Nassau 
Go. tk om ApriliGy 1919: 
Scientific programme: Mr. J. R. de la Torre Bueno gave a lecture on 
“ The historical importance of insects as dominant factors in human prog- 
ress,’ which will be reproduced in full in the BULLETIN; it was illustrated 
by numerous lantern slides of insects injurious to human health and of the 
diseases they convey. Mr. Howard Notman, in speaking on “ Coleoptera 
collected at Mooers, Clinton Co., N. Y.,” showed 145 species of beetles col- 
lected last summer in that locality; ten of these are described as new, to 
appear later in this Burtetin. Mr. C. E. Olsen spoke on “ The European 
Idiocerus cognatus Fieber in the vicinity of New York” and also read 
some remarks on the same subject by Messrs. Dickerson and Weiss. 
J. BEQUAERT, 
Recording Secretary. 
