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hairy; wingpads reaching almost to end of abdomen; anterior 
edge of prothorax armed with eight spines each terminated by a 
comparatively long hair; median dorsal surface of prothorax 
bears four transverse similar spines; another transverse row close 
to posterior edge of prothorax; a pair of smaller spines on lateral 
edge of prothorax; a cylindrical, median, dorsal tubercle just 
behind prothorax ; antenna bearing two minute lateral spines ; ab- 
domen terminated by two parallel spines. 
PROCEEDINGS OF THE BROOKLYN ENTOMOLOGICAL 
SOCIETY. 
Meeting of May 15, 1919—Long Island Records: Mr. Shoemaker shows 
Adalia humeralis, from Brooklyn, N. Y., supposed to be a variety of 
Adalia bipunctata. Mr. Burns exhibits the rare Syrphid Callicera johnsom 
Hunter taken by him on flowers of Prunus on Staten Island; also Bu- 
prestis decora, found on May 5 at Tompkinsville, Staten Island, this being 
the most northern record of that beetle, but undoubtedly the result of 
accidental importation. 
Scientific Programme: Dr. Bequaert reads a review of Mr. and Mrs. Phil 
and Nellie Rau, “ Wasp Studies Afield,” which has been published in the 
June number of this Butretin. Mr. Engelhardt reports upon the field 
trip to Flushing, N. Y., on April 20. He also speaks of his collecting expe- 
riences in the Pine Barren region at Massapequa, Long Island, on April 
14. A special but futile search was then made for Merolonche dolli B. 
and McD., a noctuid, the only eastern representative of its genus and 
known only by the type specimens from Long Island in Dr. Barnes’ collec- 
tion, a specimen collected by Mr. Engelhardt several years ago at Massa- 
uequa and deposited by him in the U. S. National Museum, and another 
specimen from the same locality captured and owned by Mr. Wm. T. 
Davis. Mr. Engelhardt found, however, a fine freshly emerged female of 
Feralia major, resting on the trunk of a pitch pine; a specimen taken by 
Mr. Shoemaker, also a female, and this one are the only known records 
for Long Island. Other moths taken at Massapequa included: Psaplidia 
resumens, two males; Todia rufago, common when beaten from oak 
branches with last year’s leaves attached; Phobesia atomasis, common in 
open woods; Epicnaptera americana, two females found resting on tree 
trunks; and Lycia ursaria, three males found under electric lights. That 
Vespa crabro, the European hornet, is now well established on Long Island 
was shown once more by three hibernating females in rotting logs. Mr. 
Schaeffer mentions the following other insects taken by Mr. Engelhardt 
at Massapequa: Brachypalpus frontosus Loew, Dicerca asperata L. & G,, 
