32 Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society v'o/. viii 



Proceedings of The Brooklyn Entomological Society. 



The regular monthly meeting of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 

 was held on November 14, 1912, at 55 Stuyvesant Ave., with seventeen 

 members and two visitors present. 



Mr. Olsen showed a branch of white birch, heavily encrusted with the 

 oyster bark scale, Leptosaphus ulmi. The record for this plant is notable. It 

 is common on maple, lilac, etc. Mr. Shoemaker reported big swarms of the 

 Geometrid, Erannis tiliaria, Harris, in Brooklyn, Oct. 26 to Nov. 6. Mr. 

 Wasmuth took Terms lisa, var. alba, Aug. 15, a Long Island record. It is 

 not uncommon in Texas, and occurs through the Atlantic States. He commen- 

 ted on the local scarcity this year of Apantesis and Papilio, and remarked 

 that Catoeuala larvae, unusually numerous, were parasitized to an unusual 

 extent. 



Mr. Doll exhibited a box of bred specimens with some good records for 

 Long Island. Among them were: Apatela alhariifa, Central Park, Hadena 

 ifiordinata, Woodhaven, Aiethmia rectifascia, Papatpema limpida, Jamaica, 

 on Baptisia tinctoria. Extremes of variation were shown in a long series of 

 Utetheisa bella and a series of Junonia coenia showed a constant tendency 

 toward darkness and coalescence of the eye spots of the secondaries, either 

 late in the season or under artificially cold conditions. An aberrant Catocala 

 cara had the black bands of the secondaries lost posteriorly. Apatela 

 funeralis was taken at Newtown. Mr. Dow reported a small flight of Alelia 

 argillacea in Brooklyn, Oct. 11, but nothing like the enormous swarm of 1911. 



R. P. Dow, 



Recording and Corresponding Secretary. 



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 and addresses of those to whom sample copies of the BULLETIN 

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