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Mr. Davis exhibited, as a Long Island record, Autographa rectilineata, 

 a boreal creature, taken July 27, by beating oak lea^"es, killed by Elaphidion 

 macronatum. 



Mr. Martin exhibited a collection of the past year, mostly coleoptera, 

 from Saranac River, N. Y., Lakehurst, N. J., and points on Long Island. 

 Among the notabilities were a black AUelabus rhois from the Adirondacks, 

 CalUdium janthinum from Brooklyn, a Long Island record, and Helluomorpha 

 nigripennis , always rare and generally occurring singly, from Lakehurst. 



Mr. Torre-Bueno spoke on the Capsidae generally and many rare hemip- 

 tera. In faunal lists of Europe, Central America, India, etc., the Capsidae 

 contribute about one-third of the heteropterous hemiptera. By analogy 

 the number in the New Jersey fauna ought to reach 175 and there should be 

 no less from Long Island, with its rare combination of Southern and Northern 

 occurrences. Among rarities, Mr. Bueno mentioned: Cynius discors, con- 

 fused with but quite distinct from the European claviculus, taken in West- 

 chester County by sweeping cat-tail stems; Blissus hirtus, taken at White 

 Plains, type from Pennsylvania; Cryphulla parallelogramma, under stones; 

 Xestocois nitens, from New York State and Claremont, N. H.; Gargaphia 

 angulata, from New Haven, Conn., reported in beans; Orthostira, a new species, 

 hibernates as a nymph and occurs at White Plains in both long and short 

 winged forms; Pagasa fusca, also known as nitida, under dry weeds or leaves 

 in sandy places; Carthasis decorata very few ever taken, found by beating 

 willow, a record for New York State. Other records, Washington, D. C, 

 Maryland, Merragata hehroides, described from Hawaii, next taken in Mexico, 

 now turns up in Yaphank, Long Island, in the wingless form heretofore 

 unknown. It occurs in grasses near water and is recorded from Staten 

 Island and Illinois. R. P. Dow, 



Secretary. 



Long Island Records. 



Lest any reader should question the wisdom of devoting a 

 large proportion of short notes in the Bulletin to captures of 

 rarities on Long Island, it may be well to explain now that in the 

 distant future a list of insects found on the Island ought to and 

 will be produced. Anyone possessing such records will confer 

 great benefit by communicating them to the Editor. 



IDENTIFICATIONS— The Secretary sets apart the hour from 12 to 1, 

 Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, at his ofhce, 15 Broad St., 

 Manhattan, room 9, Ninth floor, to receive visitors interested in Entomology, 

 and aid them, if possible, to identify, especially Coleoptera and Lepidoptera. 

 Beginners will be made especially welcome. 



The Publication Committee will be glad to receive names 

 and addresses of those to whom sample copies of the BULLETIN 

 should be sent. 



