50 Bulletin oj the Brooklyn Entomological Society Vci. viii 



Dragon Flies of the Genus Celithemis found on Long Island, N. Y. 



South of the village of Wading River there are two interesting 

 clear-water ponds that have no streams flowing from them. They 

 are surrounded for the most part by pine woods that have been 

 much damaged by fire. Mr. Charles Schaeffer and I collected many 

 insects about these wood-land ponds in August, 1912, and on the 

 8th of the month, along the white sandy shore at the southerly 

 end of Long Pond, I found two specimens of Celithemis 

 monomelaena Williamson, one of which, a male, was captured. 

 In maculation this specimen agrees with Williamson's species, 

 described in the Ohio Naturalist, vol. X, p. 155, 1910. The species 

 recorded under the name of fasciata, Kirby, has been taken in 

 Southern New Jersey and about the Great Falls of the Potomac 

 River in Virginia, but I believe has never before been reported from 

 Long Island or adjacent territory along the Atlantic coast. From 

 the literature and from our own experience it appears to prefer 

 clear-water ponds. Another unrecorded Long Island Celithemis is 

 ornata Rambur, which has bee i taken at Yaphank in July and 

 August, and at Long Pond, Wading River, in August. The two 

 remaining local species of the genus are C. elisa Hagen, which has 

 been collected at Yaphank in July, Wading River in August, and 

 Flushing in August, and C. eponina Drury found at Flushing in 

 August. The last two are, however, more widely distributed. 



Wm. T. Davis. 



A Plague of Carolina Grasshoppers at Long Beach, 



Long Island, in 1912. 



The Carolina grasshopper. (Dissosteira Carolina, Linn) was 

 in countless numbers at Long Beach, Long Island, N.Y., during 

 the summer of 1912. On July 10 they were on the lawns near 

 the hotel, on the walks and on the beach down to the edge of the 

 waves. These last were feeding on the vegetable matter thrown 

 ashore by the sea. On the up-beach they were eating anything 

 they could find, and five were observed about one small piece of 

 orange peel and twelve others about a second bit about as 

 large as a silver dollar. When we sat on the sand to eat lunch 

 we had to look out for the grasshoppers, for directly two nymphs 



