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fortunately my time was \'cry limited, so I had to depend on my 

 luck to catch the offender. This draining kept up right along for 

 about two weeks. Just as soon as a cluster had been deposited 

 it was attacked. Finally I discovered a male in act of sucking 

 the eggs dry. Two clusters had been deposited that day, one 

 containing nine eggs and the other twelve. The nine had been 

 completely drained, seven of the twelve were empty, and he was 

 enjoying the eighth. Upon being disturbed he immediately re- 

 treated. 



C. E. Olsen. 



Coleoptera. — In June Mr. Nicolay found excellent collect- 

 ing among dying trees on the Peninsula two miles east of Bellport, 

 L. I. Phloeotrya vandoueri, Mul., (No. 7671 Henshaw), was 

 taken under bark, Helluomorpha nigripennis, Dej. sweeping 

 dead leaves. Necrophorus pustulatus, Hrbst., was found under 

 dead wet pine bark, with no appropriate food in sight. 



Proceedings of the Brooklyn Entomological Society. 



The regular monthly meeting of the Brooklyn Entomological Society was 

 held at 55 Stuyvesant Ave., Feb. 13, 1913, with seventeen members present. 



An Outing Committee for the year was appointed: Chris. E. Olsen, 

 Jefferson Ave., Maspeth, L. I., and F. M. Schott, 854 Bushwick Ave., 

 Brooklyn. Both members are unusually well acquainted with the best hunt- 

 ing grounds of Long Island. 



The Publication Committee read a letter from Mr. Chas. Louis Pollard, 

 in which he stated that his recent family bereavement, and nervous strain, 

 resulting in ill health, necessitated his resignation as a member of the Commit- 

 tee. 



The resignation was accepted with regret. It was voted that the thanks 

 of the Society be accorded to Mr. Pollard, upon whom rested the chief burden 

 of preparing the first two numbers of the Bulletin. 



Mr. Davis reported the capture in June on Gardiner's Island of Canthon 

 vigilans, a new local record, and the always rare Helluomorpha bicolor. 



Mr. Brehme exhibited a collection of series of Apantesis of North America, 

 most of them being bred specimens with few species lacking. A prize was 

 A. nervosa, a caught specimen from Queens County, L. I. This species has 

 not been recorded from New Jersey. The collection was arranged according 

 to variation in color and maculation of each species. 



