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Among visitors was J. A. Grossbeck, of the American Museum of Natural 

 History. 



Messrs. Doll and Haug reported that on a trip, the Sunday previous to 

 the meeting, to Central Park, L. I., as many as 1.50 Jodia rufago were encoun- 

 tered amid 40 or more Copipanola cubilis. Messrs. Davis and Engelhardt 

 encountered many on the same date on a walk from Central Park to Massa- 

 pequa, through a most promising collecting country. The way was readily 

 found without path or compass by keeping in sight the red maples in flower by 

 the edges of the stream in the midst of the long swamp. 



Mr. Nicolay widened the date records for Cychrus lecontei by showing 

 four specimens from the Palisades, March 29. He recently gathered great 

 numbers of Elleschus scanicus Payk., an introduced species, by sweeping low 

 grass in a moist situation. The specimens were pale, having recently emerged- 

 This is a record for Long Island. 



Mr. Franck's paper appears elsewhere in this number. 



Mr. Davis described a visit September 4-6, last year to Southold, L. I., 

 near which regions collecting promised well. Lake Hashamomuck, so-called, 

 is in reality a large tidewater inlet, although belied by the fine vegetation 

 along the shore. In another direction was Great Pond. There is one path 

 to an ice house by the pond. Elsewhere the woods are thick. Nearby is 

 the most easterly patch of the scrub pines on the north shore. Some tulip 

 trees were encountered but they were stunted. One large white pine and 

 saplings were found. Sweet gum was absent, but there were American lin- 

 dens. 



Cicada engelhardtii Davis, normally from Virginia to Alabama, was encoun- 

 tered here, also the southern Conocephalus lyristes. The search for Orthoptera 

 was decidedly successful. 



Mr. Shoemaker exhibited a collection of Long Island beetles. Tetra- 

 gonoderus fasciatus, taken sifting at Aqueduct March 22, has hitherto only 

 been reported locally from near Camden and southern New Jersey. Cymindis 

 borealis was taken and Panagaeus crucigerus, the latter May 8 under an old 

 bit of leather. A specimen of Soronia ulkei, an inhabitant of ant's nests, 

 was taken alive on the tide line, Rockaway Beach. Phymatodes dimidiatus 

 is a good local record. Last summer in August he encountered a poplar 

 beneath which the earth from a trench had been thrown so high that, walking 

 on it, he was level with the branches. From this position he took 58 Saperda 

 calcarata, mostly females, ovipositing on the trunk and large branches. Saperda 

 discoidea were numerous in hickory at Aqueduct. 



R. P. Dow, Secretary. 



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

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

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

 and aid them, if possible, to iden'tify, especially Coleoptera and Lepidoptera. 

 Beginners will be made especially welcome. 



