26 Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society Vol. IX 



should be in the Hbrary of every student of insects whose interest 

 goes beyond the mere naming of species and their arrangement 

 in linear series. 



J. R. T. B. 



Proceedings of The Brooklyn Entomological Society. 



The regular meeting of the Brooklyn Entomological Society was held 

 at the Central Museum, Nov. 13, President Davis in the chair, sixteen members 

 present, and as visitors, Dr. W. T. M. Forbes and Einer L. Olsen, a former 

 member. 



The Treasurer reported $50 received for the Bulletin fund, including $25, 

 the gift of W. T. Davis. The Publication Committee reported the copy for 

 the December was all prepared and that the printing would be done in Clare- 

 mont, N. H. 



The President read a letter from the Committee of Entomologists of 

 Cornell University relative to the proposed volume of a list of insects of New 

 York, inviting the cooperation of the Society, the appointment of one of its 

 members as a member of the projected board of editors. After considerable 

 debate it was voted unanimously that the Society should give its best aid to 

 the plan, and it was then voted that a committee of three should consider 

 ways and means and report at the December meeting. The Committee: 

 Bather, Torre-Bueno and Olsen. 



It was voted to hold the December Meeting at the Children's Museum. 



Mr. Torre-Bueno showed some papers by Dr. Longinos Navas of Spain, 

 describing new species of Neuroptera, among which were Lomamyia nearctica 

 and Chrysopa rubicunda from Yaphank, L. I., Malacomyza ventralis and 

 Sympherobius buenoi from White Plains, N. Y. 



Mr. Davis presented as Long Island records (identifications by Dr. Forbes) 

 Chytonix sensilis Grote, Central Park, L. I., Aug. 12, 1913; Cassville, N. J., 

 Aug. 17, 1910 the record of this rare moth being an addition to the New Jersey 

 list; Orthosia auriantiago Guenee, Riverhead, Aug. 5, 1913; Nymphula 

 obliterans Walker, Yaphank, July 25, 1908, three specimens. 



~Klr. Schaeffer reported the Hemip. Lygaeus bicrucis from his garden, 

 Brooklyn, November. Mr. Nicolay has taken them at Rockaway. 



Mr. Doll exhibited a box of lepidoptera specimens of the 1913 acquisition. 

 He raised during the season eleven species of Papaipema. Notably cerina 

 Grote came from the wild tiger lily, food plant hitherto unknown. The species 

 bred from Long Island are: P. duovata Bird from salt golden rod, Solidago 

 sempervirens; P. sciata Bird from Veronica virginica; P. frigida Smith from 

 meadow rue; P. duplicata Bird from horse balm, Colensonia canadensis, 

 P. astuta Bird from the same food plant; P. lysmachia Bird from loose strife. 



Mr. Schaeffer exhibited specimens of Mantis religiosa, of which over 

 fifteen were taken by Robert Schmaltz near Rochester, with egg masses, 

 indicating that the species is more or less naturalized. 



The paper by Wm. T. Davis on Calosoma frigidum and C. willcoxi is 

 printed in the Bulletin. Mr. Weeks spoke of the plentifulness of the three 

 species of Calosoma, common at sugar in East New York. Mr. Dow recorded 

 willcoxi as not uncommon at light on the edge of Prospect Park, Brooklyn. 



Mr. Engelhardt spoke of his recent visit to Lakehurst, N. J., primarily 

 to take Glcea carinosa. Success at sugar was more pronounced on muggy 

 nights, especially when it was raining quite hard. November collecting of 

 lepidoptera has brought many species in quantity of the utmost rarity also. 



