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Mr. Weeks read his correspondence on the subject of a state appropria- 

 tion of $50,000 to fight the brown-tail moth, including replies from Dr. 

 E. P. Felt, New York state entomologist, and Dr. L. O. Howard, govern- 

 ment entomologist. The pest is fairly well established at Orient Point, 

 Fisher's Island and elsewhere, and prompt steps are being taken to fight 

 it now rather than wait until the damage gets into the millions. 



Mr. Corbin then showed a bottle of live beetles sent from Texas City by 

 Lieut. Grant, formerly assistant at the Children's Museum. They con- 

 tained Trox scutellaris and T. ptinctatus, a Centriopteron and a big, lumber- 

 ing Eleodes suturalis texanus. 



The regular meeting of the Brooklyn Entomological Society was held 

 at 185 Brooklyn Ave., May 14, called to order by President Davis. Present 

 also thirteen members and two visitors. 



Report of the treasurer, showing society balance of $434.07 and Bulletin 

 account balance $16.74, was read by the secretary. The librarian reported 

 at length on the state of the old publications which the society has for 

 sale. Sales have included every item listed, with a steady demand for 

 J. B. Smith's Glossary of Entomological Terms. The editor for the Pub- 

 lication Committee reported at length on the progress of the Bulletin, 

 for which new subscriptions are coming in steadily, but which needs the 

 personal interest of every member to make it an unqualified success. 



There was ordered to be spread on the minutes the fact of the death 

 of John A. Grossbeck, Assistant in Invertebrate Zoology in the American 

 Museum of Natural History, which occurred in the Barbados, April 8. 

 Mr. Grossbeck was a former member of the Brooklyn Society and always 

 responded liberally to calls for entomological demonstrations. In com- 

 pany with the secretary of that society he made his first visit to the tropics 

 three years ago, going to Jamaica and collecting with a zeal and judgment 

 which brought him a high degree of commendation from his superiors. 

 The secretary was instructed to write to Mrs. Grossbeck conveying the 

 society's sympathy and best wishes. 



Mr. Engelhardt spoke of collecting experiences early in May at Yap- 

 hank, L. I., and near Tuxedo, N. Y. The black flies were exceedingly 

 annoying at both places. The species were Simulenm vemtstum Say and 

 S. invenustum Walk. Splendid results in Lepidoptera especially were ob- 

 tained in both places from the pussy willow bloom and at sugar. At least 

 twenty species of Noctuidae were taken, mostly species not taken com- 

 monly at any other season. 



Mr. Davis spoke on the Cicindelidae of Long Island, of which seventeen 

 species and two varieties are listed by him in actual captures. This does 

 not include the form nigrita Davis. Unipunctata is represented only by 

 specimens reported by Schaupp in Bulletin, Vol. I, p. 28, from Wash- 

 ington Park. C. abdominalis irom the east end of the island is Mr. Davis' 

 latest discovery. Tetracha virginica is included from Mr. Davis' happy 

 capture at Hemstead. C. consentanea was reported in numbers by W. C 



