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went a Phlegethontiiis cingulata taken in the heart of Brooklyn. Air. 

 Olsen had been working on the local Aphidse and has prepared about 300 

 slides of them. He showed a twig of hickory girdled by Oncidercs 

 cingulatiis, and the habits of this beetle were discussed at some length. 

 Mr. Engelhardt spoke of three October days at Yaphank, with much sugar- 

 ing. Cychrns elevatus came along a sandy path to eat the sugar drippings. 

 Catocala herodias 2 came from Wading River in July. He showed Cato- 

 cala phalanga and the Carabid Myas cyanescens. A series of Graphiphora 

 subterminata was taken in April on pussy willow blossoms. Others were 

 Pachnobia fishii and Autograplta biloba, Calocampa cineritia and Calymnia 

 orina. Brephos infans was very abundant in the spring at Massapequa. 

 Mr. Leng spoke of the joy of finding a big cluster of Thaneroclerus 

 sanguineus under bark. Mr. McElvaire spoke of trying light collecting at 

 Northport. The butterflies, Pyrameis atalanta and huntera were the prin- 

 cipal visitors. His sugaring was poor because the hosts of Leucania uni- 

 puncta drove out all others. Mr. Clark, of Providence, R. I., it was noted, 

 had the same experience. The latter lost his temper to the point of devot- 

 ing the evening to swatting the army worm to the extent of about nineteen 

 quarts. Local sugarers had similar experiences. Unipuncta was every- 

 where in unprecedented abundance. Mr. Erhardt all summer had tramped 

 the same old places, getiing pretty much the usual run of things. Mr. Tietz 

 showed some interesting Lcpidoptera, a Catocala relicta quite dark, and 

 Basilarchia archippus with secondary bands obsolescent. Mr. Doll had 

 followed up Papaipema, getting cerina from the tiger lilies in one place at 

 Aldene, N. J., but nowhere else. Mr. Weeks at Yaphank had varied ex- 

 periences. He had sawed out the galleries of Prionixystus robiniae and 

 found a way to trap Pasimachus depressus. Cychrus elevatus around the 

 roots of lilac were attracted by the maggots in the dead Xylorictes satyriis- 

 Mr. Sleight had bred out a few more caddis flies. Mr. Torre-Bueno had 

 sought Hemiptera, as usual. He showed a lot from beach drift collected 

 by J. D. Sherman, Jr., from Marquette, Mich., in July, which included in 

 goodly numbers Thyreocoris unicolor and Sehirus cinctus, a few others of 

 interest: Perilloides exaptus, Pentatoma persimilis, Alydus conspersus, 

 rather rare, Lygaeus turcicus, L. bicrucis, Cymus discors, Geocoris buUatus, 

 S phragisticus nebulosus, Orthostira n. sp., the exceedingly rare Galeatus 

 peckhami in a good series, two winged ReduvioUis subcoleoptratiis, rare in 

 collections, and a few aquatics. His local collecting found species rather 

 scarce and rather darker in color than during average seasons. He spoke 

 at some length of the Kirkaldy collection now in his hands. It arrived 

 perfectly from transit from Hawaii, but had suffered much previously. 

 Box after box full of specimens had been separated from labels. Certain 

 type series were badly Dermestes eaten. 



Mr. Schaeffer had collected from Long Island, and showed a box of 

 specimens. Pityobius anguinus had come to light at Wading River. 

 Choragtis simmermanni is always rare. A Trechus, coming from Bellport 

 at first called provisionally chalybeus, is a new thing still to be named. In 



