60 Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society Vol.X 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE BROOKLYN ENTOMOLOGICAL 



SOCIETY. 



(To date from this issue of the Bulletin, only the scientific portion of 

 the Minutes of the Meetings of the Society will be published. Members 

 wishing to be advised of the affairs of the Society, maj', if thej^ so desire, 

 address the Secretary, who will furnish them with the facts ; or better, 

 may learn them at first hand by being present at the regular meetings.) 



Meeting of January 14, 1915: This being the annual meeting, the fol- 

 lowing were chosen officers of the Society for the year 1915 : President, 

 Wm. T. Davis ; vice-president, W. T. Bather ; treasurer, Chris. E. Olsen ; 

 recording secretary, J. R. de la Torre Bueno ; corresponding secretary, 

 R. P. Dow ; librarian, A. C. Weeks ; curator, George Franck ; publication 

 committee, Messrs. Schaeffer, Dow and Bueno. 



The following appointments were made : Delegate to the Scientific Al- 

 liance, Mr. Chas. E. Sleight; Auditing Committee, Messrs. Bather and 

 Erhardt; Field Committee, Messrs. Pasch and Schott. 



The presidential address was on Dcndrotetiix qucrcus, now recorded 

 from Yaphank, L. I. 



Long Island records : Mr. Nicolay recorded the following coleoptera : 

 Pityobius anguinus, Elaphrus clairvillei, and Buprestis lincata, all from 

 Yaphank and Bellport ; Buprestis lineata, from Bellport ; Elaphrus fuligi- 

 Hosus, Brooklyn; Horistonotus curiatus, Wading River. 



Miscellaneous records in coleoptera : By Mr. Nicolay, Elaphrus cicatri- 

 cosus, Monmouth, Me. ; E. clairvillei, Wales, Me. ; Sandalus nigcr. Pali- 

 sades, N. J. 



Lepidoptera : Alsophila pometaria' was reported taken in winter with a 

 temperature ranging between 20 and 24 degrees. 



In Heteroptera : Acantholoma denticulata Stal, was reported from West 

 Point, N. Y., April, taken by Col. Wirt Robinson. 



The regular programme was a joint paper by Messrs. Dow and Bather 

 on Ateuchus saccr L., and all the curious beliefs that the ancients held 

 regarding it, and an account of collecting it in Italy. 



. Meeting of February 11: Long Island records — Mr. Shoemaker showed 

 a specimen of Arctia anna, black on wings, picked up on the tide line 

 wash up at Rockaway Beach, and also Arctia c.vcclsa. 



Mr. Davis corrected the minutes for October 15 as published and stated 

 he had not collected Dichromorpha hrunnea Scudder on Long Island. 

 This insect, recorded from Texas, has not been taken locally, so far as 

 we know. 



Mr. Bather exhibited the following insects, all from Porto Rico : 



Lepidoptera: Dcilephila lineata, Triptogon luguhris, Theretra tersa, 

 Pholus vitis, Phlcgethontius rusticus, Ph.- Carolina, and the rare Diludia 

 cubensis G. & R., all of which come into our fauna, and also the typically 

 tropical Perigonia restituta; Perigea iole, Melanochroia ccphise, Dyaphnia 



