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hyalitiata, Agraults vanillce, Euptoicta hegcsia, Pieris ilaire, Cafopsila 

 cubulc, Tcrias lisa, T. alba, Papilio polydaiiias, all occurring in our fauna, 

 others being Lycccna cranius, Ecpantheria cacia and Lawron vinosa. 



Coleoptera : Hydrophilus insularis and H. atcr. 



Orthoptera : Scaptcriscus didactylus. 



Heteroptera : Spartoccra chinavwmca, Zchis bilobiis, Edcssa cordata 

 and Nezara viridula. All were taken in April, 1914. 



Meeting of March 11: Long Island records — Lepidoptera : Pclca vcr- 

 nalis. Halfway Hollow Hills, by Mr. Engelhardt; Euptoicta claudia, 

 stated by Mr. Franck to be quite common on Long Island and by Mr. 

 Engelhardt that it fed on pansies and emerged late in the fall. Scientific 

 papers : Mr. W. T. Davis on the " Periodical Cicada in Long Island," and 

 " The Fungus-Growing Ant near Smithtown," both of which will be 

 printed in the Bulletin. 



Specimens of Limnodytcs gcrriphagus, a minute Proctotrypid parasitic 

 on Gerris eggs, together with parasitized ova, collected in Ithaca by Mr. 

 E. A. Richmond, were shown by Mr. Bueno. 



J. R. DE LA Torre Bueno, Recording Secretary. 



EDITORIAL. 



Most of the subscribers to the Bulletin recall the paper by 

 Mr. Dury, Vol. IX, Dec, 1914, p. loi, enumerating the beetles 

 taken by him under a grass pile. A bushel or two of lawn mow- 

 ings were dumped in a corner of a yard and a watermelon rind 

 dropped on the pile. It is still a fine collecting ground. It has 

 yielded many species hitherto unrecorded in the state. 



The Bulletin has subscribers in every state of the Union and 

 every province of Canada. It is now suggested that at least one 

 reader in each make exactly the same sort of grass pile, bait it with 

 melon rind or some decaying fruit, moisten it occasionally during 

 the dry season, and swell his entomological collections. The 

 harvest will be rich in every order from Thysanura to Diptera. 

 The coleopterists will probably fare best of all. The catch in 

 any state should reach at least 125 species and may easily mount 

 to 200. It will include not only every fungus eater, every feeder 

 on decay, every beetle of prey, but will attract in the dry season 

 many others which are compelled to seek moisture at any cost. 

 Each investigator will surely take ten or more species unrecorded 



