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The following- is quoted from the published minutes of the 

 meeting- of the New York Entomological Society held April 20, 

 1909: "Mr. [E. L.] Dickerson exhibited two specimens of 

 Carabus nemoralis, which he had taken under stones in his 

 back yard in Newark in April, remarking that this was further 

 evidence that this European species was well established in the 

 eastern United States." (See Jour. N. Y. Entom. Soc. 17: 141. 

 Sept. 1909.) 



Mr. W. P. Comstock collected Carabus nemoralis in Newark, 

 N. J., July 15, 1909; May 1910 and April 14, 191 1, These 

 specimens he kindly gave to me and to the collection of this 

 Association. 



Mr. Frederick M. Schott found this insect in considerable 

 numbers under electric lights at Flatbush, Brooklyn, N. Y., May 

 1912 and April 1913; and Mr. Charles Schaeffer also reports it 

 as occurring in his back yard in Brooklyn. 



It may be seen from the foregoing that this beneficial insect 

 has become well established about the city of New York, and 

 the finding of it on Staten Island has made the circle complete. 



