Records of Meetings 



On December 2 only seven gulls were observed in the reservoir, one of 

 them, however, was in the Logan Spring or northeastern basin, the only 

 gull thus far observed there. On December i6 the reservoir was com- 

 pletely frozen over and no gulls came down to the ice. 



(2) Local entomological specimens with explanatory notes, as follows: 

 Carabus nemoralis Mull. Three individuals of this large and predaceous 



beetle, recently introduced about New York City (see Proc. Staten Is. 

 Assoc. Arts and Sci. 5 : 92) were collected on Henderson Ave., West 

 New Brighton, April 3, 1918. They had been tempted from their winter 

 retreats by the very warm weather of that period. 



Ladon exusta Say. A female of this dragonfly, which had evidently 

 been on the wing some time, was collected in the Clove Valley July 5, 

 1917. This species is an addition to our local list but is common in north- 

 ern New Jersey. In the pine barrens of New Jersey and on parts of 

 Long Island its place is taken by Ladon exusta deplania Rambur. 



Partenodera cinensis (Saussure). This large, introduced species of 

 mantis has been mentioned in our Proceedings (vol. 8, p. 43, Nov. 8, 1902) 

 as having been reared on Staten Island from tgg masses received from 

 Philadelphia. It now appears to have established itself at Mariner Har- 

 bor, two having been collected there in 1916, and three in 1917. These 

 records in detail may be found in a paper on the Introduction of 

 Palearctic Praying Mantids into the North Atlantic States, to be published 

 in the Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society. 



(3) Local zoological specimens preserved in alcohol, with accompanying 

 data, as follows : 



Spelerpes ruber (Daudin). Red salamander. Found in a rather dry 

 situation under a piece of wood at foot of tree in woods and about 100 

 feet from water. Reed's valley, Dongan Hills, August 17, 1917. 



Storeria dekayi (Holbrook). Brown snake. Found dead on DeKalb 

 St., Saint George, April 23, 1917, following the warm weather of the 22d. 

 Also one found dead on steps leading to Castleton Park grounds, Rich- 

 mond Terrace, New Brighton, September 16, 1917. 



Diadophis punctatus (Linnaeus). Ring-necked snake. Found dead on 

 steps leading to the Moravian Cemetery, New Dorp, September 20, 1917. 



Thamnophis sertalis (Linnaeus) Garter snake. Killed at 146 Stuy- 

 vesant Place, New Brighton, by a neighbor who saw it crawling in the 

 garden, on the very warm day of April 22, 1917. 



By Mr. Edward J. Burns — Note on the capture of a field mouse by a 

 gray squirrel, as follows : 



Near my home at Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island, on September 2, 

 1917, while taking a walk along a path bordered by trees and underbrush 

 on one side and an old board fence on the other^ in search of insects, my 

 attention was attracted by the squeaking of a mouse in the bushes just 

 ahead of me. Not knowing what was happening I stood still, and pres- 

 ently saw a gray squirrel, Sciurus carolinensis leucotis (Sapper), less than 



