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1771-1782, at Sharon, Conn., and Dover, N. Y., when he resided on the 

 old land patent known as the " Little Nine Partners." The book, bound 

 in leather, was obtained from the estate of the late John J. Crooke of 

 Great Kill, Staten Island (whose grandmother was a Livingston), and 

 recently donated to the Association by Mr. C. W. Schutzendorf. 



Mr. William T. Davis exhibited and commented upon certain insects 

 included in a collection of about four hundred specimens, made in July 1914 

 at East Jewitt, Catskill Mountains, N. Y.,on and in the vicinity of the farm 

 of Hon. Howard R. Bayne. Particular attention was called to the dragon- 

 fly Boyeria grafiana Williamson, several specimens of which were cap- 

 tured. They were not uncommon along the course of a deeply shaded 

 brook. This species, and B. vinosa Say, which latter occurs on Staten 

 Island, either fly toward evening or may be found in woods where the 

 full light of the sun does not penetrate. 



Seventeen species of grasshoppers were collected, of which the most 

 interesting was Atlanticus davisi Rehn & Hebard. The one specimen se- 

 cured was found drowned in a quiet eddy of a brook. At the time it was 

 secured the species was undescribed. A subsequent study of this and the 

 two species of the genus found on Staten Island, A. pachymerus (Bur- 

 meister) and A. amcricanus (Saussure), led to the description of A. 

 monticolor Davis, which lives in the mountains of the southeastern 

 United States. 



Mr. Davis exhibited and commented on a work by W. S. Blatchley and 

 C. W. Leng, on the Rhynchophora or Weevils of Northeastern America, 

 issued by the Nature Publishing Company of Indianapolis in 1916, and ex- 

 hibited the type specimen of Trachyphlaetis davisi, shown in figure 47 on 

 page 115, which was captured at Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island. 



Mr. Davis also described a visit made in May 1916 to Lahaway Plan- 

 tation, Ocean County, N. J.', the home of the late J. Turner Brakeley, and 

 discussed certain of the natural features of the region. Specimens of the 

 snakes and insects collected were exhibited; also a portion of a large 

 silicified tree trunk that was discovered some years previously during the 

 process of constructing a dike for a cranberry bog. The specimen, after 

 it was excavated, was deposited at the base of a tree near the Brakeley 

 house, where it remained for some time ; but it was subsequently broken 

 up and portions of it distributed to a number of collectors and museums, 

 our Own among the latter. 



The meeting then adjourned. 



REGULAR MEETING, NOVEMBER l8, I916 



The meeting was held in the assembly hall of the Museum, 154 Stuy- 

 vesant Place, New Brighton. 



President Howard R. Bayne in the chair and thirty persons present. 



The minutes of the regular meeting of October 21, 1916, were read and 

 approved. 



