May 1907] PROCEEDINGS s. I. ass'n arts and sciences. 13s 



This storm occurred on the same day and at about the same time 

 that the waterspouts formed in the Lower Bay, which were described 

 by Mr. L. A. Camacho at our meeting: on March 16 (see Proceedings, 

 vol. i, p. 100). 



Mr. William T. Davis exhibited specimens of tree crickets and read 

 the following: paper: 



a new species of tree cricket. 



On the 4th of last August, while on Long: Neck, I collected three 

 tree crickets that had different marks on the first and second joints of 

 the antennae than the other species known to me, and so were of con- 

 siderable inte.-est. At the end of the season I found that I had in all 

 ten individuals of this species from various adjacent parts of New 

 Jersey as well as from Staten Island. The characters are so distinct 

 that it was decided to name the species, and it was accordingly called 

 CEcanthus excla77iationis . The description appeared in the Caiiadian 

 Entomologist, vol. xxxix. May, 1907, p. 173, figs. 7, 8. 



A list of the tree crickets now known to occur on Staten Island is 

 as follows: 



CEcanthus bipunctatus De Geer 



latipennis Riley 



niveiis De Geer 



angustipen7iis Fitch 



exclaniaiionis Davis . 



guadripu7ictatus Beut. 



fasciatus Fitch 



notes and comment. 



.Mr. Davis exhibited specimens of Bufo americanus Le Conte and 

 B. iowleri Putnam. He stated that the common toad of Staten Island 

 is the latter species, as determined by the descriptions contained in the 

 recently published "Frog Book" by Mary C. Dickerson. 



Mr. J. Blake Hillyer, on behalf of Mrs. George W. Curtis, presented 

 an old map of Staten Island, published by M. Dripps, 34 Vesey St., 

 New York, in 1872. 



Mr. Alanson Skinner exhibited and described a collection of dried 

 foodstuffs used by the New York State Indiar,3, :;:s!.:/.n~ com, black- 



