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How IJcrrli Hutomalogtcal ,f ocicftj. 



Edited by William Morton Wheeler. 



Publishes articles relating to any class of the subkingdom Arthropoda, subject 

 to the acceptance of the Publication Committee. Original communications in this 

 field are solicited. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE NEW YORK ENTO- 

 MOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Meeting of March 5, 1907. 



Held at the American Museum of Natural History. Vice-President E. B. 

 Southwick presided with twelve members and three visitors present. 



Mr. Engelhardt related his collecting experiences on a trip made during the pasl 

 summer along the St. Lawrence and Saguenay Rivers in Canada. He exhibited two 

 boxes of insects and a number of photographs taken in the region. He spoke of his 

 visit to Toronto, the Thousand Islands, Montreal, Ottawa, Quebec, the Saguenay 

 River and Tadmsac. He spent two weeks at Tadmsac, a small fishing village, 

 located at the junction of the Saguenay and St. Lawrence Rivers, where he did con- 

 siderable insect collecting. This region is of especial interest as showing a great simi- 

 larity to the sub-alpine region of the White Mts. of New Hampshire. Insects of all 

 orders were found fairly abundant. On returning Mg. Engelhaidt visited the White 

 Mts. where, on top of Mt. Washington, he found aquatic insects very abundant in 

 numerous small pools. 



Mr. Schaeffer exhibited some Cicindelida." which showed peculiar color variations. 

 Among these were C. oregona var. maricopa, C. purpui ea, obtained by Mr. Lull and 

 Mr. Engelhardt in Utah, C. perviridis from California, and C. obsoleta from Arizona. 



As Mr. Toutel was absent the reading of his paper was postponed but Mr. S. .uth- 

 wick announced the title as, "The Mating Instinct Among Insects" and invited the 

 members to discuss the subject. 



Mr. Davis stated that while collecting at Newfoundland, N. J., he had cut from 

 an ash log some immature longicorn beetles [Bellemira scalarii ) which he placed in 

 a bottle and during the night they copulated. They would not have been mature for 

 two weeks at least. 



Mr. Davis also related an account of the marriage flight of bumble bees [£ 

 virginicus) which he had been fortunate enough to observe. 



Professor Wheeler related some interesting facts about the copulating habits of 



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