Mar., 1908.] Proceedings of the Society. 55 



Hone Societatis Entomologies Rossics, XXXVII, Nos. 3 and 4. 



New Bruchidre with Notes on Known Species. Chas. Schaeffer. Bull. 



Brooklyn Inst. Museum, I, No. 10. 



Deutsche Entomolog. Zeitschrift, 1907, No. 1. 



Mittheilungen d. Naturhist. Museums in Hamburg, XXXIII, Xo. 2. 



Proc. Amcr. Acad. Arts and Sciences, XLII, Xo. 19. 



Wiener Entomol. Zeitung, XXVI, Nos. 1 and 2. 



An Investigation of Evolution in Chrysomelid Beetles of the Genus Leptinotarsa. 

 W. L. Tower. Carnegie Institute, Washington, 1906. 



Verhandlungen d. k. k. zool.-bot. Gesellschaft. Wien, LVI, Xo. 10. 



Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc, XLV, No. 184. 



Canadian Entomol., XXXIX, No. 3. 



Acta Societatis Fauna et Flora Fennica, 1905, No. 25. 



Middlebander Soc. p. Fauna et Flora Fennica, 1906. 



Trans, of the Sapporo Nat. His. Soc, I, Pt. I, Sapporo, Japan. 



Mr. Harris gave an account of a collecting trip to Knoxville, Tenn., and 

 Ashville, N. C. 



Mr. Schaeffer said that he had found the black form Cicindela nigrita on white 

 beaches as well as further inland but it is much more common on Long Island than 

 on New Jersey beaches. Mr. Harris stated that his experience hail shown that C. 

 nigrita is very local and he had found them on Long Island shore where there were 

 no mud flats as at Far Rockaway. 



Mr. Southwick asked if there was any resemblance between the Cicindelas and 

 the kind of soil they frequented as seems to be the case with members of the genus 

 Salda of the Hemiptera. Mr. Leng replied that such was not usually the case, 

 although there were some exceptions as in C. dorsalis and C. lepida. Mr. Davis said 

 that from their habits there was not so much need of protective coloration as there was 

 for aggressive coloration. 



Mr. William T. Davis exhibited eight species of galls the contents of which had 

 been eaten by mice and birds. In the interesting and valuable article by Melville 

 T. Cook on "Galls and Insects Producing Them" published in the Ohio Naturalist, 

 the author states that " animals make but very little use of galls for food." In com- 

 menting upon this Mr. Davis remarked that galls like Amphibolips cortfluetilus are 

 often opened by birds, and such low growing galls as Rhodites radicum are attacked 

 by mice with equal frequency. Also the egg bags of the large spider Argiope are 

 opened by crows and mice, and the young spiders which hatch in the fall and 

 hibernate in these bags during the winter are often devoured. Specimens of egg 

 bags from Staten Island, opened by these animals, were exhibited. 



Mr. Beyer exhibited a box containing practically all of the American members 

 of the genus C/i?ysomela, stating that he had collected eleven species of this genus in 

 the Huachuca Mts. , Arizona. 



Mr. Bischoff showed a box containing several hundred specimens of Coleoptera 

 taken at Lakehurst, N. J., during three days early in July, 1906. Many good species 

 were represented in the lot. 



Mr. Zabriskie exhibited a large Chalcid parasite (LeucOs/>is a(7inis Say) showing 

 the peculiar position of the ovipositor lying in a groove along the back, instead of 

 being placed ventrally as is usual among Hymenoptera. The male of this species 



