100 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. v. 
Meeting of February 2, 1897 
Held at the American Museum of Natural History. 
Vice-President Love in the chair. Eleven members present. 
The Auction Committee reported that a number of insects had been donated to 
the society by Messrs. Ottolenqui and Dyar. 
It was decided to appoint a committee of three to devise ways and means of in¬ 
creasing the membership of the Society. 
Dr. Ottolenqui exhibited a series of Ecpantheria scribonia showing the typical 
form merging into the form demidata , and questioned the correctness of the variety, 
saying it was only a worn specimen. Dr. Dyar replied by saying that in the true 
denudata the scales did not hold very well and were sooner lost than in the typical 
scribonia. He also showed a series of Nadata gibbosa, in some of which the white in 
the fringes was entirely absent and in others only represented by one or two white 
scales, thus agreeing with the description of doubledayi, and proving that it was a 
synonym of gibbosa. He mentioned that Clisiocampa distria was very common and 
destructive in New Hampshire the past summer. 
Dr. Dyar spoke on a winter trip to Miami, Fla. He described the country and 
mentioned the species of Lepidoptera seen. Insects were not abundant, but two 
especially interesting l.epidopterous larvae were found; the first was the larva of the 
little black Euchromian Syntomedia minima , which has only recently been found in 
Florida. The larvae occurred sparingly and were observed in all their stages. The 
larva is red, tufted with dark grey hairs resembling somewhat some of the species of 
Euchcctes , but with the warts of an Euchromian, not an Arctian. The second species 
was discovered on the Mangrove while rowing up the Miami river. It is the larva 
of Eupoeya slossonice Pack., a moth whose family position has been in dispute. Dr. 
Packard described the form as a “new species of Limacodes-like moth,” while Dr. 
Dyar had considered it Megalophygid. The larva proved to be a true Eucleid 
closely allied to Fhobetron. Dr. Dyar described its most essential characters, show¬ 
ing that it was in effect a green Fhobetron on which had been superimposed the 
special adaptation of our Sisyrosea textula ( inornata ). 
Mr. Doll showed an example of Catocala elda bred from a larva found on Long 
Island, on silver poplar. He also showed a beautiful aberration of Anisota stigma 
suffused with black, and one of Melitcea chalcedon , also a cross evidently between 
Limenitis Ursula and disippus. He also had several aberrations of Cecropia, one 
of which had the transverse band crowded to the edge of the wings, making a unique 
insect. 
Dr. Seifert exhibited some Lepidoptera showing the effects of heat and cold on 
eggs and pupce. The Lunas which he showed had the eggs frozen twenty days. 
The eggs of V. antiopa were kept frozen thirty days, the effect on the imagos was a 
general loss of brightness in the males and a gain in the females. The October 
brood were most affected. 
Meeting of February 16, 1897. 
Held at the American Museum of Natural History. 
Vice-President Love in the chair. -Thirteen members present. 
The resignation of Dr. Kretz was read and accepted. 
The Auction Committee reported that Mrs. Slosson and Mr. Doll had donated a 
number of insects for the Journal fund, a list of which was read. 
