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past. Mr. Davis also exhibited four pink katydids, Amblycorypha 
oblongifolia, from West New Brighton. They were collected by 
Mr. C. A. Ingalls, Miss Campbell, Mr. Campbell, and Carol 
Stryker. 
Mr. Charles W. Leng read extracts from Daniel Denton’s Briet 
Description of New York, London 1670, reviewed in Proc. 
STATEN Is. Assoc. April 1906. The original work gives an en- 
thusiastic description of the heavy forests, of the bear, deer, wild 
turkeys and the like, to be found on Staten Island and in the 
vicinity at the time of Denton’s visit. 
The meeting of October 30, 1920, was held at the residence of 
the president, Miss Miriam A. Campbell, 275 Watchogue Road, 
Westerleigh. 
Mr. Edw. J. Burns exhibited a specimen of the somewhat 
recently imported European onion fly, Eumerus strigaius Fallén, 
collected in the Clove Valley May 28, 1920. 
Dr. Joseph Bequaett spoke on the spitting habits of some snakes 
in the tropics apropos of an incident narrated by Mr. Carol Stryker 
of his experiences with a garter snake a few days previously in a 
walk through the woods. Specimens of caterpillars, which form 
an important article of food among the natives of the Belgian 
Congo, were shown by Doctor Bequaert, and many amusing inci- 
dents relative to the use of insects as food were told by him. 
The meeting of November 27, 1920, was held at the residence 
of Mr. Wm. T. Davis, 146 Stuyvesant Place, St. George. 
Mr. Lynn W. McCracken showed a pearl found by him in an 
oyster stew. 
Mr. Carol Stryker described the action in flight of a sparrow 
hawk about to seize its prey. | 
Mr. Wm. T. Davis exhibited a collection of symmetrically 
shaped stones, mostly from Staten’ Island, and commented upon 
the more common oblong, flattened form, as distinguished from 
the eggshaped and rounded specimens. 
