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of butterflies, Hymenoptera, and flies, as it is of beetles. Doctor 
Bequaert also explained how in collecting some of the rare species 
of Cyprea a freshly removed cowhide was lowered into the water, 
and upon its being drawn up after a time these molluscs would be 
found clinging to the hide. 
The meeting of November 10, 1919, was held in the Public 
Museum. 
Mr. Charles W. Leng exhibited a male and female of the rare 
and interesting beetle Dinapate wrighti Horn, recently obtained 
from Richard Garnett, who found them in the stems of the Well- 
ington palm, a species confined to a very restricted area about 100 
miles east of Pasadena, California. Bostrichus bicornis Web., a — 
beetle of the same family living on Staten Island, was also shown, 
to contrast the great difference in size between the “living fossil ” 
from California, 1% in. in length, and one of its closest relatives. 
Mr. Wm. T. Davis exhibited several living European crickets, 
Gryllus domesticus L., collected Nov. 10, 1919, at the home of 
Mrs. Hucklenbrach, Princes Bay, Staten Island, where their song 
had been very disturbing to members of the family at night. Mr. 
Davis also exhibited the turtle Kimosternum pennsylvanicum from 
Nelson County, Virginia, nearly 150 miles from the mouth of the 
James River, where the species is not uncommon. On Staten 
Island it appears to be confined to the borders of the salt marshes. 
He had also collected the small poisonous snake Tantilla coronata, 
found under a stone in Buckingham County, Virginia, near the 
James River, July 15, 1917. According to Mr. E. R. Dunn there 
has been no record of the species north of Raleigh, N. C. (Copeia 
IQIQ, p. 100). 
The meeting of January 12, 1920, was held in the Public 
Museum. | 
Miss Miriam Campbell related some of her experiences with 
Tachinid and ichneuman parasites of the large caterpillars she has 
raised and studied. , 
