Davis: NoTEs ON STATEN ISLAND BLACKSNAKES 65 
_ Olfersia americana Leach. Yankee Lake, Wurtsboro, Sullivan 
Co., Sep. 6, 1905, on broad-winged hawk (James P. Chapin). 
Staten Island, Nov. 24, 1904. Freeport, Long Island, Sep. 13, 
1913, on marshhawk (Henry Thurston). 
_ Pseudolfersta maculata Cog. Staten Island, May 20, 1905, and 
Sep. I, 1906, on fishhawk (James P. Chapin). 
A Staten Island Bee Tree! 
WittiaAm T. Davis 
The severe storm of September 30, 1920, blew over or otherwise 
damaged many trees on the island, and among them a red oak near 
Great Kill, which had its top blown off. The damage to the tree 
disclosed the fact that honeybees had occupied a cavity in the 
trunk about three feet in length and twenty-five feet from the 
ground, for a number of years, for much of the honeycomb ap- 
peared old. A large part of the nest had fallen with the top of the 
tree, and the comb was lying about on the ground. It was being 
visited at the time of discovery, October 3, 1920, by many Vespa 
communts, Vespa crabro, and several Bombus impatiens, also a 
number of flies. “Thus many insects profited by the misfortune to 
the honeybees. 
1 Read at the meeting of the Nature Study Club October 1920. 
