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Mr. Edward Avis played several violin selections and imitated 
the songs of a number of birds. 
The Oct. 28, 1922, meeting was held in the Public Museum. 
Mr. William T. Davis exhibited a specimen of the Syrphid fly 
Microdon megalogaster Snow (bombtformis Townsend) from 
Fort Wadsworth June 14, 1922. ‘This is an addition to the local 
list. | 
Dr. Joseph Bequaert described the peculiar habits of the flies 
of this genus, the larvae of which live in ants’ nests. He gave 
an amusing account of the mistakes made in the past in describing 
the peculiar larvae as new species of slugs due to their resem- 
blance. | | 
Mr. Davis also showed the following Noctuid moths and Longi- 
corn beetle as records for the local lists: Lampra cupida Grote, 
collected in September and October; Lampra brunneipennis Grote 
from the Clove Valley, Aug. 14, 1920; and the true Lampra 
anchocelioides Guenée, collected in the Clove Valley July 23, 1911. 
In the list of the Macrolepidoptera of Staten Island, published 
in the Proc. Staten Is. Assoc. in 1909, these insects were con- 
sidered under the name Rhynchagrotis anchocelioides (cupida be- 
ing placed as a synonym in Dyar’s list), but Mr. F. H. Benjamin, 
who recently examined the specimens, has determined them as 
above. Ulolonche modesta Morrison; two specimens found under a 
board lying on the ground on the Big Hummock, Watchogue, 
Staten Island, May 12, 1918. This is an addition to the list. 
Xylotrechus acerts Fisher, described in 1916 from specimens 
collected in Washington, D. C.; also from Delaware, Kentucky, 
-and Pennsylvania. The beetle was taken at 146 Stuyvesant 
Place, St. George. | 
A peculiar fasciated stem of a cultivated geranium grown by 
Mrs. Edna E. Snow was exhibited. 
A Baltimore oriole nest having two openings was exhibited by 
Mr. Davis. It was collected at Melville, Long Island, Aug. 22, 
1922, by Mr. Oscar Heck and preserved by Mr. Frederick M. 
Schott. 
