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mented upon the small number of specimens in the Society's 

 collection, and made the proposition that if each member 

 would from now till March donate 10 specimens to the collec- 

 tion, he would present the Society with 100 specimens repre- 

 senting 50 species new to the collection ; his report and offer 

 were accepted. 



Mr. Henry Wormsbacher, of- Jersey City, was proposed for 

 membership and unanimously elected. 



OTTO BUCHHOLZ, Secretary. 



At the meeting of the Feldman Collecting Social, held 

 December 6, 1903, at the residence of Mr. H. W. Wenzel, 

 1523 South 1 3th Street, Philadelphia, eight members were 

 present. 



Mr. Bland exhibited some Coleoptera collected in Septem- 

 ber around English Creek, N. J. He also showed Brontes 

 dubius and B. debilis, the former from around Philadelphia, 

 the other from English Creek, N. J., September nth, thus 

 proving that both are northern species. Other interesting 

 forms were spoken of, including Conotrachelus leucophceus, new 

 to the New Jersey district, and Tachygonus spinipes, taken on 

 September 23d. 



Mr. Hardenberg asked regarding the relationship of insects 

 to Fungi. 



Messrs. Wenzel, Hardenberg and Bland believed that the 

 same beetles do not live on more than one species of fungus. 



Mr. Daecke exhibited the imago and supposed larva of 

 Ptinx appendiculatus , from Da Costa, N. J. The larva was 

 beaten from a tree and had been kept alive for fourteen months, 

 being fed with caterpillars. He also exhibited the remains of 

 a mass of unmounted mosquitoes which had been destroyed by 

 a moth larva. 



Prof. Smith stated that he had bred Cn/c.v dnprcci from 

 larva taken in two different localities in New Jersey. The 

 larva remains at the bottom of water, its gills being supplied 

 with trachea. Also Culex sqnamiger, a California:! species, had 

 been captured at Westville, and near New Brunswick, N. J. 



WILLIAM J. Fox, Secretary, 



