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are three other roads, connecting the city with all points of the compass. 

 It was a hot sultry night with no wind and for the most part cloudy an 

 ideal night for collecting. 



In the " NEWS," Vol. II, page 334, Mr. Troschel records the capture of 

 cluentius at Chicago. Surely this species should now be on our list of 

 Sphingidse. W. W. NEWCOMB, M.D. 



Doings of Societies. 



A meeting of the Feldrnan Collecting Social was held at the 

 residence of Mr. Frank Haimbach, 1309 Allegheny Avenue, 

 Philadelphia, October igth, Mr. Erich Daecke, Vice- President, 

 in the Chair. Nineteen persons were present. Dr. Calvert 

 exhibited larvae and pupae of the bee-moth and said they were 

 for distribution among the members. He said the wood under 

 each cocoon was gnawed out for its reception, thus forming a 

 little depression. The robber-moth, Achcrontia atropos, was 

 mentioned, and Mr. Daecke said he took a fine specimen far 

 out at sea, in the Mediterranean. Mr. Haimbach spoke of the 

 great abundance of Aletia argillacea at St. Louis. He saw 

 thousands and counted 42 on one window. Mr. Wenzel said 

 he had been studying Balanimts, and found it extremely 

 difficult to collect images, but had secured larvae by the 

 thousands. Many chestnuts from Timber Ridge, Va., con- 

 tained larvae of B '. rcctus and proboscidcus. Mr. Huntington 

 had seen a live scorpion brought into the Fair Grounds at St. 

 Louis. He was under the impression that they were tropical 

 in habitat. Mr. Viereck said the complex nomenclature of 

 insects had not infrequently driven students away from ento- 

 mology, and he gave the opinion of the Rev. Edward Everett 

 Hale and other writers on the subject. Recently Dr. Graen- 

 icher, of Milwaukee, had sent him rare or new parasitic 

 Hymeroptera reared from Ceratina dupla, which show how 

 interesting are the biological studies irrespective of nomen- 

 clature. Mr. Greene reported the capture of Cicindela purpurea 

 var. limbalis in Northern New Jersey in the neighborhood of 

 Boonton on April 27th. 



Mr. Daecke reported the capture of Diachlorus fcrrugatns 

 near Wey mouth, N. J. Osten Sacken gives its distribution as 



