I2O ENTOMOLOGICAL XF.WS. |Apr.,'lQ 



ington ; Treasurer, H. \V. Wenzel ; Secretary, Geo. M. Greene, and 

 Assistant Secretary, J. Wagoner Green. 



Coleoptera. Messrs. Kirk and Knull detailed some of their methods 

 of rearing Cerambycidae in the state insectary. Air. Hornig exhibited 

 a specimen of Carnl us neinoralis Mull, which he collected in German- 

 town, Philadelphia. X-is-iS. Dr. Castle exhibited from Uniontown, 

 Pennsylvania, Scal'liinntits : iiluits Dej., VII-io to VIII-27, S. f/ennari 

 Chaud. VII-20 to VIII-25 and S. ridiugsii Bland VII-io to VIII-is. 

 Mr. H. A. Wenzel spoke of sieving material collected from a swamp 

 at Upper Darby. Delaware County, Pennsylvania, 1-5-19, and finding 

 Dicer,i pugionata Germ, (previous records of which were beating 

 alder in June and July) and D. lurida Fabr. ; he was surprised to 

 find them hibernating. 



Orthoptera. Mr. Huntington mentioned a man from Sewell, New 

 Jersey, who trapped roaches in his house by placing a sponge soaked 

 with vinegar, over which was spread sugar and grated onions, in a 

 screen trap which was placed in a dark room and proved a great 

 success. 



Diptera. Mr. Hornig said he had had a complaint from a house 

 that many small flies were in the dining-room and found they were 

 Drosophila in great numbers, but was unable to find the manner in 

 which they bred. GEO. 'M. GREENE. Sec'v. 



Ohio Entomological Workers. 



The Annual Stale Meeting of Entomological Workers in Ohio Insti- 

 tutions was held in the Botany and Zoology Building, Ohio State Uni- 

 versity, Columbus, Ohio, on Thursday, January 30, 1919. 



Brief addresses were made by Raymond C. Osburn, Head, Depart- 

 ment of Zoology ?nd Entomology, Ohio State University; H. A. Gos- 

 sard, Entomologist, Experiment Station, and E. C. Cotton, Chief, 

 Bure?u of Horticulture. 



The following reports and papers were presented : H. A. Gossard, 

 Timely Notes: Herbert Osborn, Further Notes on Meadow Insects; 

 W. C. Kraat7, A Study of Scirtes iibiulis Guer. ; W. M. Barrows, 

 Grassland Spiders Stratification in Associations; Robert K. Fletcher, 

 A few notes on the Miridae of Meadows and Pastures; D. C. Mote, 

 Report on Anthelmintic Experiments; T. H. Parks, The Bioclimatic 

 Law (Law of Altitude, Latitude and Longitude) as Applied to Hessian 

 Fly Control in Ohio; Edna Mosher, Some Interesting Beetle Larvae; 

 A. J. Basinger, Preliminary Studies in Ohio Tachinidae; C. H. Young, 

 Notes on Tropisternus glaber (Llerhst) ; R. C. Osburn, The Onion Fly, 

 Eumcrus strigatus, in Ohio; J. S. Hine. The University Entomological 

 Collect'ons; J. S. Houscr, An Undeveloped Profession. 



T. S. Hnrsi R. ,SVr;v/<jrv. 



