386 ENTOMOLOGICAL NE|WS. [Oct., *12 



the Section, had accepted a position in the "Forest Insect In- 

 vestigation" Division of the United States Department of 

 Agriculture at Washington, D. C. 



E. T. CRSSSON, JR., Recorder pro tern. 



FELDMAN COLLECTING SOCIAL. 

 The social was invited by Mr. Haimbach to 150 Sumac 

 Street, Wissahickon, Philadelphia, on February 2ist, 1912, 

 but owing to the inclemency of the weather only Messrs. 

 Huntington, C. T. and George M. Greene put in an appear- 

 ance, so no meeting was held. 



Meeting of March 2oth, 1912, at 1523 South Thirteenth 

 Street, Philadelphia. Eleven members were present. Vice- 

 President Wenzel in the chair. 



The death of our honorary member, Prof. John B. Smith, 

 was announced. The Secretary stated that the social was 

 represented at the funeral by five members. 



Mr. Daecke said he had had, in the past, much trouble 

 cleaning greasy insects. He stated that it was comparatively 

 easy to clean Coleoptera but in Diptera it was very difficult, 

 as the wings would not stay in position after being wetted 

 but would always collapse. Dipping in gasoline was unsatis- 

 factory, and he finally devised the following method : Made 

 a setting block of plaster of paris to which the fly is fastened, 

 the wings being held in position by strips of white blotting 

 paper. Then ammonia water was dropped on the specimen 

 from a tumbler, a drop at a time, and finally when the insect 

 was allowed to dry it was perfectly clean and the grease had 

 been absorbed by the block, which could be easily seen on the 

 one exhibited. Same speaker said he had dug larvae at Manu- 

 muskin, N. J., May 21, and when bred they proved to be 

 Rhyacionia (Evetria) rigid an a Fern. (Lep.), which is not in 

 the New Jersey list. Exhibited a specimen of an Empid, 

 Blepharoprocta binummus Loew (Dipt.) from Inglenook, 

 Pa., May 28, 1911, which he said had been very puzzling at 

 first to identify. When viewed under the microscope it ap- 

 pears as if holding two coins in its "hand," hence its name. 



