ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Dec., 'l2 



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Doings of Societies. 



AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



Meeting of June 10, 1912, being the first meeting held in 

 the new entomological quarters of the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences of Philadelphia. Dr. Calvert, President, in the chair. 

 Nine persons present. 



Dr. Skinner made some remarks on the damage done by the 

 plum curculio and exhibited specimens of fruit containing 

 their larvae. His own trees on his place at Ardmore, Pa., 

 plums, peaches and apples, showed 100 per cent, injury. Not 

 a single fruit was left to tell the story of what had happened. 



Mr. G. M. Greene reported the great abundance of Macro- 

 dactylus and Syrphidae on the flowers of Viburnum at Gus- 

 tine Lake in Fairmount Park. 



Mr. Harbeck mentioned finding an Ortalid fly, Callopistria 

 annulipes, on a dead locust tree at Trenton, New Jersey. The 

 fly was found in some numbers. He also reported and exhib- 

 ited a specimen of the tick Dermacentor variabtiis taken from 

 a boy's head. 



Mr. Rehn said he and Mr. Hebard expected to spend three 

 months in Texas this summer collecting Orthoptera. 



Mr. E. T. Cresson, Jr., spoke of an apiculturist in the vicin- 

 ity who was trying to get rid of black-segmented honey bees 

 by breeding, in favor of a pure yellow strain. It was hoped 

 to breed yellow drones and a yellow queen and get all yellow 

 workers. Specimens of very yellow bees were exhibited. 



