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definitely against the views generally held as to the part played by 

 natural selection in the process of evolution." 



For those who do not have time or opportunity to consult the 

 original papers, this work will be of value, as it gives a comprehensive 

 summary of them. H. S. (Advt.) 



Doings of Societies. 



Feldman Collecting Social. 



Meeting of September 15, 1915, at the home of H. W. Wenzel, 5614 

 Stewart St., Philadelphia. Eight members were present, President 

 H. A. Wenzel in the chair. 



Coleoptera.- Mr. H. VV. Wenzel exhibited a specimen of Calosoma 

 sycophanta Linn, collected by Elmer Wenzel, Philada., July 27, 1915. 

 Dr. Castle said he had collected in the meadows at Ocean City, New 

 Jersey, August 28, and found Conotrachelus fissnngms LeC. and Both- 

 rotes arundinus LeC. in numbers. At Pine Beach collecting was poor, 

 but at Seaside Park, September 5, he had found about 500 Balaninus in 

 the "washup." Mr. Laurent said he had taken about sixteen hundred 

 specimens last year which he considered a poor season, but this is 

 still worse. He had taken a few good things in different orders; in 

 the Coleoptera he considered among his best captures a male Lcptura 

 mutabilis Newm. on ironwood, and a male (August 18) and a female 

 (August 14) Scaphinotus viduus Dej. All three specimens were col- 

 lected at Chestnut Hill and were exhibited. Mr. Haimbach reported 

 a clover weevil, Phytonomus melcs Fabr. as common on his place in 

 Roxborough, Pennsylvania, this summer. Mr. Geo. M. Greene ex- 

 hibited a male Malacorhinus tripunctatus Jacoby collected by H. Mit- 

 tendorf in New Braunfels, Texas, April 4, 1902, representing a Chry- 

 somelid species new to the United States. 



Diptera. Mr. Daecke said that men cutting down trees at Rock- 

 ville, Pennsylvania, had left behind a barrel used by the horses for 

 drinking purposes. He had noticed mosquito wrigglers in this Aug. 

 I5th and had taken them home and bred Mcgarhiniis scptentrionalis 

 Dyar and Knab; this is the most northern record. Mr. Geo. M. 

 Greene stated that he had caught a specimen of this species at Chain 

 Bridge, Virginia, September 8, 1915. 



Adjourned to the annex. 



GEO. M. GREENE, Secretary. 



American Entomological Society. 



Meeting of October 28, 1915, at the Academy of Natural Sciences 

 of Philadelphia. Dr. Philip P. Calvert, President, in the chair. Twelve 

 persons present. The President announced the death of a member, 

 C. Few Seiss, September 5, 1915. 



