142 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Mar., 'l6 



Doings of Societies. 



Entomological Section, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. 



Meeting of November i8th, 1915. Twelve persons present, Mr. Phil- 

 ip Laurent, Director, presiding. 



Lepidoptera. Mr. Daecke exhibited Thecla liparops, taken at 

 Carlisle Junction, Pennsylvania, July 9th, 1909, and Thecla edwardsi, 

 Hunter's Run, Pennsylvania, July nth, 1914, the latter species being 

 abundant. Dr. Skinner exhibited the Academy collection of the Pierid 

 genus Delias and called attention to the predominance of orange in 

 butterflies that extend their range into the tropics. 



Diptera. Mr. Hornig said he had found Citlc.r pipicns breeding 

 on November 1st and Anopheles punctipcnnis on November 5th this 

 fall. 



Orthoptera. Mr. Rehn referred to the area from Florida to 

 Texas, over which he had collected in conjunction with Mr. Hebard 

 this summer. Former studies of the Orthoptera in the adjoining terri- 

 tory were mentioned. The distribution of certain species was pointed 

 out and the various delimiting barriers mentioned and illustrated. Mr. 

 Laurent exhibited a mounted specimen of Pardtenodera sincnis in the 

 act of catching and holding a humming-bird. He related the occur- 

 rence of a Mantid of this species, catching a humming-bird, in Ger- 

 mantown, Philadelphia, and represented the act by the mounted speci- 

 mens shown. HENRY SKINNER, Recorder. 



The Convocation Week Meetings: Horticultural Inspectors. 



The fourteenth annual meeting of the American Association of Offi- 

 cial Horticultural Inspectors, an affiliated division of the Association of 

 Economic Entomologists, was held in Columbus, Ohio, December 28 and 

 29, 1915. The following papers of an entomological character were 

 presented : 



HARRY B. WEISS, New Brunswick, N. J., Foreign Pests Recently 

 Established in New Jersey E. R. SASSCER, Washington, D. C., Im- 

 ported Insect Pests Collected on Imported Nursery Stock in 1915, 

 Remarks on Inspection Facilities in the District of Columbia, and 

 Vacuum Fumigation and Its Application to the Control of Insects Af- 

 fecting Plants and Plant Products J. G. SANDERS, Madison, Wis., 

 The LJniform Horticultural Inspection Law J. H. DAYTON, Paines- 

 ville, Ohio, Report of the Legislative Committee of the National Nurs- 

 erymen's Association (Reported the acceptance of the Uniform In- 

 spection Bill by the nurserymen at their national convention in Detroit, 

 Michigan, June, 1915; said that it was a gratifying advance in horti- 

 cultural legislation to note the closer feeling of co-operation among 

 the nurserymen and the entomologists: conveyed the sentiments of 

 the nurserymen to this Association and expressed a wish for the con- 

 tinued good feeling and co-operation existing at present.) F. M. 

 O'BYRNE, Gainesville, Fla., Nursery Inspection in Florida. J. EDWARD 



