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TAYLOR, Salt Lake City, Utah, Co-operation in the Establishment of 

 State Quarantines. N. E. SHAW, Columbus, Ohio, The Ohio Inspec- 

 tion System. 



During the discussion of Atr. Weiss' paper it was moved by Dr. 

 Headlee that it is the sense of this body that the federal quarantine be 

 strengthened and that an absolute quarantine be placed on all plants 

 imported with soil about the roots, except such as are introduced by the 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture for experiment and those to be held 

 in quarantine for a reasonable period. This motion was passed unani- 

 mously and the Secretary instructed to notify the Federal Board of 

 this action. Mr. Burgess reported that Christmas trees and greens to 

 the extent of over forty-one carloads, containing 1200 to 1800 trees 

 each, had been shipped from the quarantine area in New England, all 

 of which had been inspected previous to shipment, and a considerable 

 number of egg clusters of the "Gipsy Moth" had been found on these 

 trees. All carload lots went from New Hampshire and Maine and had 

 been shipped to many of the States of the Union, including Michigan, 

 Wisconsin, Minnesota, Washington and Oregon, where already grows 

 a plentiful supply of Christmas trees. It was the sense of the inspec- 

 tors present that the Federal Quarantine should be replaced on Christ- 

 inas greens, otherwise several of the States would absolutely quaran- 

 tine the shipments of Christmas trees originating in the moth quaran- 

 tine area. 



(From notes furnished by J. G. SANDERS, Sec'y.) 



[To the total of 84 entomological papers and papers of general bear- 

 ing on entomology, listed on pages 91-96, antea, as presented at the 

 Convocation Week meetings of 1915, the above notes add 9. ED.] 



Feldman Collecting Social. 



Meeting of October 20th, 1915, at the home of H. W. Wenzel, 5614 

 Stewart Street, Philadelphia. Twelve members were present, Pres. 

 Wenzel in the chair. 



Diptera. Mr. Hornig said he had found many mosquito larvae 

 in Cobbs Creek, Pennsylvania, all of which at the time he had consid- 

 ered Culc.r pipicns Linn., but had bred from them some Acdcs jainai- 

 ccusis Theob. 



Lepidoptera. The same speaker said he had found larvae of 

 Jlcmilciicd inahi Dru. at Westville, New Jersey, in 1013, which pupated 

 the same year. Some of these emerged in 1913 and two came out within 

 the present week. Mr. Haimbach recorded Racheospila atripcs Druce 

 from Homestead, Florida, v-14-15, collected by Dr. Castle. The type 

 was described from Panama and is in the Staudinger Collection. 



Coleoptera. Mr. Daecke said he had found many Tc.rntiis 

 triiittdtus Say, which never varied until lie caught one at Cove Alt., 

 Pennsylvania, June 27, 1915, which he exhibited, and which lias the prox- 

 imal portion of the marginal stripes on the elytra missing; also exhib- 



