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Coleoptera. Mr. Kaeber exhibited a specimen of Ligyrus rugiceps 

 LeC., which he collected at light, Philadelphia Neck, July 19, 1915. Mr. 

 H. W. Wenzel exhibited two boxes of about a thousand specimens of 

 Aleocharinids, which were collected by the Wenzels, Senior and 

 Junior, the past summer ; he showed a funnel arrangement containing 

 a wire mesh, the funnel fitting in the neck of a cyanide bottle, and 

 when fungi are placed in the funnel the staphylinids drop through the 

 wires into the bottle. 



Diptera. Mr. Daecke exhibited a specimen of Promachus rufipcs 

 Fabr., collected by Morgan Hebard, at Cedar Springs, New Jersey, 

 August 26, 1914. This is new to the State. 



Adjourned to the annex. 



Meeting of May 17, 1916, at the same place. Twelve members and 

 one visitor present. President H. A. Wenzel in the chair. 



Diptera. Mr. Hornig stated he had seen the first live local larvse of 

 Aedcs canadcnsis Theob. on April 13, and of A. sylvestris Theob. on 

 April 21. Mr. Daecke exhibited some leaves from an oak tree near 

 Conewago, Pennsylvania, May 13, which with the rest of the leaves on 

 this tree had the edges rolled up and browned ; these contain Cecid- 

 omyid larvse. 



Coleoptera. Mr. Haimbach said he had seen the first Lachnos- 

 tcrna at light on his place, Homebrook, Narberth, Pennsylvania, on 

 May i. Mr. Laurent said he had collected many Silpha on a dead hog 

 in Levy County, Florida, this spring after the buzzards finished with it 

 and was surprised to notice that many of them had a small piece miss- 

 ing from the edge of one elytron, and in most cases the right one ; S. 

 americana Linn, and inacqualis Fabr. were exhibited showing this. Mr. 

 H. W. Wenzel exhibited Pseudocleis picta Rand, and both its varie- 

 ties, minor Casey and hudsonica Casey. 



Coleoptera and Hymenoptera. Mr. Daecke exhibited three galls 

 from Pinus amcricanus, collected at Rockville, Pennsylvania, April 16, 

 1916, from which on April 30, 1916, one Podapion gallicola Riley 

 emerged with two small Hymenoptera, presumably parasites of same. 



Adjourned to the annex. 



GEO. M. GREENE, Secretary. 



Chicago Entomological Club. 



Meeting of March 19, 1916, at home of Mr. Emil Beer. Seventeen 

 members present. 



Lepidopterists had the Sesiidae as a subject and compared speci- 

 mens. Local captures reported were: Melittia satyrinifonnis feeding 

 in melon vines, Pndoscsia syrinijac feeding in ash and lilac, Mcmythrus 

 tricinctus feeding in poplar, Mcmythrns asilipcnnis feeding in oak 



