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8th, and, from his observations, thought that the flies must be 

 parasitic. As soon as the nest was disturbed the flies started 

 to run into the galleries, and the ants kept snapping at them. 

 The flies seemed to be very common ; as they crawled into the 

 ants' galleries very rapidly ; only two were taken. 



Dr. Skinner showed the elytra and abdomen of a female of 

 Strategus antaeus which had been given to him by Mr. A. E. 

 Brown, of the Philadelphia Zoological Society, who stated 

 that the parts shown had been passed by a water moccasin. 

 Mr. vSeiss said that he thought this could be explained by the 

 fact that bullfrogs eat a great many insects, and a snake must 

 have swallowed a frog which had eaten this specimen. Prof. 

 Smith stated that the specimen was a female. 



Mr. Wenzel reported from Chew's Landing, N. J., .Int/io- 

 nonnis disjunct us, taken, September 6th, on a fall flower. 



Mr. Daecke spoke about a lake which he had run across 

 near Manumuskin, N. J., and stated that it seemed like a 

 portion of Florida transferred to Jersey. 



Prof. Smith spoke of the egg-laying habits of Scuddcria tex- 

 ensis Sauss., the species which is destructive on cranberry 

 bogs. It is found that eggs are deposited in the leaves of 

 species of Panicum, preferably viscidum and, as a second 

 choice, dichotomum. The ovaries contain from 12 to 15 tubes 

 on each side, and, when first developing, each tube con- 

 tains 5 almost equally developed egg-cells. The possibilities 

 would therefore seem to be 150 eggs to an individual. As a 

 matter of fact, only the lower egg in each tube develops, and 

 30 would seem to be the limit of ova deposited by a single 

 individual. Egg-laying begins about the middle of Septem- 

 ber, and continues for nearly a month, the ova developing 

 gradually in the individual. It is probable that six eggs 

 placed at one time by one specimen comes nearer the limit. 



In the general discussion on mosquitoes Prof. Smith states 

 positively that more than one-third of all the specimens in 

 South Jersey are sollicitaus, the salt marsh species ; that they 

 may be blown or fly twenty miles or more inland, and that he 

 has never found their larvae at such points, though the adult 

 females occurred in myriads ; that even along shore where salt 

 and fresh water merged sollicitans larvae were never found in 



