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Half-Shell ; Broiled Pupte in Case ; Ox Bot Soup ; Baked Belostoina ; 

 Blattis Roe ; Roast Dynasfes, stuffed with Apple Worms ; Fried Regali* 

 Larvae, horns removed ; Cicada Steak, with New Mushroom Sauce ; 

 Galls Sens Lat ; Drawn Sphin.v Tongues, braided ; Pickeled Lady Birds 

 Feet ; American All-Alive Cheese ; Imported Canfhon Pellets ; Fungus 

 Pie, Staphylinid Dressing ; Cychrns Knuckles ; Mud Wasp's Nests, with 

 Jiggadobber Jelly ; Extract de Cimex ; Beer a la Brachynus ; Pink Anli- 

 opa Milk ; Sparkling Double-distilled jersey Lightning (Bugs), bottled at 

 Jamesburg under the supervision of the State Entomologist. Flies on 

 the members were carefully removed by the waiters who secured a 

 bushel. Cyanide, Chloroform, Sulphuric, Ether, Benzine, Naphthaline, 

 Le Page's Glue and Bisulphide of Carbon were on tap. Other dainties, 

 too numerous to mention, were served. Plasters of Cantharis vcsicatoria 

 were supplied to all needing them. It is hoped that the hilarious time at 

 this this dinner will induce a greater attendance next year. 



Doings of Societies. 



A meeting of the Feldman Collecting Social was held April 

 lyth, at the residence of Mr. H. W. Wenzel, 1523 S. i3th 

 St. Eleven members present. 



Mr. Boerner read a letter which he had received from our 

 fellow-member, Mr. Philip L/aurent, who is at Enterprise, 

 Florida, and he stated that the locality where Dr. Castle and 

 he had collected the last time they were there had been burnt 

 over and the collecting was very poor. On behalf of Mr. 

 Laurent, Mr. Boerner presented each member with a beautiful 

 souvenir from Miami, Florida. 



Mr. Wenzel spoke upon and exhibited the Pselaphid />rr- 

 a.v/s honker taken at Anglesea, New Jersey, and Nisaxis fo- 

 mentosa also found at Anglesea, which he had previously re- 

 ceived from Florida. From the manner in which some of the 

 Pselaphids are found they might be called subaquatic. In 

 speaking of the difference in sexes he said that in /?. liini^fr 

 the males outnumbered the females, while in A 7 , abdominal^ 

 the females outnumbered the males. He showed some work 

 done by a species of Scolytns in the woody fibre of the sumach 

 which he had found at Frankford, Pa. 



Dr. Skinner spoke upon the preservation of insects from 

 pests, and in twenty years' experience had found that the case 

 which contains the drawers, or boxes, was a very important 



