May, '05] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 159 



At the meeting of the Feldman Collecting Social held March 

 n, 1905, at the residence of Mr. H. \V. Wenzel, 15238011111 

 i3th Street, Philadelphia, eleven members were present and 

 Mr. Carl Schaeffer, of Brooklyn, visitor. 



Mr. Schaeffer spoke of his table of genera of the Cassidiui 

 and showed color drawings of Coptocycla bicolor, and spoke of 

 the difficulty of separating the same. 



Prof. John B. Smith spoke of the great attack of the maple 

 scale Pulvinaria innumerabilis on the shade maples in the 

 eastern part of New Jersey, and stated that a large proportion 

 of the insects are dying off. There were an enormous number 

 of young larvae discovered last fall, but by shaking and hitting 

 trees they drop off and gradually dry up ; there was some 

 parasitism discovered at the same time ; at the present time it 

 is too early to know just what the outcome will be. There 

 was a soot fungus present in the same localities where scales 

 were seen. 



Mr. Wenzel spoke of the scarcity of insects last year which 

 was discussed by the members. Prof. Smith remarked that 

 New Jersey was practically exempt from Hcliothis armiger 

 last year and suggested that the heavy frosts were likely re- 

 sponsible for their extermination. Prof. Smith further stated 

 that absence of parasites last year will very likely account for 

 the many larvae which have been turned up by the collectors 

 during winter. 



Mr. Wenzel exhibited a large number of specimens of 

 Rhagium lineatum, collected on March i2th at Red Bank, 

 Gloucester County, N. J. 



Mr. Daecke spoke of progess in all orders, and particularly 

 in Tabanidae. He remarked that he had taken 20 species of 

 Chrysops in New Jersey, 3 of which are new to list, and i or 

 2 new to science. 



Mr. Laurent spoke of collecting Hetcrachthcs quadrimaculatus 

 from twigs of hickory. 



Mr. Haimbach spoke about Dcsmia fnncralis and variety 

 subdivisalis , pointing out that, so far as he had observed, all 

 fnneralis specimens are males, and all subdivisalis specimens 

 females, which necessarily will drop out name subdivisalis. 



FRANK HAIMBACH, 



