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Cockerell, T. D. A. Some California bees [3 new], 4, 1916, 

 391-3. Girault, A. A. A new genus of omphaline Eulophidae 

 from N. America [1 n. sp.], 9, 1016, 249-50. Rohwer, S. A.-- -Notes 

 on the Psammocharidae described by Provancher, with descrip- 

 tion of a n. sp., 4, 1916, 369-72. A new bee of the genus Dianthi- 

 dium, 102, xviii, 192-3. Viereck, H. L. New sps. of the bee genus 

 Andrena in the American Mus. of Nat. History [4 new], 153, xxxv, 

 729-32. 



THE LEPIDOPTERIST : Official Bulletin of the Boston Entomological 



Club. 



Volume One, number one (four pages) of this publication has ap- 

 pleared. The editor is Rudolf C. B. Bartsch, Roslindale, Massachusetts. 

 The price of subscription is thirty-five cents a year. The last publica- 

 tion devoted to Lepidoptera exclusively was "Papilio" and it died about 

 thirty-three years ago. "The (Boston) Club has one feature which is 

 new to entomological societies of this country. After each regular 

 business meeting the Club holds an auction sale of specimens belonging 

 to various members. A ten per cent, commission is charged which is 

 placed in the treasury of the Club." Can you imagine such a thing in 

 Boston! The Club advocates the publication of a priced catalog of 

 lepidoptera to facilitate exchange among collectors. The editor appears 

 to be the president of the "Kato Kalo Co.," which deals in the Catacolae 

 of the world. A new species and several new varieties are described, 

 but the dominant idea of the Club and the journal seems to be com- 

 mercialism. There may be a place in the sun for a new journal of this 

 kind which will appeal to the beginner and the collector and we will 

 watch the experiment with interest. If something is not done for the 

 embryo entomologist there is danger that the veterans may die off much 

 faster than the ranks are recruited. The activities of our older ento- 

 mological societies are too profoundly scientific to encourage or interest 

 the tyro, who is to become the scientific entomologist of the future. 

 H. S. 



Doings of Societies. 



American Entomological Society. 



Meeting of October 26, 1916, in the Academy of Natural Sciences of 

 Philadelphia. Dr. Henry Skinner, president, in the chair. Eleven per- 

 sons present. 



Dr. W. J. Holland and Dr. W. L. Abbott were elected to resident 

 membership. 



Mr. Rchn made some interesting remarks on the Arizona field work 

 of the past summer carried on by Dr. F. K. Lutz and himself, in the in- 

 terests of the Academy and of the American Museum of Natural His- 



