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of Desmia funeralis Hhn. was commonly grape leaves, but he had 

 reared one from "evening primrose ;" the common food plant for 

 Pantagraplia limata G. and R. is oak, but he had reared one from 

 linden; he exhibited and recorded Pyrausta unifascialis Pack, from 

 Rockville, Pennsylvania, May 28, 1916. 



Diptera. Mr. Hornig said he observed at his laboratory at City 

 Hall larvae of Psorophora ciliata Fabr. feeding on larvae of other 

 mosquitoes. Mr. Daecke exhibited a specimen of Promachus rufipcs 

 Fabr., which he collected at Ocean Gate, New Jersey, August 20, 1916; 

 at the April meeting he recorded the first capture of this species in 

 New Jersey. 



Hymenoptera and Strepsiptera. Mr. Geo. M. Greene said the wasp 

 exhibited at the June meeting had been identified for him while in 

 Washington, D. C., by Mr. Rohwer as Sphcx picipcnnis and later dis- 

 sected by Dr. Pierce and found to contain two pupae of Hupathocera 

 sp.? 



Adjourned to the annex. 



Meeting of October i8th, 1916, at the same place. Eleven members 

 and one visitor were present, President H. A. Wen/eel in the chair. 



Coleoptera. Mr. H. W. Wenzel exhibited Cicindcla rugifrons Dej. 

 from Manahawkin, Bamber and Pine Beach, New Jersey; also report- 

 ed C. abdominalis Fabr. from the latter two places in September and 

 stated that all Cicindelae were common in above region this season. 



Diptera. Dr. Skinner spoke of finding the larvae of a Ciitcrcbra 

 in living white rabbits on his farm near Narberth, Pennsylvania. 



Orthoptera. Mr. Laurent exhibited GryUus domcsticits Linn, tak- 

 en at Mt. Airy, Pennsylvania, September 14, 1916. 



Adjourned to the annex. 



Meeting of November I5th, 1916, at the same place. Eleven mem- 

 bers were present. Prof. J. G. Sanders, State Zoologist of Pennsyl- 

 vania, visitor; President H. A. Wenzel in the chair. 



Prof. Sanders gave an interesting talk on the State Zoological De- 

 partment, past, present and future. Dr. Skinner related his experiences 

 with this department in the past. 



Lepidoptera. Mr. Daecke stated that he had collected this summer 

 three species of galls of the genus Gnorimoschema on three different 

 species of "Golden Rod" at three different localities: Peters Mt. and 

 Neversink Mt., Pennsylvania, and Ocean Gate, New Jersey. The 

 plants were kept in flower pots under observation. August iSth a 

 specimen hatched, but got away, when the remaining galls were prompt- 

 ly covered with veiling. On September 2nd a Gnorimoschema was 

 found resting outside of a screened gall and since no other specimen 



