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the Scale Insects.* C. H. HADI.EY, JR., State College, Pa., and ROBERT 

 MATHEWSON, Ithaca, N. Y., The 1916 Outbreaks of the 17-Year Lo- 

 cust in Western New York. A. H. HOLLINGER, Taxonomic Value of 

 Antennal Segments of Certain Coccidae.* J. G. SANDERS and D. M. 

 BELONG, Jassoidea of Wisconsin, with New Species.* See also under 

 Embryology: Bueno; under Physiology: Kohnhauser ; tinder Ecology: 

 Gossard. Osborn ; under Insects Injurious to Plants: Glenn. Kelly, 

 Merrill, Osborn, Smith. 



THYSANOPTERA. See under Physiology: Shull. 



HYMENOPTERA. See under Embryology: Zappe ; under Physi- 

 ology : Kornhauser, Mclndoo ; under Ecology : Becquaert ; under In- 

 sects Injurious to Plants : Phillips. 



Feldman Collecting Social. 



Meeting of September 2oth, 1916, at the home of H. W. Wenzel, 

 5614 Stewart Street, Philadelphia, Pa. ; fourteen members and one visi- 

 tor present. President H. A. Wenzel in the chair. 



Coleoptera. Mr. Laurent exhibited two 5 Scaphinotus riduus Dej., 

 which he collected at Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania, July 29, 1916. Mr. 

 Kaeber said he had always heard it reported that the females of the 

 Cyclocephalac were rare and had found it so himself, only having ob- 

 tained one female in several seasons' collecting until this year in Phil- 

 adelphia Neck. He collected also many Ochrosidca villosa Burm. at 

 light, July ii to July 14, many in coitu, and in all fifty or sixty females. 

 Mr. Hornig exhibited a specimen of the oriental longicorn Mclainist^. 

 chincnsis Forst., collected near Wayne Avenue, in Germantown, Au- 

 gust 6, 1916: also two Ciciiidcla umpunctata Fab. from Alloway, N. J., 

 August 6, 1916. Mr. Hoyer showed pieces of cedar wood which have 

 been in a cellar in Oak Lane all summer and are completely riddled 

 with some Coleopterous larvae. Mr. H. W. Wenzel exhibited six 

 speciments of a Helops, which H. A. Wenzel and he had collected on 

 leaves of oak at Millville, New Jersey, July 15, 1916; this approaches 

 cisteloides Germ., which he formerly had only from Missouri ; also 

 Polyphylla variolosa Hentz, which was exceedingly common at light at 

 Anglesea, New Jersey, July 3, 1916, but all specimens captured were 

 males. Mr. Geo. M. Greene exhibited three species of Lcma, which he 

 had collected at Plummer's Island, Maryland, August 30, 1916; L. sc.v- 

 punctata Oliv. ; L. albini Lac. and L. n. sp. 



Lepidoptera. Mr. Hornig said he had found many hairy Lepiclop- 

 terous larvae on fungus at Alloway, New Jersey, but all died before 

 he had the opportunity to identify them. Mr. Daecke said he had seen 

 a female Papilio ajax Linn, flying at Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, July 23, 

 which settled on a paw-paw tree and laid eggs singly here and there ; 

 on same day he had seen larvae, large and small, so that he had seen 

 all the stages in one day except the pupa ; he said that the food plant 



