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Hymenoptera. General discussion on Vespula and their 

 nests. Mr. Daecke said he had seen a nest of maculata in the 

 mountains near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, that, instead of 

 being suspended from a limb, was built against the trunk of 

 a tree (about two feet in diameter) four feet above the 

 ground. 



Diptera. Mr. George M. Greene exhibited a specimen of 

 Callicera johnsoni Hunter which he collected in Fairmount 

 Park, Phila., and said he understood it was the seventh speci- 

 men recorded. The type was taken in Fairmount Park by 

 Charles T. Greene, May 7, 1895, resting on the ground, on 

 the east side of the Schuylkill River. The specimen shown 

 was collected May 7, 1914, resting on a tree on the west side 

 of the river, directly opposite where the type was taken. 



Hemiptera. Mr. Laurent exhibited his collection of Cica- 

 didae in which all the species known to occur in New Jersey 

 and Pennsylvania with the exception of one were represented. 

 He stated that the reason the males outnumber the females 

 in collections was owing to the fact that the males alone pro- 

 duce the call or song, thus enabling the collector to locate 

 them. 



Adjourned to the annex. GEORGE M. GREENE, Secretary. 



THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF FRANCE AND THE WAR. 

 At the meeting of October 14, 1914, the President, M. Ch. Alluaud, 

 said : "My dear Colleagues, Since our last reunion [July 22] the 

 greatest armed conflict that history has yet recorded has broken out, 

 the greatest peril that our country has ever run has menaced us. I 

 ask you, since our ancestors of 1870-71 have set us a good example, 

 not to interrupt the course of our meetings under any pretext and to 

 come in as great numbers as possible on the stated days. Your officers 

 make every effort to assure the publication and distribution of the 

 Bulletin. . . .and count, as usual, on your observations and your work. 

 In reading the minutes of our meetings of the winter of 1870-71, I 

 met this passage in the address of Dr. Laboulbene (meeting of Jan. 

 ii, 1871) and I ask your permission to reproduce it literally: 'Our 

 session to-day will perhaps be troubled by the explosion of hostile 

 projectiles, some of which have fallen some paces from this house. ..." 

 You will agree, gentlemen, that it is a case of repetition, that history 



