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rium of the frit-fly, 504, xiv, 313-16. Rohrbach, P. Zwei ubel des 

 eingeborenenlebens in unseren kolonien, 456, 1915, 111-3. Steche, 

 O. Die schwimmblasen der buschelmucke, Corethra plumicornis, 

 66, xii, 157-60. Strickland, C. The comparative morphology of 

 the Anophelines Nyssomyzomyia ludlowi & N. rossi, 313, v, 321-4. 



Felt, E. P. A study of gall midges, IT. [l new genus, 3 n. sps.], 

 204, Bui. 175, 79-242. Knab, F. Two new sps. of Pipunculus, 161, 

 xxviii, 83-86. Brauer on generic values in the Muscoidea; The 

 Nemocera not a natural group of D., 180, viii, 91-2; 93-8. Town- 

 send, C. H. T. On proper generic conceps, 180, viii, 85-90. 



COLEOPTERA. King, I. N. The C. of Henry County, Iowa, 

 34, xxi, 317-40. Kuhne, O. Der tracheenverlauf im flugel der 

 koleopterennymphe, 97, cxii, 692-718. Prochnow, O. Das sprin- 

 gen der schnellkaefer, physikalisch betrachtet, 81, xxxv, 84-93. 



Fall, H. C. The west coast species of Pedilus [11 new names], 

 189, vii, 10-31. 



Doings of Societies. 



Entomological Section, Academy of Natural Sciences of 



Philadelphia. 



Meeting of March 25th, 1915, Mr. Philip Laurent, Director, presiding. 

 Eight persons present. Mr. R. C. Williams was elected a member. 



Lepidoptera. -Dr. Calvert communicated some observations he made 

 in Costa Rica on the caudal brush-like appendages of the male of the 

 butterfly Lycorea atergatis, exhibited specimens and drawings showing 

 the brushes and explained the manner by which such brushes are 

 exserted. 



Diptera. Mr. Laurent read an account from a newspaper which 

 said that in the early days in Philadelphia the house-flies were so bad 

 on Market or High Street that many business people left it and moved 

 to Chestnut Street, whereby the latter became a business street. 



E. T. CRESSON, JR., Secretary pro tern. 



Feldman Collecting Social. 



Meeting of March I7th, 1915, at the home of Dr. Skinner, Glenn Road, 

 Ardmore, Pennsylvania. Eleven members and three visitors were 

 present. President Wenzel in the chair. 



Coleoptera. Dr. Skinner exhibited pieces of board (ash) brought 

 him by a lumber firm, part of what had been supplied for a row of 

 dwellings, and which were riddled by Lyctns planicollis LeC., living 

 specimens having been found in the pieces shown. He was told the 



