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DIPTERA. MELANDER, A. L, State College of Washington, Pull- 

 man, Review of the American Species of Scatopsidae. HERMS, W. B., 

 University of California, The Anopheline Mosquitoes of California, 

 Distribution and Ecological Consideration.* See also under "Insects 

 Injurious to Man and Animals." 



HEMIPTERA. BALL, E. D., Agricultural College of Utah, Logan, 

 Some Special Adaptations to Arid Conditions Exhibited by Cercopidae 

 and Membracidae.* WILSON, H. F., Oregon Agricultural College, 

 Corvallis, The Tribe Pterocomini, Family Aphididae.* See also un- 

 der "Physiology," "Insects Injurious to Plants" and "Parasites of 

 Insects." 



HYMENOPTERA. MCCRACKEN, MARY I., Stanford University, 

 Notes on California Cynipidae with Particular Reference to the Species 

 Diplolepis ambrosa Full.* WHEELER, W. M., Harvard University, On the 

 Presence and Absence of Cocoons among Ants, The Nest-Spinning 

 Habits of the Larvae and the Significance of the Black Cocoons of 

 Certain Australian Species.* 



PARASITES OF INSECTS. MCCULLOCH, IRENE, University of 

 California, Flagellates of Hemiptera (Sect. F., A. A. A. S.). 



Newark Entomological Society. 



Meetings were held, in the Newark Public Library on January 10, 

 February 14, March 14 and April 11, 1915. President Buchholz pre- 

 sided at each meeting, the average attendance being ten members. 

 Papers read Relation of Insects to Plants as Destroyers, by Herman 

 H. Brehme; Nursery Insects of New Jersey, by H. B. Weiss; Fleas 

 as Carriers of the Plague, by H. B. Weiss. Mr. Weiss also exhibited 

 three boxes of insects from all orders mounted on Mead's patented 

 pins. 



Lepidoptera During a discussion of the food plants of Catocala 

 tristis Edw., Mr. Keller mentioned breeding Catocala cpionc Dm., on 

 hickory. Mr. Herman Brehme added a touch of spring to the meet- 

 ing of February I4th by exhibiting live specimens of Enmaeus atala. 

 which had emerged from pupae received from Miami, Florida. He 

 also showed a series of Feralia februalis collected February i at Eld- 

 ridge, California. At the meeting of March 14, Mr. Mayfield showed 

 some interesting photographs of Catocala eggs. On April u, Mr. 

 Rummel exhibited blackberry stems injured by Papaipema cataphracta 

 and also cocoons of Telea polyphemus Cram., which contained live 

 pupae after having comparatively large holes burned in them by fire. 

 Mr. Rummell also reported the following captures on March 26 at 

 Upper Montclair, N. J., by beating bushes :Xylina bcthunei C,. & R. 

 (7 spec.), Scopelosoina moffatiana Grt. (7 specimens), 5". fettiti Grt. 

 (2 spec.), S. sidus Gn. (i spec.), on March 31, Copipanolis cubilis Grt. 



