J t O ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Jan., 'iS 



pwictn1ata Sch., and Buprestis nltraniarina Say. J. W. GREEN, Asst. 

 Secretary. 



Meeting of June 20, 1917, at the same place, nine members present, 

 President Wenzel in the chair. 



Coleoptera.- Mr. Daecke reported taking in numbers Anthrcnus 

 verbose i Linn, on pink Splrea in his garden at Harrisburg, Pennsyl- 

 vania, on June 18, 1917, and suggested that it would be an economic 

 feature to have Splrea growing and collect and destroy this species; 

 also stated that Prof. Sanders had determined the following species 

 of Lachnostcrna: L. inversa, tristis crcnulata, gibbosa, arcuata, fusca 

 and hirticula feeding on willow at Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania, June 

 13, 1917, L. implicita at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, /,. dubia, inversa, 

 fusca, hirticula and gibbosa at Northbrook, Pennsylvania, June 9, 1917, 

 and L. fusca, dubia. illicis and gibbosa at Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, 

 June 14, 1917. Dr. Castle reported taking Brachystilits acutus at 

 Glasgow, Delav;are, June 8, 1917. Mr. Wenzel reported the capture of 

 Buprestis nltraniarina at Whitneys, New Jersey, May 20, 1917. FRANK 

 HAIMBACH, Secy, pro tern. 



Meeting of September 18, 1917, at the same place, eight members 

 present, President Wenzel in the chair. 



Lepidoptera.-' Mr. H. A. Wenzel spoke of a flight of Danais arcJiip- 

 pus on September 4th at Ocean City, New Jersey; they were flying in 

 a southwesterly direction; toward evening he observed them settling 

 on a tree, and there were so many specimens that the tree was prac- 

 tically obscured. Mr. Daecke exhibited Brotolomia iris, which Dr. 

 Castle beat from oak at Linglestown, June 28, 1917, a specimen of 

 Hacmatopis ijrataria forma aunctaria Haimbach, taken at Pextang, 

 Aug. I, 1917. and Pamphila sassacns, taken at Inglenook, June 3, 1917, 

 all in Pennsylvania. 



Orthoptera. Mr. Huntington spoke of a plague of locusts that he 

 observed on the outskirts of Pottstown, Pennsylvania, on September 

 10, 1917; entire fields were cleaned out. 



Coleoptera. Mr. H. W. Wenzel exhibited a collection made this 

 year by himself and son, H. A. Wen/eel, of South Jersey Cicindelidae, 

 nearly 300 specimens, 14 species. Among them was the minute form 

 of C. hirticollis from Ocean City, August 2oth. Dr. Castle reported 

 that collecting has been very poor this year; he had taken Goes tcssel- 

 lata at Hayden, Maryland, on June 22, 1917. 



Diptera. Mr. Daecke exhibited Hacmatopola punclulata, collected 

 by Prof. Sanders at Weaver, Pennsylvania, June 24, 1917. FRANK 

 HAIMBACH, Secy, pro tern. 



The number of the NEWS for December, 1917, was mailed at the 

 Philadelphia Post Office on December 7, 11)17. 



