I2O ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Mar., 'l8 



cocoons. The same speaker reported from Springfield, Delaware 

 County, Pennsylvania, Sept. 23 and 29, Cicindcla punctulata, \2-gut- 

 tata, and rcpanda, and remarked that this was after several hard 

 frosts. Mr. J. W. Green recorded from Phillipsburg, New Jersey, 

 Languria lecontei on giant ragweed, July i: Saprimts fitcliii, May 20; 

 and Dialytcs striatulus Sept. 9. J. W. GREEN, Asst. Secy. 



Meeting of November 2ist, 1917, at the same place. Eleven mem- 

 bers present, Pres. H. A. Wenzel in the chair. 



Diptera. -Mr. Daecke exhibited the galls of Eurosta conspurcata 

 Doane and E. clsa, Daecke, the differences being very striking. Mr. 

 Hornig recorded fourteen species of mosquitoes found this summer 

 within the Philadelphia city limits: Malarial: Anopheles puncti- 

 pcnnis Say and A. quadrimaculatus Say; Saltmarsh : Acdcs sollicitans 

 Walk., A. taeniorhynchus Wied., A. cant at or Coq. and Culcx salinar- 

 ins Coq.; Swamp: Psorophora ciliata Fabr., Aedes sylveslris Theob. 

 and A. cantons Meig. ; Wood; Aedes triseriatus Say and Psorophora 

 sayi Dyar and Knab ; House : Cnlcx restnans Theob., C. pipcns Linne 

 and C. saxatilis Grossb. 



Coleoptera. Mr. Hornig exhibited specimens of Popilia japonica 

 Newm., an injurious insect which has recently gained a foothold at 

 Riverton, New Jersey, having been introduced from Japan through 

 Dreer's Nurseries. Mr. J. W. Green exhibited Laccophilus incon- 

 spicuus Fall from Edmonton, Canada, vi-i2 and Nitidula nlgra Schaef- 

 fer same place, viii-6, both collected by F. S. Carr. Mr. Geo. M. 

 Greene exhibited the following species all collected this year by him- 

 self ; Panagacus fasciatus Say, East Falls Church, Virginia, vii-i, 

 Zenoa picea Beauv., same place, vi-3, Bellamira scalaris Say, same 

 place, vi-3, Eburia quadrifjeminata Say, at light, Plr.mmer's Island, 

 Maryland, vii-2i, Chionanthobius schwarzi Pierce, same place, viii-s, 

 on Chionanthus (fringe tree), Qctotoma plicatula Fabr., same place, 

 vi-24, and A call odes ventricosus LeC., Maryland shore near Plum- 

 mer's Is., vi-23. He also exhibited the series of Pytho and Tricrania 

 recorded at the April meeting. (See p. 39, this volume). 



Meeting of December iQth, 1917, at the same place. Nine members 

 present, Pres. H. A. Wenzel in the chair. 



Coleoptera. Dr. Castle exhibited four specimens of a Pachnaens 

 he had collected in Detroit, Florida, v-15 and 16, which do not agree 

 with our two species. 



Mr. Geo. M. Greene called attention to an easily explained "minor" 

 mistake occurring in the minutes in Ent. News xxv, p. 89, Feb., 1914, 

 where he mentions Barren Hill, Virginia this should be Miner's Hill. 

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



