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Wheeler, W. M. Jamaican ants collected by C. T. Brues, 195, Ixi, 

 457-71. 



Girault, A. A. Notes on Hymenoptera Parasitica [1 n. g.; 2 n. 

 sps.J, 411, xi, 118. Isely, D. A synopsis of the petiolate wasps of 

 the family Eumenidae, found in North America [9 new], 180, x, 

 345-66. Rohwer, S. A. The No. American wasps of the subgenus 

 Pemphredon [4 new], 411, xi, 97-102. 



Doings of Societies. 



Entomological Society of France. 



The treasurer's report of the Entomological Society of France for 

 1916 shows receipts to the amount of 27,670 francs and expenditures 

 (including investments) of 25,400 francs. The capital of the Society 

 December 31, 1916, was 139,038 francs. (Bull. Soc. Ent. France, 1917, 

 No. 7). The Society awarded the Dollfuss prize for 1916 of 300 francs 

 to Prof. Auguste Lameere, of the (University of Brussels, for his works 

 on Prionidae, and the Constant prize of 1916 of 500 francs to J. Sainte- 

 Claire Deville for his Catalogue critique dcs Colcopteres de la Corse 

 (1914)- 



Entomological Section, Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila- 

 delphia. 



Meeting of November 22, 1917, Director Philip Laurent presiding 

 and eight persons present. Henry W. Fowler was elected a contributor. 



Mr. J. A. G. Rehn made a communication on the physiography of sev- 

 eral collecting regions of southern Arizona, illustrated by lantern slides. 



Diptera. Dr. Skinner read an abstract of an article by McDunnell 

 & Eastwood, relative to the overwintering of the house fly. Dr. Cal- 

 vert exhibited larvae of Bibionidae (identified by comparison with fig. 

 225, p. 476, of Vol. vi, Cambridge Nat. Hist.), some of a very great num- 

 ber found near Media, Pennsylvania, November n, 1917, by Dr. J. P. 

 Moore. The larvae were observed in an area of about two square feet, 

 at a depth of 2-3 inches, in soil near a peach tree, on which soil goat 

 manure, mingled with decaying corn stalks and forest leaves, had been 

 placed in the preceding winter. He referred to similar observations in 

 the work cited, in Packard's "Guide to the Study of Insects," and in 

 Kellogg's "American Insects." 



Lepidoptera. Mr. Laurent presented two specimens of .-Ictha- 

 loptcra ant'.caria Walker fn.im Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania, and blown 

 larvae of three species of Dataua. He also exhibited an interesting ab- 

 normal male of Saniia cccropia. also a female cccrofiia seven and one- 

 eighth inches in expanse. The speaker stated that this was the largest 



