360 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Nov.,'l8 



Feldman Collecting Social. 



Meeting of June IQ, 1918, at the home of H. W. Wenzel, 5614 Stew- 

 art Street, Philadelphia; all the members (thirteen) present. President 

 H. W. Wenzel in the chair. 



Lepidoptera. Mr. Huntington said he had been troubled by many 

 clothes moths in his bedroom and was at a loss to find where they 

 bred as he had examined all the clothes in wardrobe and chiffonier, 

 but finally discovered they were breeding in the felt in the heels of his 

 shoes, having completely eaten the pads from several pairs of shoes. 

 Mr. Haimbach recorded a single specimen of Nacophora qucrnaria S. 

 and A., which he collected on his place at Lower Merion Township, 

 Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, VI-3-i8. 



Coleoptera. Mr. Laurent exhibited a series of Ncoclytus crythro- 

 ccphalus Fabr. as well as a section from the trunk of a nine-inch per- 

 simmon tree showing the borings made by the larvae of this beetle. 

 From a twelve-inch log cut from the trunk of the tree eighty-one speci- 

 mens emerged from May loth to June 3rd. The greatest number to 

 appear in one day was on May 21 st, when eighteen beetles emerged. 

 Previously he had bred this species from a three and one-half-inch limb 

 of an English walnut, where they had bored through the entire limb, 

 but in this case only the sap wood was attacked. Mr. H. W. Wenzel 

 said insect life about here seems to be scarce this year, specially good 

 material, and that he is specializing in Elateridae this season, having 

 so far turned up twelve species of Melanotus. Recorded the following 

 Coleoptera collected by H. A. Wenzel and himself: Castle Rock, Penn- 

 sylvania, V-IQ: Lndius (Corymbitcs} tarsalis Melsh. on willow and 

 young walnut, L. (C.) hamatus Say on hickory, Elatcr htcluosus LeC. 

 on willow, their first record, and Lcptura nnitabU's Newm. on hickory, 

 also their first record; Somers Point, New Jersey, V-26: Dicaclus pur- 

 puratus Bon., Typophorus 6-notatns Say on cedar, also several species 

 of Elateridac ; Broomall, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, VI-2: six 

 species of Melanotus, Nothodcs ditbitans LeC., their first record, and 

 Sapcrda puncticollis Say; Millville, New Jersey, VI-8: Aneflomorpha 

 (Elaphidion') aculcatum LeC., Hclops cistcloidcs Germ, (their record 

 for this latter species last year was VII-I5), Cinyra gracilipcs Melsh. 

 on oak and Goes dcbilis LeC. ; Ardmore Junction, Pennsylvania, VI-i6, 

 on elder blooms: four species of Lcplura, lbic<ila Say, ritiata Swed., 

 vagans Oliv. and rubrica Say. GEO. M. GKEENE, Secretary. 



OBITUARY. 



Dr. GUSTAVO LEONARD:, the well known coccidologist, died 

 the 25th of August, 1918, in Yentimiglia, Italy, aged 49 

 years. F. SILVESTRI. 



