78 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [March 



DOINGS OF SOCIETIES. 



A regular meeting of the Newark Entomological Society was 

 held at Turn Hall, Sunday, January 8th, at 4 p. ra. President Bis. 

 choft" presided, ten members present. Mr. Broadwell gave a list of 

 captures made by himself and Mr, Weidt at Boonton. N- J., August 

 20, 1898, with notes whether rare or common. 



Crocota rubicundaria, corumou locally. 



Noctua Inbvicans, very commou at Sugar. 



Mamestra legitirna, rare at Sugar. 



Hadena spntatrix, common at Sugar. 



Hadena devastrix, rare at Sugar. 



Hadena modica, rare at Sugar. 



Perigea xanthioides. common at Sugar. 



Hyppa xylinoides, common at Sugar. 



Euplexia lucipara, rare at Sugar. 



Leucania albilinea, rare at Sugar. 



Leucauia pseudargyria, common at Sugar. 



Orthodes infirma, rare at Sugar- 



Pyrophila pyramidoides. very common at Sugar. 



Erastria carneola, common at Sugar. 



Pararellia bistriaris, rare at Sugar. 



Psendoglossa lubricalis, common at Sugar. 



Endropia amcenaria, common in field. 



Metrocampa margaritata, rare in field. 



Acidalia inductata, common in field. 



Boarmia crepesculina. commou in field- 



Xarithorhoe fluctuata, rare in field. 



Phlycteenia tertialis, very common in field. 



Pyrausta in sequalis, rare in field. 



Pyrausta argyralis, common in field. 



Evergestis straminalis, common in field. 



Crambus vulvigellus, common in field. 



Mr. Angleman remarked that he bred Tlydroecfa cat<ij>lu'<t<-t<i on 

 wild lettuce. 



Mr. Weidt reported the capture of Hydroecia necopina at light 

 at Newark. 



Donations were made to the Society's collection by Messrs. 

 Brehme, Weidt, Herpers and Seib. 



Mr. Broadwell remarked that he took a specimen of Hm>t'ii 

 scabra from under the bark of a tree December 24, 1898. 



Mr Augelmau proposed Mr. Ernest Mourner, who was unani- 

 mously elected a member, A. J. WEIDT, Secretary. 



At the meeting of the Feldman Collecting Social held January 18, 

 at the residence of Mr. H. W Weuzel, 1523 South Thirteenth street, 

 Philadelphia, ten persons were present. The President, Dr. D. M. 

 Castle, read his annual address, reviewing the origin and progress of 

 the society. Mr. Wenzel recorded the capture, by silting, of Apion 

 permmut-um, Phtsnonotum exstrfatinn and J'hithi/f/nix cunsor, along 

 the New Jersey shore of the Delaware river, opposite Philadelphia. 



