1899] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 51 



DOINGS OF SOCIETIES. 



At the December meeting of the Feldman Collecting Social, 

 nine members were present. Mr. H. Wen/el, on behalf of Dr. 

 Griffith, read a communication on the coleopterous fauna of 

 the Salt River "Valley, Ari/.ona. The northern fauna com- 

 mingles with the Souoran of Mexico. The paper contained a 

 list of five species of Cicimlelida- and seventy-four species of 

 Oarabidte taken by Dr. (Jrifrith. 



Dr. Smith referred to a change of faunas due to the intro- 

 duction of sheep. On one side of a wire fence the lower an 

 stial fauna of the region existed, whereas on the opposiir 

 where the sheep pastured was the common widely distributed 

 fauna of the United States. 



He also exhibited some advance sheets of his forthcoming 

 new editionof the k> Catalogue of the Insects of New Jersex ." 

 pertaining to the Othoptera. The new list will contain 142 

 species of this order against 114 in the old, and every species 

 has a definite record, whereas in the old list many records were 

 merely guess work. The same large percentage of increase 

 was shown in the other orders. He further stated that some 

 specimens of Cmi'icr/i/Hi'iix recently taken in the ''Xeck," 

 Philadelphia, had proven to be ('. </!<i<i;<i!<>r Hi-dt . heretofore 

 only known to occur in Texas and Mexico. 



Mr. Johnson exhibited a specimen of ('innln .sv^/r/m/rm// 

 taken at Edge Hill, Montgomery county, in .June last l>y Mr. 

 H. S. Viereck. It evidently represented brood seventeen due 

 in this State in is.)s, but the speaker had observed no speci 

 mens himself. 



Dr. Smith said the brood due in New .lersex this yeai INKS 

 was peculiar in its distribution ; it crossed the state diagonally 

 from Trenton and then struck northward, though small iso 

 lated broods occurred at Vim-land and near New IJruuswiek. 



\V:\I. .1. F<>\. Secret a rv. 



At the annual meeting of t he American Entomological So 

 ciety held December '_'!', IS'.tS. the following were elected to 

 serve as officers for the year IS'.K); President. Henry < '. Me 

 Cook: Vice President. ('. \\ . .lohnson : Treasurer. !]. T. Cre 

 son ; Kecordinu Secretary. Henry Skinner ; < 'or res pout ling Sec 

 retarv. \V. ,T. Fox; Curator. Henrv Skinner : Librarian. \V . .1 . 



