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of sketching. Among these were a number of prints showing the bur- 

 rows made by Scolytus rugulosus in apple wood, being so arranged as to 

 show the different stages of the life of these insects. These were the best 

 reproductions the members had ever seen, and the professor attributes 

 his success partly to the use of aristo-platinotype paper and the double 

 toning process. These beetles, he said, first burrow one central gallery 

 and then make small lateral chambers at intervals, laying three or four 

 eggs in each, feeding after every deposit, and repeating this work until a 

 beetle has oviposited five or six times its bulk in eggs during a lifetime. 

 Mr. H. \V. Wenzel exhibited some interesting Coleoptera from Utah, also 

 stating that Anthonomus sycophantus and A. scntcllatus had been cap- 

 tured very commonly on willow in the Orange Mountains, N. J., last 

 Summer. 



It was unanimously resolved that a vote of thanks be extended to Dr. 

 Skinner for the royal manner in which he entertained the social at its 

 List meeting. No further business being presented, the meeting adjourned 

 to the annex at 10.30. 



THEO. H. SCHMITZ, Secretary. 



Tne Entomological Section 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



PROCEEDINGS OF MEETINGS. 



The following papers were read and accepted by the Committee for 

 publication in ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS : 



A NEW VOLUCELLA FROM WASHINGTON. 



By D. W. COQUILLETT, Washington, D. C. 



Among an interesting lot of Diptera received from Prof. O. B. 

 Johnson for naming, was a pair of specimens belonging to the 

 Syrphid genus Volucella ; a careful comparison with the existing 

 descriptions indicates that the species is a new one, and it is 

 therefore duly characterized below. Each of these specimens 

 has the marginal cells of the wings open, and the species would 

 therefore belong to the genus Phalacromyia Rondani, but in the 

 recent paper by E. Giglion-Tos (Ditteri del Messico, Part I) this 

 is merged into Volucclla, since he found that the character of the 

 opened or closed marginal cell varies in the different specimens 

 belonging to the same species. 



