44 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Jan., '13 



Meeting of September t8, 1912, at 1523 South Thirteenth 

 Street, Philadelphia ; ten members were present. President 

 Haimbach in the chair. 



Mr. Wenzell, ST., exhibited nests of a species of Protapan- 

 telcs from Philadelphia Neck, September 15, from which he 

 had bred this small wasp by the hundreds. These nests have 

 the texture of spider webs for which he had first taken them. 

 He also said that Mr. Green, of Easton, Wenzel, Jr., and he 

 had taken an automobile trip to southern New Jersey the last 

 week in June, touching at Atco, Da Costa, Hammonton, Egg 

 Harbor, May's Landing, Tuckahoe, Cape May Court House, 

 Anglesea, Stone Harbor, Vineland, Millville, Malaga and Wil- 

 low Grove; said that the Weymouth district would be a great 

 place for Dipterists. In the Coleoptera the regular species 

 were found, but in general collecting was very poor. Men- 

 tioned Tcttigea hicroglyphica Say (Horn.), saying it was fre- 

 quently beaten in the net early in the morning when it seemed 

 numb from the cold, but later in the day it could not be caught. 

 Cicindela abdominalis Fabr. was mentioned among the catches 

 and a specimen of Dorcus parallelus Say from the typical brev- 

 is district ; this specimen is smaller than the smallest mentioned 

 in Dr. Horn's paper both are in the Wenzel collection and 

 were shown. The strong lamps from the auto were used at 

 night, but not even a mosquito was attracted. 



Mr. Geo. M. Greene exhibited a very large Megarhyssa 

 atrata Fabr., collected by C. T. Greene, Castle Rock, Pennsyl- 

 vania, June 4, 1911, and an extremely small one collected by 

 W. J. Nash, Overbrook, Pennsylvania, August 8, 1912. 

 Typical specimens, male and female of M. greenei 

 Viereck were also shown and the extremes in size, 

 all collected by W. J. Nash at Overbrook, August n and 

 18, and September 8, 1912. A fine specimen of the moth, 

 Phlegethontius cingulata Sm. and Abb., collected by himself 

 on tree trunk at Overbrook, September 8, 1912, was also 

 shown. Also a specimen of Carabus sylvosus Say, Castle 

 Rock, Pennsylvania, September 2, 1912, with wing aberration. 



Mr. Harbeck exhibited and recorded a butterfly Feniseca 



