ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 411 



Doings of Societies. 



At the regular monthly meeting of the Newark Entomologi- 

 cal Society, held in the Turn Hall January i_|.th, the following 

 officers were elected: President, Mr. S. T. Kemp; ]'icc-Pn si- 

 dent, Mr. O. Buchholz ; Secretary, Mr. Win. H. Broadwell ; 

 Treasurer, Mr. S. Seib ; Librarian, Mr. J. Engelman, and 

 Curators, Mr. H. Brehme and Mr. Bischoff. 



WM. H. BROADWELL, Sec. pro tan. 



At the January meeting of the Feldmaii Collecting Social, 

 held at the residence of Mr. H. W. Wenzel, 1523 So. i3th St., 

 eleven persons were present. 



This being the annual meeting of the society, the President 

 delivered his address, reviewing the progress of the society and 

 dwelling on the good fellowship existing among the members. 



Mr. P. Laurent exhibited specimens of a dipteron which he 

 had found at Silver Lake, Wasatch Mts., Utah. Mr. Johnson 

 identified these as belonging to the genus Chironomus, and spoke 

 on habits of certain species of that genus. In one instance, at 

 Palatka, Florida, a species was so abundant as to completely 

 cover the fence-posts. 



Mr. Laurent also exhibited two specimens of Soronia nlkei, 

 taken under fresh chips of wood at Westville, N. J., on May 

 4th. It is a rare coleopteron in this locality. 



Some lumber bored by the larva of Hylotrupes bajulus was 

 also shown. 



Mr. Bland recorded the capture of Apion pit)-/ fan a Fall, in 

 large numbers in May at Westville, N. J. 



Mr. H. Wenzel described collecting in swamps along the New 

 Jersey coast. In such places sifting gives good results for many 

 beetles. On Dec. i4th last he had visited a swamp surrounded 

 by high trees and screened from the sun. Here he had found 

 numbers of species not before met with by him, the coleopter- 

 ous fauna seemng to differ almost entirely from the more open 

 swamps only a short distance beyond. This difference in the 

 faunae seemed to hold true of all open and closed swani] 

 visited. 



