Jan., '09] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 45 



her plant about one and a half inches in diameter, which while 

 in a greenhouse had been penetrated through and through 

 by four species of scolytid beetles. 



At a regular meeting of the Feldman Collecting Social held 

 this evening at 1523 South I3th Street, Philadelphia; the 

 following members were present : Dr. Castle, Messrs. H. A. 

 Wenzel, H. W. Wenzel, Seiss, Laurent, Schmitz, Harbeck, 

 ITaimbach, C. T. and G. M. Greene. 



Vice-President Harbeck in the chair. 



The absence of the Secretary at the beginning of the meet- 

 ing prohibited the reading of minutes of previous meeting. 



Mr. Wenzel, Sr. made several remarks on Buprcstis decora 

 and read extracts from a letter from Southern Pines, N. C. 

 saying this species had emerged from pine in wood box in 

 room in December. Coleoptera, the speaker said, often mature 

 in the fall, hibernate in the imago state and emerge during the 

 first warm spell in spring. Earliest date for B. ultramarina 

 is IV-I9, collected at Westville. 



Mr. Laurent stated he had a male specimen of Dcilcphila 

 lineata to emerge on Oct. 23rd. Said he had never in his ex- 

 perience had any species of Sphingidae emerge later than Oct. 

 ist when pupae had been kept out of doors. The several days 

 of warm weather we had at that time was supposed to account 

 for this. 



Dr. Castle inquired about baking insects to quickly dry and 

 set them. Said he had put light brown specimens of Donacia 

 picastri.v in oven where temperature was very high and had 

 been called away and when the specimens were taken out, 28 

 hours later, they were bright green in color. These were ex- 

 hibited. This was discussed by the members, Mr. Haimbach 

 stating he treated all his specimens this way without harm ex- 

 cept putting a sheen on the wings of Odonata and said it was 

 very good when collecting at the shore where air was contin- 

 ually moist ; insects dried in the regular way there were no- 

 ticed to droop their wings in a couple of weeks' time. 



Mr. Harbeck exhibited six species of the Anthomyid genus 



