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species, including 2000 types and co-types, and is, I believe, the most im- 

 portant collection of that family ever brought to this country, and I hope 

 to make it the nucleus of a larger collection, so that all our foreign mate- 

 rial will not have to go to Europe for names. I thought the acquisition 

 of this collection might be of sufficient interest to warrant a little notice in 

 the NEWS. 



I suppose my 50 page paper on Pachybrachys would hardly interest the 

 NEWS, it is a resume of all the known species of United States and dis- 

 criptions of new forms. FRED. C. BOWDITCH. 



MR. EDWARD P. VAN DUZEE, librarian of the Grosvenor Library, 

 Buffalo, N. Y., has recently published an interesting paper in the Bulletin 

 of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, ix, pp. 149-230, entitled "Ob- 

 servations on some Hemiptera taken in Florida in the Spring of 1908." 

 Two new genera and 29 new species are described. 



Doings of Societies. 



At a regular meeting of the Feldman Collecting Social held, 

 March 17, 1909, at 1523 South i3th Street, Philadelphia, twelve 

 members were present. President Harbeck in the chair. 



The members had a discussion on the Pennsylvania species 

 of Cychrus, of which Mr. Wenzel said there were six species and 

 one variety : viduus, elevatus, ridingsii, andrewsii, stenostomus, 

 var. lecontii, and canadensis. 



Mr. L/aurent spoke on various lists of L,epidoptera, and said 

 when names have been changed and species placed under differ- 

 ent genera they were very hard to find ; thinks A. O. U. have 

 the ideal way of arranging same. In the new lists under each 

 species they give the number in the previous lists where these 

 can be found. This lead to a long discussion on lists of differ- 

 ent orders: Coleoptera, Diptera, etc., and way of arranging 

 genera and species. 



Mr. Harbeck said in some cases where two species are almost 

 identical they have a different way of acting when alive, and i* 

 some of the entomologists who do descriptive work would do 

 more field work it would not leave them in any doubt as to 

 where to place them. 



Mr. Daecke exhibited a specimen from State collection of a 

 rare dusky form of Colias philodicc Godt. found near Harrisburg. 



Mr. Kaeber exhibited a small copper oven for drying insects. 



GEO. M. GREENE, Secretary. 



