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inilit for market) though it has not lost its predatory habits 

 as a farmer had given him a jar containing hundreds of speci- 

 mens and he only managed to get about a dozen good ones 

 from it. 



Mr. Wenzel remarked on this species, saying he had at 

 one time seen the beach entirely covered with this insect. 



Mr. Daecke said he had been to Browns Mills, N. J., over 

 night and had taken at light a dozen specimens of Lac/oa cris- 

 pata Payk a species of which he had only taken three specimens 

 in all his collecting experience. Had also found Chlaenius pra- 

 ciiiHS Dej. under a board next day. Reported Microdon on- 

 ntlcntns Fab. and Tnchins bibcns Fab. from Dauphin Co. 

 VI-6-O9, and Myrmecomyia inynnccoidcs and Idana marginata 

 Say. from Harrisburg. Also exhibited a specimen of Lcptnra 

 pro.vinia Say., a freak with three antennae collected by Mr. 

 Chamberlain. 



Mr. Wenzel said he had found this Lcptnra and Buprestis 

 rufipcs Oliv. in great numbers under bark where they had 

 died before working their way to the surface. 



Mr. Harbeck exhibited specimens of Asilns flavofemoratits 

 Hine, A. fitscatus Hine, A. ciiiricoinus Hine, A. IccytJnis 

 Walker and A. sa-dytiis Walker, all taken within a few miles of 

 Philadelphia and stated that Professor Hine had been working 

 on a revision of this difficult group with satisfactory results 

 which will be published within a short time. 



Mr. George M. Greene reported that he had put a dried 

 specimen of Coptocycla in the relaxing jar and when it had 

 become moist it resumed its natural golden color. Also said 

 that live specimens of the Japanese Mantis had been placed in 

 the woods at Roxborough and had been seen there 

 alive a few weeks later, proving they had found food upon 

 which to live. 



Mr. C. T. Greene exhibited a specimen of Volncclla -ccsicu- 

 losa Fabr. from Castle Rock, Pa. VI. -6-09. 



Meeting adjourned to the annex. 



GEORGE M. GREENE, Secretary. 



