July, '09] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 335 



A regular meeting of the Entomological Section of the 

 Chicago Academy of Sciences was held March i8th at the 

 John Crerar Library. Eight members present. Messrs. 

 Neubarth, Beer, Liljeblad and Kwiat exhibited their collec- 

 tions of Plusia and allied genera and compared notes. Local 

 captures were reported as follows : 



Xanthopastis titnais (Kwiat, i) Autographa verruca 

 Euthisanotia unio precationis 



" grata brassicae 



Plagiomimicus pitychromus oxygramma 



Stibadittm spumosum (Healy. i) rectangula 



Cirrhophanus triangulifer alias 



Basilodes pcpita (Healy, i) octoscripta 



Plusiodonta compressipalpis selecta (Liljeblad, i) 



Calpe canadcnsis ( Healy, i) 



Panchrysia purpurigera ainpla (Neubrath, i) 



Plusia aerea falcifera 



Plusia balluca hasigera (Kwiat, i) 



Euchalcia vcnusta (Neubarth, i; Abrostola ovolis (Liljeblad, i) 



Beer, i) Ogdoconta cinerola 



contexta Marasmalus inficita 



" putnami Amyna orbica 



Autographa biloba Aletia argillacca 



pseudogamma Anomis erosa 



Among the Coleopterists, Mr. Wolcott exhibited specimens 

 of Phytonomus castor, Lee. and the curious transparent web- 

 like cases formed by the larvae in which the transformation 

 to adult takes place. He called attention to the recently pub- 

 lished paper on the distribution of the North American species 

 of his genus by R. L. Webster (ENT. NEWS, February, 1909), 

 in which it is stated that "with Leconte's original description 

 of Phytonomus castor, Canada is given as a locality for its 

 occurrence. No other records of the species were found." 

 The specimens exhibited were taken by Mr. Kwiat as larvae 

 on a species of ground pea at Palos Park, 111., May 30, 1907, 

 and transformed to adult June 28, 1907. The species was de- 

 termined by Dr. H. C. Fall. 



Mr. Wolcott further stated that the Haliplus nitons shown 



