442 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Dec., 'OQ 



At a regular meeting of the Feldman Collecting Social, held 

 September 15, 1909, at 1523 S. I3th Street, Philadelphia, thir- 

 teen members were present. President Harbeck in the chair. 



A letter was read from Mr. J. A. Grossbeck, Secretary of 

 the Newark Entomological Society, inviting the Feldman to 

 the celebration of the 25th anniversary of that Society. The 

 Secretary was instructed to answer this, thanking them for 

 same. 



Mr. Wenzel said that at the present time the marshes in "the 

 Neck" are perfectly dry and that Cicadas are very numerous. 

 They settle on the end of the reeds where they "sing their little 

 song." 



Prof. Smith said in New Brunswick after the Pennsylvania 

 Railroad had elevated the tracks through that place and had 

 brought sand for the embankments from outlying districts the 

 large wasp Sphecius speciosus Dru. bred there and has almost 

 exterminated the Cicadas, and that there were hundreds of 

 them before the Cicadas appeared. Mr. Davis, instead of col- 

 lecting Cicadas finds a colony of these wasps and there waits 

 and takes the Cicadas as the wasps bring them in. Mr. Har- 

 beck said he had the wasps sent to him from the Perkiomen 

 where there is a colony of them. 



Mr. Wenzel read an interesting, humorous, clipping on the 

 wasp Eunicncs, taken from an advertising newspaper. 



Prof. Smith exhibited a large 9 carpenter ant Camponotus 

 and a half grown Pentatomid. At first sight he thought it was 

 the ant with her prey, but on closer inspection he saw that the 

 Hemipteron had its beak in the abdomen of the ant and was 

 allowing itself to be dragged along, sucking away all the time 

 until the specimens were picked up. 



Mr. Wenzel exhibited a Mantispa bninnea Say collected by 

 him at Da Costa, N. J., July 4, 1909. 



Mr. Daecke exhibited leaves and fruit of paw paw from 

 Harrisburg, also Tortrix fumifcraua Clem. July 21, 1909, at 

 light in untold numbers and said it had been reported from the 

 neighboring districts as common (Dr. Skinner said it was com- 

 mon here at the same time). A pupa shell of a micro in paw 



