May, '08] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 24! 



ing- the life histories and the great variation of this group and 

 an undescribed variety and also explaining the habits. Dis- 

 cussed by the members. 



Mr. Greene read a Dipterous communication from C. T. 

 Greene on Platypeza ornatipes Townsend. Mr. Aldrich de- 

 scribed this genus and its typical species from Champaign, 

 111., in 1894. It has since been taken in Ithaca, N. Y., and 

 Brookings, S. D. Mr. Greene took a $ specimen of this spe- 

 cies at Lehigh Gap, September 25, 1906, sitting on leaf of wild 

 grape, making the fourth record of its capture and the first in 

 Pennsylvania. It has remarkable hind tarsi, a drawing- of 



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which was shown from Aldrich's paper in ENTOMOLOGICAL 

 NEWS, 1906, p. 123, fig. 2. 



Mr. Viereck mentioned larvae taken from decomposed ma- 

 ple and exhibited photo of same which is most likely a Mallota. 

 He also showed photo of larvae taken from stomach of horse 

 most likely Gastrophilus equi. 



Mr. Kaeber said he had found larvae in hickory shoots 

 (which had been injured by fire) at Clementon, N. J., in the 

 spring of 1906. Judging from the amount of work done in 

 the wood they had undoubtedly been there in the summer of 

 1905. The imagoes were cut from the same wood March 15, 

 1908, and turned out to be the Longicorn Stenosphenus nota- 

 tits. 



Mr. Wenzel had on exhibition the Coleoptera collected in 

 Arizona last summer by his son Mr. H. A. Wenzel while in 

 company with Mr. Kaeber. These filled twenty-one boxes and 

 approximated 12,000 specimens. He made remarks on same, 

 mentioning rarities and new species. 



Dr. Skinner congratulated them on the fine collection and 

 spoke of his trip to the same locality. 



Mr. Huntington explained the new Lumiere color photogra- 

 phy process. 



Prof. Smith said his photographer had experimented with 

 these plates and had succeeded in making beautiful lantern 

 slides. 



GEO. M. GREENE, Ass't. Secretary. 



