344 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [July, '08 



Mr. Kaeber exhibited specimens of a scale insect on branches 

 of cherry. 



Prof. Calvert submitted a plan for dividing the State of 

 New Jersey into districts, for giving localities of insects, in 

 New Jersey list to be published. Maps were shown indi- 

 cating the localities as outlined by him. The plan was con- 

 sidered a good one, but it was the opinion of all that rare spe- 

 cies should be listed from the definite localities in which they 

 have been taken. 



Prof. Calvert remarked that, according to Mr. Witmer Stone, 

 the floras of the Delaware River Valley, and of the coastal 

 strip (excluding the beaches) are identical, but that the flora 

 of the Pine Barrens is distinct. 



Mr. Haimbach exhibited his collection of the Crambinae of 

 North America, showing sixty-six species. Mr. Haimbach 

 pointed out the species Eufernaldia cadercllus Druce, which 

 was described in Biol. Cent. Am. II, p. 290, 1896, and sub- 

 sequently by Dr. Hulst in Jour. N. Y. Ent. Soc., VIII, p. 224, 

 1900. Crambu? bidens and multilineelus were also reported hav- 

 ing been collected in South New Jersey by Mr. E. Daecke. 



Mr. Harbeck exhibited specimens of Spilomyia fusca, longi- 

 cornis, quadrifasciata and hamata, species of a genus of Dip- 

 tera that mimic wasps very closely. 



Mr. Geo. Greene stated with reference to his communica- 

 tion at Feldman meeting of March i8th, that he had over- 

 looked a record of Platypeza ornatipes Townsend, (not Aid- 

 rich) by Mr. Johnson, at North Mountain, Pa., thus making 

 his record from Lehigh Gap the second instead of first rec- 

 ord for Pennsylvania. 



FRANK HAIMBACH, Secretary. 



A meeting of the Harrisburg Natural History Association, 

 Entomological Division, was held on Thursday evening, May 

 1 4th, in the rooms of the Division of Economic Zoology. Har- 

 ris B. Schick presented a paper, entitled "The Apple and Forest 

 Tent Caterpillars," W. R. Walton read a paper called "Notes 



