Dec., '08] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 495 



us Carabus he finds poorly represented here; he also referred 

 to a species of Rhipiphorus, probably dimidiatus, which he 

 found in numbers at National Park, X. J. on Monarda pnnc- 

 tata. 



Mr. Harbeck said that he found Rhipiphorus species quite 

 common at Trenton, N. J. this year. 



Mr. H. W. Wenzel said that Cychrns t'idnns had been very 

 rare for many years, until within last two or three years, since 

 which time a few specimens have been taken in the vicinity of 

 Philadelphia. The same speaker reported the capture of a 

 pair of Chlaenius prasinns at Philadelphia on July I4th and 

 23d. This species was not known to the speaker from this 

 locality, being a mountainous species. 



Prof. Calvert exhibited a specimen of Erebus odoraius, 

 which was found alive, resting on wall in room of Biological 

 Hall, University of Pennsylvania, on August 27, 1908. On 

 the same day a specimen of the same species flew into the win- 

 dow at the Academy of Natural Sciences. On this and the 

 preceding day a storm said to have come from the Gulf of 

 Mexico occurred. 



Mr. Geo. M. Greene exhibited a block made of peat, used 

 as a setting board for Coleoptera. 



Dr. Skinner called attention to the fact that small species 

 of insects from the tropics have been almost entirely neglected, 

 and that these should be more studied. 



Prof. Smith suggested that window screens should be painted 

 with kerosene to prevent mosquitoes from coming in through 

 the same, which, however, proves effective for a while only. 



Mr. Viereck after having made further investigations with 

 Culicid larvae in fresh water from the "Philadelphia Neck," 

 found the most of the specimens to be solicitans, and some 

 pipiens. 



Mr. Charles Greene exhibited specimens of the following 

 Diptera : Ccratiir^its cntcialiis Say, taken at Germantown, Phil- 

 adelphia, July 2, 1908 : Hctcropogon gibbus Loew., Glenside, 

 Pa., Sept. i, 1908; Myiolepta varipes Loew., Roxborough. Phil- 

 adelphia, June 7, 1908, by George M. Greene ; TricJiopoda 

 cilipes Wied., Newtown Square, Pa., August 23, 1908, by 



