Jan., 'lO] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 49 



Dr. R. C. L. Perkins, Dr. David Sharp and the Rev. Thomas 

 Blackburn were elected honorary members. 



The Popular Names Committee presented their report on 

 the common names of insects. 



Mr. Ehrhorn described and exhibited a new method of 

 mounting- Coccidae, a beautiful bunch of strung "earth pearls," 

 Mcfv'arodes trimeni Giard ( Coccid), also a box containing 

 typical specimens of each family oi the beetles of the United 

 States north of Mexico. 



Mr. Kotinsky read a very interesting paper on the Sugar- 

 cane Mealy Bug ; he also read a note from Brother M. Newell 

 reporting 'the appearance of the Curculionid Syagrius fuh'l- 

 tarsits Pasc. in a fernery in Hilo. The insect has been known 

 in Honolulu for sometime, but this is the first record from 

 Hilo. 



Messrs. Fullaway and Kotinsky presented notes and de- 

 scriptions of Rhipcrziclla rhizophilla n. sp. (Coccid). 



Mr. Swezey read a note on Rhiparobia madeira (Orth.) ; 

 and exhibited a collection of insects made on a recent trip in 

 the Waianae Mountains. 



DANIEL B. KUHNS, Secretary. 



At a regular meeting of the Feldman Collecting Social held 

 October 20, 1909, at 1523 South Thirteenth Street, Philadel- 

 phia, eleven members were present, Mr. Grossbeck, of New 

 Brunswick, N. J., visitor. President Harbeck in the chair. 



Mr. Grossbeck read a paper on Ciilc.r pcrtnrbans, Walk., by 

 Prof. Smith. 



Mr. Daecke said since last meeting, when he mentioned hav- 

 ing bred Pyransta laticlaria G. and R. from Horsemint, (Mon- 

 arda punctata L), he has bred P. signitalis Walk, from same 

 species of plant. Same speaker exhibited Mclanoplus pnnctii- 

 latns Scud., a rare species of Orthoptera, a 9 taken while ovi- 

 positing in the trunk of a pine tree about four feet above the 

 ground ; the abdomen was so far in the wood that the tree 

 touched the base of the hind legs. Said on June 27 while at 

 Englenook he sat down to rest in a place where "skippers" 



