484 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Dec., 'lO 



Mr. C. T. Greene exhibited a pair of Sphecius speciosns 

 Dru. (Hym.) collected at Wenonah, N. J., IX-5-io. 



Mr. Harbeck reported the finding of a colony of Stelis 

 australis Cress (Hym.) at Wenonah, N. J., on VIII-28-io, 

 taking about twenty specimens. Three specimens were also 

 taken of a species of Dianthidium (Hym.) which he could not 

 identify. 



Mr. Laurent stated that Polyphylla variolosa Hentz (Col.) 

 was very common around the electric lights at Anglesea, N. J., 

 on the night of June 3Oth. Of thirty or more specimens col- 

 lected all proved to be males; said that he had been with Dr. 

 Skinner about twenty-six years ago when two were caught 

 at Asbury Park, N. J. Dr. Castle remarked that Dr. Stevens 

 had found this species plentiful at Plymouth, Mass. The fe- 

 males apparently never come out, but could be found by watch- 

 ing the males dig in the sand and then following them. Mr. 

 Wenzel said this was questionable, as in occidentalis the fe- 

 male is the commoner. He mentioned a case where many fe- 

 males of variolosa were found on and near a rail fence. 



Mr. Harbeck said in Trenton, while reople were away from 

 home from Saturday morning until Monday morning, the 

 Catalpa sphinx larvae had completely denuded a Catalpa tree 

 and that a bucket and a half of larvae had been collected from 

 the remaining trees. 



Mr. Haimbach exhibited five specimens of a moth collected 

 at Hyde Park, Mass. VII-io-io and stated that he had taken 

 fifty-one in two days. It belongs to the genus Periclymenobius 

 containing three species all described from the Pacific coast. 

 The species shown is P. frustellus Wals. (on determination of 

 Mr. Kearfott). Mentioned having seen the flight of the Brown- 

 Tail Moth while there and said that if one looked at the 

 electric lights it resembled a blizzard. 



Adjourned to the annex. 



GEORGE M. GREENE, 



Secretary. 



