96 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Feb., 'lO 



ttide on the blossoms of the New England aster. The color 

 and ornamentation of the moths harmonizes with that of the 

 flowers, and it is only with difficulty that they can be detected. 



Mr. Brehme exhibited types of his new Anisota which he is 

 calling neome.vicana. 



Mr. Grossbeck showed some Lepidoptera taken during the 

 summer. Among them were Polychrisia formosa Grt, Lake 

 Hopatcong, July 4, Cirrhophanus triangnlifera Grt., New 

 Brunswick, Aug. 2, A crony eta hast ulif era Sm. & Abb., Pater- 

 son, July 21, Or eta irrorata Pack., New Brunswick, June 4, 

 Racselia minuscula Zell., Plainfield. June 29, Memythrus asili- 

 pennis Bois., Maurer, May 16 and Thecla polios C. & W., Mill- 

 town, April 8. 



JOHN A. GROSSBECK, Secretary. 



The October meeting of the Newark Entomological Society 

 was held in Turn Hall. Newark, N. J., on the loth of the 

 month with twenty-five members and the following visitors 

 present : Dr. Henry Skinner, Frank Haimbach and Henry and 

 Harry Wenzel, of Philadelphia; Chas. J. Martin and Chas. E. 

 Olsen, of New York ; F. Wintersteiner, of Brooklyn ; Wm. T. 

 Davis, of Staten Island ; Geo. Domidion, of Jersey City, and 

 Ignaz Matausch, of Newark, N. J. 



Mr. Bischoff gave an extended talk on collecting Coleoptera 

 locally and dwelt upon the importance of ascertaining the life- 

 histories of the various species. No species is really rare when 

 these are known, Mr. Bischoff asserts, and he cited a number 

 of instances where innumerable examples of species ordinarily 

 regarded as rare were secured after the breeding habits had 

 been discovered. Leptotrachelus dorsalis, for example, he 

 found literally by the hundred between the sheaths of cattail 

 on which plant the species breeds. Mordella octopunctata, 

 also, while not especially rare, is never taken in any numbers ; 

 yet he found the larvae and pupae in great abundance in an 

 old, fallen tree at Maurer, N. J. 



Mr. Bischoff further recorded the capture of Staphylinus 

 violaceus at Rah way, April 25 and at Maurer, April 16. 



