9O ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [April, 



LEPIDOPTERA. 



Verson 2, Lower u, Slingerland 20, 35, Meves 23, Druce 32*, d'Her- 

 culais 3, Distant 33, Smith 35, Dyar 35, 36, Murtfeldt 35*, Cockerell 36*, 

 Howard 37, Coquillett 37, Dognin 42, Frings 44, Mayer 45, Bath 45, Kane 

 45, Holmgren 47. 



HYMENOPTERA. 



Kebler 6, Chretien 9, von Ihering 15, Friese 28, 43, Borries 31, Cameron 

 32*, Ashmead 35*, Patton 35, Robertson 35, Cockerell 35* (two), Howard 

 37*, Huard 40, Schmiedeknecht 43, Pungur 43, Tuck 46, Adlerz 47, Die- 

 nelt 51, Konow 53, Kieffer 54. 



Doings of Societies. 



PHILADELPHIA, March 9, 1897. 



A stated meeting' of the Feldman Collecting Social was held 

 on March 9, 1897, at the residence of Mr. H. W. Wenzel, 1509 

 S. 1 3th Street. Members present : Messrs. Boerner, E. Wenzel, 

 H. Wenzel, Seiss, A. Hoyer, Johnson and Kemp. Honorary 

 members : Drs. H. Skinner and J. B. Smith. Visitors : Messrs. 

 E. and S. Klages. Vice-President, Dr. Castle, in the chair. 



A letter from Dr. Horn acknowledging the Social's expres- 

 sion of regret in regard to his present illness was read. 



Mr. Edw. Klages exhibited specimens of wood bored by 

 Scolytns muticus. The species only attacks dead wood as far as 

 the speaker was aware ; and this seems to be indicated by the 

 fact that specimens of the beetle collected had bred twice in the 

 same wood. Several species of Longicornia had also emerged 

 from the same wood. Further discussed by Messrs. Smith, H. 

 Wenzel and E. Klages, the latter stating that he had seen a 

 parasitic wasp attacking the mature Scolytus and in one in- 

 stance the ovipositor of the wasp had become fastened in the 

 beetle. 



Prof. Smith remarked on the recent investigations of Mr. Hub- 

 bard in the Southwest. He enumerated some of the rarities ob- 

 tained by that gentleman, which included specimens of the almost 

 unique Dinopate ivrightii. Mr. Hubbard had found this species 

 to oviposit in the live palm tree and not in dead wood as had 

 been supposed. 



Mr. H. Wenzel pointed out some of the characteristics of Dino- 

 pate wrightii and exhibited a box of some allied Bostrychidae. 



