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LEPIDOPTERA. 



Edwards i, Kappel and Kirby 2, Tutt 3, von Linden 10, Mayer 14, 30, 

 Laboulbene 16, Froggatt 19, Howard 24, Snyder 27, Dyar 27, 30, 31 (two), 

 Fyles 27, French 27*, Fletcher 27, Grote 31 (two), Beutenmuller 31, Davis 

 31, Chittenden 32, Buckler and Porritt 33, Pickard-Catnbridge 37, Bath 

 41, Conquest 41, Jeffreys 41, Hedemann 47*, Griebel 47, Druce 48*. 



HYMENOPTERA. 



Kohl 4, Dalla Torre 5, Cockerell and Fox 6*, Cameron 9*, Janet 13, 

 Forel 18, Wasmann 18, Howard 24*, Dyar 31, Chittenden 32, Bignell 33, 

 Pickard-Cambridge 37, Saunders 40. 



Doings of Societies. 



PHILADELPHIA, April 13, 1897. 



A stated meeting of the Feldman Collecting Social was held 

 at the residence of Mr. Frank Haimbach, 1309 Allegheny Ave., 

 on the above date. Members present: Messrs. Fox, Haimbach, 

 F. Hoyer, Seiss, H. W. Wenzel, Johnson, Boerner, A. Hover, 

 Laurent, Castle and Schmitz. Honorary members: Dr. Henry 

 Skinner and John B. Smith. Meeting called to order at 9.10 

 P.M., ex-president Laurent presiding. Minutes of the previous 

 meeting read and approved . 



A communication was read from Dr. H. G. Griffith, president 

 of the Social, who is at present sojourning in the South, dated 

 Lake Mary, Fla., April i, 1897, in which he gives some of his 

 experiences in collecting. 



A card was read from Dr. Horn expressing his regrets that he 

 could not be present at the meeting, but that he was improving 

 rapidly and expected to be about again shortly. 



Prof. Smith exhibited males and females of Arctia vittata, A. 

 phalerata and A. nais. He pointed out the means for recog- 

 nizing these species. In nais the entire costa is narrowly 

 black. The two other species having it yellow almost to the 

 apex; vittata has the hind wings and abdomen yellow; phalerata 

 has the hind wings red, at least at the base, the abdomen being 

 also, in most cases, more red than yellow. The speaker stated 

 that these differences were pointed out by Mr. Dyar, and they 

 hold in the large series of specimens that have been examined. 

 Those who have bred the different forms claim that the larvae of 

 two species, at least, are different. 



