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the cork of a wine bottle. The sender thought it was Xylcbonts 

 perforans, but it turned out to belong to the Cryptophagidae. 

 Same gentleman also said he had been handed some gun- wads 

 which had been perforated by Sitodrepa panicea. On June i2th, 

 at Buena Vista, N. J., he had found a third brood of Eucnemiii 

 Dromezolus striatus. A few specimens were taken singly and in 

 a sweet-potato hot-bed, in the charred wood, over eighty speci- 

 mens were found. In the whole series there were extremes of 

 size. Mr. Wenzel said Sch\varx had taken Pogonus of a uniform 

 size at Brownsville, Texas, but he himself had taken them of 

 various size on the Atlantic sea-coast. 



PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 9, 1897. A stated meeting of the Feld- 

 man Collecting Social was held at the residence of Mr. H. W. 

 Wenzel, 1509 S. i3th Street. Meeting called to order at 8.50 

 p. M. Vice- President Castle presiding. Minutes of the previous 

 meeting were read and approved. 



A written communication was read from Dr. H. G. Griffith 

 from Phoenix, Ariz. 



Prof. Smith spoke of Spheerostelle coccophila, the fungus dis- 

 ease which had been found attacking the San Jose scale in 

 Florida, and detailed his efforts to introduce it into New Jersey. 

 He was successful in two cases, once with cultures obtained from 

 Prof. S. A. Forbes, of Illinois, and one with twigs bearing dis- 

 eased scales, received from Prof. Rolfs, of Florida. In the first 

 case disease occurred on one tree only; in the other at least a 

 dozen trees are fully inoculated and the orange fruiting processes 

 are visible all over the trees. The cultures were not applied at 

 the right time, as experience has since shown; the middle of a 

 drv day being selected instead of the afternoon of a wet one. 

 At all events there is enough to test the effect of the Winter on 

 the disease and to decide whether it is likely to be of any use 

 with us. Bromide enlargements showing diseased scales were 

 exhibited. 



Prof. Smith further spoke of the soft scale of the tulip tree, 

 and stated that these were largely preyed upon by the Phycid, 

 L&tilia coccidivora. He exhibited a bromide enlargement show- 

 ing a mass of scales with the silken tubes extending from one to 



the other. 



Mr. Seiss reported the taking of several specimens of the wing- 



