Mar. '07] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. Ill 



The death, on December 28, 1906, of our fellow member, 

 Mr. Frank Hoyer, was announced. 



The President read his annual address. 



The following officers were elected to serve for the year 

 1907 : E. Daecke, President ; H. S. Harbeck, Vice-President ; 

 Frank Haimbach, Secretary ; H. W. Wenzel, Treasurer. 



FRANK HAIMBACH. 



The monthly meeting- of the Newark Entomological Society 

 was held January I2th, 1907, in Turn Hall, 184 William 

 Street. Newark, President Dickerson in the chair and thirteen 

 members present. Mr. Frederick Lemmer, of Irvington, was 

 elected to membership, and the topic of willow insects was 

 then discussed. 



Prof. Wormsbacher enumerated twenty-eight species of 

 Lepidoptera which he had bred on willow and poplar, among 

 the more rare forms being Sphinx luscitiosa, Ecpantheria 

 deflorata, Raphia fratcr and Tolype rcllcda, this latter, per- 

 haps, recorded from willow for the first time. Mr. Dickerson 

 gave an account of the insects of economic importance, which 

 occur on the willow, and stated that Cryptorhynchus lapathi 

 was not destructive to willow and poplar nursery stock in New 

 Jersey. Mr. Bischoff remarked that one hundred or more 

 larvne of C. lapathi may be found tunneling in a few feet of 

 willow branch, and that they were becoming more abundant 

 of recent years at Irvington. Mr. Grossbeck spoke of five 

 species of Sesiids which bore into willow, and stated that he 

 had found old borings in the canes of that plant at Paterson, 

 which were probably those of Sesia bolteri. Both Mr. Brehme 

 and Mr. Angleman said they had bred Sanninoidca c.vitiosa 

 from willow, which appears to be a new plant for this species. 

 Liniciiitis ursnla was also reported by three different persons 

 as being found on willow and poplar. 



Prof. Wormsbacher reported the following rare species of 

 Lepidoptera which he had taken the past summer: Haploa 

 triangnlaris, Hasbrook Heights ; Acronycta hastulifcra, Pali- 

 sade Park, larva? abundant on alder; Fcltia rolnbilis. Fort Lee, 

 May 30; Bcllura gortynidcs, New Durham, August 19; Plnsia 



