264 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [June, '07 



In the absence of the president, R. W. Doane, the vice-presi- 

 dent, Earl Morris, the county entomologist, presided. Twenty- 

 three members were present and three visitors. 



J. Chester Bradley, instructor in entomology at the Universi- 

 ty of California, was the speaker for the evening. The general 

 subject was the wing venation of the parasitic hymenoptera. 



JULIA D. E. WRIGHT, Secretary. 



The monthly meeting of the Newark Entomological Society 

 was held in Turn Hall, Newark, on February 10, 1907, the 

 President in the chair, and twenty members present. Mr. John 

 Kuenzler, of Paterson, a visitor. Air. Emile Gerstenborn, of 

 New York, was proposed for membership and unanimously 

 elected. Mr. Brehme presented "Notes on certain Rhopalocera 

 species observed during the season of 1906." He spoke of the 

 scarcity of Chrysophanns hypophlacus, Lycaena pseudargiolus 

 and its varieties, and Thecla damon; this latter a usually com- 

 mon insect at Paterson. Thecla augustus and edivardsii, he 

 found very common locally: the former had always been rare 

 with him and the latter he had never taken before. In 1906 he 

 took over two hundred specimens, July 4, at Newark. He re- 

 ported the capture of T. m-albnm on the Orange Mountains, 

 April 28th. Ccratomia catalpae, Mr. Brehme stated, had made 

 its way north as far as Irvington and Eagle Rock. Mr. Dicker- 

 son remarked that he had found it at Morristown and Hacketts- 

 town during the past season. Mr. Brehme also presented a 

 paper on "How to prepare Lepidoptera for the Cabinet in Short 

 Order." 



Mr. Wormsbacher approved of the method as explained by 

 Mr. Brehme, having himself practised it for some time ; ; but 

 he warned against the use of pine boards, relating an instance 

 where all his specimens were glued fast to the boards owing 

 to the exudation of the resin. Mr. Wasmuth exhibited a box 

 of Lepidoptera, among which were Catocala electilis, C. insola- 

 bilis with a large white spot on the primaries, C. unij-nga with 

 yellow underwings, Smerintkus saliceti from Arizona and a rare 

 indetermined species of Glovcria from Texas. 



