216 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [May, ' OJ 



At the meeting of the Feldman Collecting Social held March 

 20, 1907, at the residence of Mr. H. W. Wenzel, No. 1523 S. 

 Thirteenth Street, Philadelphia, there were seven members 

 present, and Mr. Heiner visitor. 



Mr. Harbeck exhibited seven species of Diptera new to New 

 Jersey list as follows : Hermctia illnccns Linn., taken at Tren- 

 ton, VII, 7; Tcmnostoma trifasciata Robertson, Anglesea, VI, 

 ii ; Rivellia boscii Desv., Trenton, V, 21; Euthera tentatrix 

 Loew., Clementon, V, 30; Sturmia nigrita Town., Riverton, 

 V, 19; Protocalliphora splendida Macq., Ashland, VII, 16, and 

 Discoccrina parva Loew., Ashland, V, 13. 



Mr. Haimbach gave an account of the vitality and power of 

 resistance of the sheep tick, Melophagus ovinus, which account 

 will appear in another part of this number. 



Mr. Haimbach exhibited the following fifteen species of 

 recently described Micro-lepidoptera : Crambus placidcllus 

 Haimb., Cnunbns daeckellus Haimb., Thaumatopsis fcrnaldella 

 Kearf., Epiiwtia haimbachiana Kearf., Hemimena bittana 

 Busck, Ancylis diiiiinittana Kearf., PJialonia rana Busck, Phalo- 

 nia atomosana Busck, Hysterosia merrickana Kearf., Carposina 

 fcnialdana Busck, Gelechia nigrimaculella Busck, Momp/ui 

 engclella Busck, Mompha stellella Busck, Epermenia imperial- 

 ella Busck, and Amydria margoriclla Dietz. 



Mr. Daecke exhibited a specimen of Pachnobia monochromes- 

 tea Morr., taken at Brown's Mills Junction, V, 20, 04, and a 

 specimen of Spogostylum ccphus Fab., taken by Mr. Haimbach 

 at Roxborough, Philadelphia, VII, 8, 06. The type of this 

 species is from South America, and is listed from Ga. Macq., 

 Va., O. S. Cat., and St. Augustine, Fla., Johnson. 



FRANK HAIMBACH, Secretary. 



ERRATA. 



Mr. H. W. Wenzel wishes to note the following correction in the min- 

 utes of December 19, 1906, ENT. NEWS, XVIII, p. 68, in his reference to 

 the color variation in the genus Phanaeus, it should read Phanaens ig niits, 

 instead of in the genus Phanaeus. 



Pages numbered 164 and 165 in the NEWS for April, 1907, should have 

 been 163 and 164 respectively. After line 6, page 140, insert " type of 

 Walker's carbonarius in the British Museum collec-" 



