Vol. XXV] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 14! 



Doings of Societies. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION, ACADEMY OF NAT- 

 URAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 



Meeting of November 2Oth, 1913, Mr. Philip Laurent, 

 Director, presided. Ten persons were present. 



Dr. Calvert exhibited a specimen of Erythrodipla.v berenice 

 Drury (Odon,), a salt marsh species from Philadelphia, 

 August ist, 1909, by G. M. Greene. This is the third Philadel- 

 phia record. 



Dr. Skinner exhibited a picture of the store that was form- 

 erly situated at the northwest corner of Second and Market 

 Streets, Philadelphia, occupied as a drug store by Speakman 

 & Say, the first meeting place of the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences of Philadelphia, in 1812. The Say mentioned was 

 the father of Thomas Say, called the father of American 

 Entomology. 



Mr. Laurent said he had collected specimens of Colias 

 philodice as late as November 7th, showing the mildness of 

 the present fall. 



Mr. J. R. Malloch was elected an Associate of the Sec- 

 tion. 



Meeting of December 8th, 1913, Mr. H. W. Wenzel, Vice- 

 Director, presided. Nine persons were present. 



Dr. Calvert exhibited two lantern slides, showing a beetle, 

 Pachyteles seriatoporus Chaudoir, taken in a bromeliad, at 

 Juan Vinas, Costa Rica. He called attention to certain struc- 

 tures of the legs, viz. : a spine on the first femur and a 

 groove armed with a row of stiff hairs on the first tibia as 

 quite similar to the apparatus known as the antenna-cleaner 

 of the bees and ants ; he supposed that these parts of the 

 beetle may be used for the same purpose. Mr. Wenzel said 

 he had not observed any beetles using such an apparatus for 

 cleaning the antennae. Mr. Liebeck thought the apparatus 

 was used for holding objects of prey. 



Mr. Hornig reported finding salt marsh mosquitoes (Aedes 

 sollicitans) at Cobb's Creek and Clearview, 'Plennsylvania. 



