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verse bands, separated from one another by unpigmented areas. . . . 

 These bands, either in their primitive or modified shape, constitute the 

 ground color. Upon this ground color a second darker series of ele- 

 ments, the markings proper, also usually transverse, are superimposed." 

 The two plates present the wings of the species studied arranged in 

 the form of a phylogenetic tree, the branches and twigs of which indi- 

 cate the order of evolution of these markings as interpreted by our 

 author. Students of other Lepidoptera will be interested in the sug- 

 gestion, based on these results, that "the uniform yellowish ground 

 color which suffuses the wing in the higher Lepidoptera, beginning at 

 the base and spreading distalward, is the outcome of a phylogenetically 

 older type of marking, originally banded, and later fused to a uniform 

 color, and that the markings are a second series superimposed upon 

 the first." 



Doings of Societies. 



FELDMAN COLLECTING SOCIAL. 



Meeting of December 17, 1913, at the home of H. W. Wen- 

 zel, 5614 Stewart Street, Philadelphia. Twelve members were 

 present. Vice-President Wenzel in the chair. 



Mr. Harbeck said he had caught Cicindela rugifrons Dej. 

 (Col.) at Manahawkin, New Jersey, September i, 1913, Sep- 

 tember 3, 1911, and September 5, 1909, both from the pine 

 district and near the meadows. Those from the latter are 

 much darker, one being almost violet ; he was wondering if 

 this would be constant. Some one remarked that on several 

 occasions he had found Cicindela very slow in flying, and 

 Mr. Harbeck said he had caught C. purpurea Oliv. by picking 

 it up with the hand. Mr. George M. Greene said the first speci- 

 men he had collected in northern New Jersey of var. limbalis 

 Kl., Howell's pond, April 27, 1901, he had caught in this man- 

 ner. 



Mr. J. W. Green exhibited a short winged Longicorn, Necy- 

 dalis mellitits Say from Pocono Lake, Pa., August I, 1910, 

 also a box containing mostly weevils which he collected in 

 Davis Mountains, Chisos Mountains and a few other Texan 

 localities in July. 



Mr. Kaeber exhibited specimens of Tillomorpha gcniiuata 

 Hald. (Col.) from Woodbury, New Jersey, May 13, 1906, and 



