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SOCIETY NEWS. 



Brooklyn Entomological Society.— Meeting March 4th. Present 

 Prof. John B. Smith in the chair and seventy-five persons. Minutes of the last 

 meeting, the Treasurer's report for February, and the report of the Librarian 

 were read and approved. The appropriation of |r5o for the support of the 

 Entomologica Americana for 1890, by the council of the Institute under 

 certain conditions, was referred to the Executive Committee for report. 

 Messrs. J. B. Smith and C. H. Roberts were appointed a committee to confer 

 with committees from the Newark and Philadelphia Entomological Societies 

 as to date of a joint field meeting of the members of the several societies 

 during the coming season. Messrs. Rodrigues Ottolengui, of 486 Vanderbilt 

 Avenue, Brooklyn, and Martin H. Wilckens. of 261 Henry Street, Brooklyn, 

 members of the Institute, were elected to membership in the Society. The 

 exchange of the Entomologica Americana with the " Entomological News^' 

 was approved. 



Mr. Zabriskie exhibited male and female of the Diomorus Zabriskii 

 Cress., a hymenopterous parasite on the bee, Ceratina diipla Say, and the 

 wasp Crabro stirpicola Pack., together with enlarged diagrams showing the 

 structure of the external organs. This parasite is the only recorded species 

 of its genus in this country, and had been only seen by him on two occasions 

 when reared from nests of the above hosts in stems of cultivated Black Rasp- 

 berry. 



Mr. Hulst spoke at length upon "the Phycitidae of North America," 

 illustrating his remarks by charts and black-board sketches of structure. 

 He first gave a history of the family from the time of Linnaeus to the present. 

 He then explained what a Phycitid was, showing how the family was sepa- 

 rated structurally from the rest of the Lepidoptera. 



A description was then given of the eggs and of the larvae and their 

 habits, some .of which infest berries, others flour, meal, canned and dried 

 fruits ; some are twig borers, other live in silken cocoons among leaves. One 

 has the remarkable habit of living upon bark lice, and was the first known 

 instance of a North American caterpillar having that habit. 



After this the imago was taken up, and the structure of all the organs was 

 explained in detail. Mr. Hulst took the ground that the bitufted maxillary 

 palpi which some of the males have, allied them very closely to the Epipas- 

 chiidae. He also showed that the structure of the (^ genitalia separated them 

 into two distinct groups. 



Mr. Hulst afterwards exhibited his collection of North American Phyci- 

 tidae, in which are found the original types of nearly half the known species, 

 and typical specimens of a large proportion of the rest. 



The meeting adjourned after an explanation of a number of stereopticon 

 views by Prof. Smith. 



A. C. Weeks, 



Recording Secretary. 



