i6 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Jan., '92 



a vote of thanks be given to the secretary for the able manner 

 in which he entertained the members of the social at the last 

 meeting. Passed. — Wm. R. Reinick, Secretary. 



A meeting of the Entomological Section of the Academy of 

 Natural Sciences of Philadelphia was held November 21st, 

 Mr. Philip Laurent, Director, in the chair. Fifteen members 

 and associates were present. 



Mr. Herman Horing presented a collection of blown larvae, 

 Mrs. Chas. Schafifer a small collection of insects from Glacier, 

 B. C, and Mr. Lancaster Thomas a number of insects from 

 Tennessee and North Carolina. 



Dr. Philip P. Calvert exhibited the dragonflies collected by 

 Dr. Skinner in Sapello Canon, New Mexico. The species are 

 mostly of wide distribution. Lestes disjujichcs extends from 

 the Atlantic to the Pacific. Enallag7na calverti is also rather 

 widely distributed. Ischnura verticailis is a common eastern 

 species. Aischna clepsydra is a circumpolar species and New 

 Mexico is the southernmost place from from which it has been 

 recorded. ALschna multicolor is a common western species. 

 There was a species of Argia which is probably new. Mr. 

 Seiss said he had been presented with a specimen of Anasa 

 armigera which had an abnormal, peculiarly spiked antennae, 

 but in other respects the specimen was normal. 



Mr. Viereck showed specimens exhibiting remarkable resem- 

 blance between some Braconids and certain Hemiptera from 

 British Guiana. 



Mr. Huntington remarked that the specimen of Sphyrace- 

 phala brevicornis exhibited at the la.st meeting came from 

 Ithaca, New York, a locality with no skunk cabbage near by. 

 It u.sually occurs about this plant. 



Mr. Laurent exhibited alcoholic specimens of the early stages 

 of Tenodera smensis and also some spread .specimens of the adults. 



Dr. Calvert .spoke of the classification of the smaller dragon- 

 flies. He thought that they .should be arranged in families 

 according to their evolutionary development. Caloptcryx rep- 

 resents the oldest ty])e and the Agrions probably come next. 

 The venation was considered the best guide for this purpo.se. 



