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"pistol-case-bearer," To bring out the full meaning, as noted above, 

 the word "shaped" should be compounded with the first word of the 

 names. I now think the first hyphen, as used in the bulletins mentioned, 

 is unnecessary. 



I hope Prof. Doran will insist on the form, "codling-moth" and pro- 

 test against the horticultural use of the form, "codlin moth." — M. V. 



Slingerland. 



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Doings of Societies. 



At the November meeting of the Feldman Collecting Social 

 held at the residence of Mr. H. W. Wenzel, 1523 South Thir- 

 teenth Street, Philadelphia, eleven persons were present. 



Mr. H. W. Wenzel enumerated some of the more important 

 captures of his recent trip into the mountains of North Caro- 

 lina. 



Mr. Beutenmuller stated that the faunas of the Black and 

 Blue Ridges of North Carolina were quite distinct, probably 

 owing to a difference in the timber. He showed a wood-boring 

 roach, and a probable new species of Anthophilax , both from 

 North Carolina. 



Mr. H. W. Wenzel referred to the similarity of the insect 

 faunas of North Mountain, Pa., and the mountains of North 

 Carolina. 



Prof. J. B. Smith stated that he had bred twenty species of 

 mosquitoes during the past season in New Jersey. But one New 

 Jersey species, Conchy Hastes musicus, is not known in the larval 

 stage, but he suspected that a larva now in his possession may 

 represent it. He spoke of a new species, Cidex melanurus, 

 from New Jerse}^ From sods, with the eggs of the salt-marsh 

 species, from Anglesea, N. J., which he had kept dry and then 

 placed in water, Culex tcsniorhynchus only had. been raised ; 

 but from sods from the same locality which he had kept wet, 

 both tcsniorhynchus and sollicitajis emerged. C. solicitans is the 

 common, and apparently the only, species found where the sods 

 were gathered, and the speaker suggested the possibility of 

 tcB7iiorhynchus and sollicitans being forms of one species. He 

 expected to investigate the matter more thoroughly next year. 



In reply to Mr. Wenzel, Prof. Smith stated that he had bred 

 five species from salt water, including one which, while dis- 



