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mainly in partially shaded spots along the edge of the bushes. 25^^ and 

 T 9 taken. 



June 13, took 65 males and about 15 females ; males round edge of 

 swamp as before ; females and more males in drier and shadier places 

 among the bushes, where there was little or no standing water and some 

 few yards from east edge of swamp. 



June 22, took some 15 females in same place as before ; the species 

 was common, but did not seem as numerous as on 13th. — C. S. Brimley. 



Doings of Societies. 



The November meeting of the Newark [N. J.] Entomological 

 Society was held November 8th, with President Engelman in 

 the chair and fourteen members present. The minutes of the 

 previous meeting, were read and adopted. 



The election of officers resulted as follows : 



Mr. George J. Keller, President-; Mr. George Stortz, Vice- 

 President ; Mr. O. Buchholz, Secretary ; Mr. S. Seib, Treas- 

 urer ; Mr. William Broadwell, Librarian ; Mr. E. A. BischoflF, 

 Curator, Coleoptera ; Mr. H. H. Brehme, Curator, Eepidop- 

 tera. 



Mr. Grossbeck reported the capture of three specimens of 

 Sciapteron tridyida^ Mr. H. Rummell the capture of an almost 

 black specimen of Melitaea phaeton at Plainfield, May 31st. 

 Mr. Buchholz reported the capture of the following speci- 

 mens of Lepidoptera : Sarrothripa Ii?it7ieria?ia, 7-30 ; Ardia 

 vittata, 8-24 ; Heteroge^iea textida, 7-23; Dry opteris rosea ^ 9-10; 

 Acronyda vi?mula, 5-17 ; Acr. siiperans, 4-10 ; Hade^iaremissa, 

 6-16; Hydroeda harrisii, middle of September; Hyd. spedo- 

 sissima, lo-i ; Hyd. ^narginideyis , 9-15 ; Hyd. limpida, 10-5 ; 

 Trileuca redifasda, 7-16 — all in Elizabeth. 



Otto Buchholz, Secretary. 



At the meeting of the Feldman Collecting Social, held 

 October 21st, at the residence of Mr. H. W. Wenzel, 1523 

 S. Thirteenth St., Philadelphia, fifteen persons were present. 



Dr. Castle, on behalf of Mr. J. H.1B. Bland, recorded the 

 capture of Tachygonus sphnpes in abundance at English Creek, 

 N.J. 



