Dec, '03] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 339 



to date and their life-histories discovered. The great amount 

 of work recently done had made his former work on mosqui- 

 toes obsolete. In a work published a few years ago on Insect 

 Parasitism, he mentioned the fact that Anthremis varius i^d on 

 the debris of the cocoons of the Tussock moth. This year the 

 moth was said to be scarce, on account of the same species 

 feeding on the living ^g^ masses. 



Dr. Castle spoke of the difficulty of mounting smooth-bellied 

 beetles on card mounts and he had devised a new method, 

 which consists of making an incision into the side of the 

 insect, into which the end of the cardboard point is inserted. 



Mr. Laurent exhibited a specimen of Phisia verruca collected 

 by Dr. Castle in Florida. Mr. Daecke exhibited beetles taken 

 at Manumuskin, N. J.: Pachncsiis distans , new to the State, and 

 Bellamira scalaris, which has a northern range. Specimens of 

 Micrathyria berenice showing variation were exhibited. In 

 rearing mosquito larvse in a jar, he had noticed many missing, 

 and found they were being devoured by water Hydra. The 

 living larvae of Corethra were shown. 



Dr. Calvert said the species of dragon-fly, M. berenice, was 

 the one reared from salt water larvae by Mr. Viereck. The 

 water was about one-half as salty as that of the ocean. 



Dr. Howard said that Dr. H. T. Fernald had called atten- 

 tion to the fact that Hydra eat mosquito larvae. Dr. Calvert 

 spoke of the recent work by Dr. Sharp on the Coleoptera of 

 Hawaii, and mentioned wingless beetles, the absence of wings 

 being an advantage to them. Collecting on mountains was 

 discussed, especially in the snow. Dr. Howard gave an ac- 

 count of an ascent made by Prof. Poulton in the mountains of 

 British America, in search of insects. 



Henry Skinner, Secretary. 



A meeting of the Entomological Section of the Chicago 

 Academy of Sciences (Chicago Entomological Society) was 

 held in the John Crerar Library, October 15, 1903. Eight 

 members present. President Longley occupied the chair. 



