iSgS-] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 3OI 



MYRIAPODA. 



Kenyon 12. 



ARACHNIDA. 

 Thorell 5, Pocock 8 (two), Peckhatn 17. 



ORTHOPTERA. 



Morse 14*. 



HEMIPTERA. 

 Bergroth 2, Mordwilko 11, Coding 18*. 



COLEOPTERA. 



Verhoeff 4, Horn 15* Townsend 18, Patton 18, Wickham 18, Jacoby 19, 

 Porter 20. 



LEPIDOPTERA. 



Grote 6, 9*, Tutt 13, Dyar 18, Moffat 18 (two), Evans 18, Tutt 19, Latter 

 19. Barker 19, Hartig 22, Garbowski 21, Butler 24, Edwards 25. 



HYMENOPTERA. 



Provancher i*, Stadelmann 7, Bordas 10, Fox 16*, Patton 18, Macgil- 

 livray 18* Davis 18, Marshall 19, Gribodo 20, Emery 20. 



Doings of Societies. 



Philadelphia, Oct. 8, 1895. 



A stated meeting of the Feldman Collecting Social was held at the 

 residence of Mr. H. W. Wenzel, 1509 S. 13th St. Members present : 

 Messrs. Bland, Hoyer, E. Wenzel, Trescher, H. \V. Wenzel, Dr. Castle, 

 Laurent, Fox, Schmitz, Haimbach and Boerner. Honorary members: 

 Drs. Henry Skinner, George H. Horn and Profl John B. Smith. 



Meeting called to order at 8.40 p. m.. President Bland presiding. Prof. 

 Smith stated that the specimens of borers which he had received from 

 Mr. H. W. Wenzel were not the common Peach borer, but the Plum 

 borer, that the finding of it on the Peach interested him very much, and 

 that he considered it well worthy of further investigation, as this species 

 is not recorded as being injurious to the Peach. Dr. Skinner spoke on 

 the life-habits of Argynnis dtana, referring to a statement made of the 

 males appearing a month or more in advance of the females, and making 

 the query why this should be so; the question was generally discussed 

 without any one throwing any light on the subject. Mr. Laurent exhibited 

 a case of Micro-Lepidoptera collected during the Summer, mostly at 

 Mount Airy, Philadelphia. Prof. Smith stated that he had noted some 

 interesting facts in connection with the vitality of Scolytus quadrispinosus 

 and S. rugulosus. He had brought with him a hickory log from Alle- 



