292 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [November, 



Xhie Hntornologica.1 Section 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



PROCEEDINGS OF MEETINGS. 



September 27, 1894. 

 A regular stated meeting of the Entomological Sectionpf the Academy 

 of Natural Sciences was held in the Hall, S. W. cor. Nineteenth and Race 

 Streets, this evening, Dr. G. H. Horn, Director, presiding. Members 

 present: Calvert, G. B. Cresson, Laurent, Johnson and Skinner. Asso- 

 ciates: Boerner and Reinick. Mr. Laurent exhibited two species of 

 Pamphila taken at Mt. Airy, Pa. The species were ocala and phylceus; 

 the speaker said they were very rare, although they had previously been 

 taken about Philadelphia. Mr. Laurent also stated that Crioceris 12-punc- 

 iatus Linn., which is one of this country's acquisitions to its Coleopterous 

 fauna, was introduced from the other side of the Atlantic. It was discov- 

 ered in our country by Prof. Otto Lugger, near Baltimore, Md., some 

 ten years ago. Prof. J. B. Smith found it in Salem County, N. J., in May, 

 1S92. In the next two years it distributed itself over the greater portion 

 of the southern half of New Jersey and has now gained a foothold in 

 Pennsylvania, as specimens were captured by the speaker during August 

 of the present year at Holmesburg Junction, Philadelphia. Field workers 

 should be on the lookout for this insect, as it will be interesting to note 

 the rapidity with which it spreads over the land; so far its progress has 

 been slow. The insect is found in company with the well-known aspara- 

 gus beetle, Crioceris asparagi Linn. Dr. Horn exhibited the plates illus- 

 trating his paper on the Coleoptera of the peninsula of California, which 

 is to appear in the Transactions of the California Academy. Mr. Calvert 

 stated that on the island opposite Wood's Holl, Mass., he had found an 

 Agrionide heretofore only foimd in Florida. Mr. Johnson exhibited speci- 

 mens of Holcocephala calva, showing abnormalities in venation. The 

 branches of the second longitudinal vein are connected near their junction 

 by a transverse vein thus forming a small discal cell; in one specimen this 

 mutation is on the right side and on the left in the other. He also men- 

 tioned the capture of Orthostethus infuscatus at Avalon, N. J., on July 

 22d. Mr. Wm. J. Fox was unanimously elected a member of the Section. 



Dr. Henry Skinner, Recorder. 



Philadelphia, Oct. 9, 1894. — A stated meeting of the Feldman Collecting 

 Social was heldat the residence of Mr. H. W. Wenzel, No. 1509 S. 13th 

 Street. Members present: Laurent, Boerner, Seeber, Dr. Castle, Trescher, 

 Fox, E. Wenzel, Bland, Hoyer, H. W. Wenzel, Haimbach and Schmitz. 

 Honorary members: Dr. G. H. Horn and Dr. John B. Smith. Meeting 

 called to order at 9 p. M. Mr. Philip Laurent, president, in the chair. 

 A written communication from Mr. Geo. Stortz was read. Dr. Horn made 

 some remarks, illustrated by blackboard sketches, on the proper method 

 of determining the genus Scymnus, of which the following is a brief ac- 



