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ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION, 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol. vn. MAY, 1896. No. 5. 



CONTENTS: 



Fox — The Feldman Collecting Social.. 129 

 Calvert — Notes on European Entomo- 

 logical collections 131 



Holland — A new African Saturniid 133 



Editorial 136 



Economic Entomology 137 



Notes and News 140 



Entomological Literature 141 



Doings of Societies 146 



Entomological Section 148 



Johnson — Preliminary notes on five new 



species of scale insects 150 



Wheeler — Two Dolichopodid genera 



new to America 152 



Baker — Notes on Oxybelus 156 



THE FELDMAN COLLECTING SOCIAL 



(See Plate V.) 



An evidence of advancing" interest in the study of insects is 

 indicated in the fact that Philadelphia, which may well be called 

 the home of American Entomology, sustains two entomological 

 societies, namely, the American Entomological Society and the 

 Feldman Collecting Social. The former society now works in 

 conjunction with the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadel- 

 phia, having rooms in the building of the Academy, and was 

 organized in 1859. It is not the writer's intention, however, to 

 deal with this society, other than by way of comparison, in order 

 to show that the more recent organization is not intended to work 

 inharmoniously with the older, but was formed to stimulate a 

 social acquaintanceship among the collectors of Philadelphia 

 without eliminating the advancement of their study. Sociality 

 and the advancement of natural science were to be promoted 

 hand in hand, neither to be sacrificed to the other. 



While the members of the Feldman Collecting Social recog- 

 nize fully the worth of the American Entomological Society, and 

 are proud of its prestige in the entomological world, many of 

 them being members of it, yet it long ago became apparent to 



