$.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 79 



Doings of Societies. 



A special meeting of the American Entomological Society was 

 held Jan. 27, 1898, Dr. Calvert, vice-president, presiding. Mr. 

 Stanley T. Kemp presented a specimen of Euphanessa mediana 

 Slosson, new to the collection, from Anglesea, N. J. Dr. Cal- 

 vert read a biography of the late Dr. Horn, which will shortly 

 be published in the Transactions (American Entomological 

 Society). Same speaker exhibited some larvae of dragonflies 

 hatched in the house and he thought the circulation of the blood, 

 which could be well seen, might prove of interest to the mem- 

 bers. The single blood vessel or aorta was described as well as 

 the character of the blood and the corpuscles. Although the 

 legs of the larvae are long, the corpuscles do not go beyond the 

 bases of the legs. The difficulty of observing the dorsal blood- 

 vessel in imagos was mentioned. Mr. Johnson stated that in 

 going over the literature of the Syrphid3e he had found a num- 

 ber of list names which were not now recognized in the literature. 

 Among them was Bacca keenii Will, which is the tarchetius of 

 Walker. This name keenii was given in the local list published 

 by Keen, a Philadelphian, in the Canadian Entomologist in Au- 

 gust, 1884. Dr. Skinner called attention to an illustrated journal 

 of entomology published in Japan in the language of the country. 

 Mr. Liebeck called attention to a curious mailing box for insects. 

 It was pasteboard, and was supported from the inside by a double 

 wooden gallows-like arrangement. 



Henry Skinner, M.D., Secretary. 



At the last meeting of the Feldman Collecting Social held on 

 February 8, at the residence of Mr. H. W. Wenzel, 1523 S. 13th 

 St., Phila. , the address of the retiring President, Dr. H. G. 

 Griffith, was read by the Secretary. It dwelt on the value of 

 fraternity and good-fellowship among entomologists, and on the 

 loss to science in general by the petty jealousies and unfriendli- 

 ness of co-laborers in that field. Prof. Smith exhibited sketches 

 illustrative of structural details of the peach-borer, Sannina 

 exitiosa. The antennae differ in the sexes, and possess at the 

 base an ear-like sensory organ, the first and second joints being 

 modified for its accommodation. Variation in the scaling of 

 individuals was shown, and the presence of jointed mandibles 



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