28 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [January, 



A meeting of the American Entomological Society was held 

 October 25th. Dr. P. P. Calvert, President, in the chair. Mr. 

 H. W. Wenzel donated a large and interesting collection of 

 ants from the vicinity of Philadelphia and certain places in New 

 Jersey. They were taken while searching for Pselaphidse and 

 Scydmaenidae. Mr. C. SchaefFer of the American Museum of 

 Natural History, New York, called attention to a mistake in 

 most collections of Coleoptera. The Cerambycids Acanthocinus 

 obliqiuis and picsilhis were considered synonymous, the latter 

 being placed as a synonym of the former by Bates, whereas 

 they are quite distinct, according to the speaker, who pointed 

 out marked differences in the elytra and punctuation. Mr. 

 Liebeck exhibited a paper-knife with a rabbit-foot handle, the 

 hide of which had been entirely eaten by an insect, nothing 

 being left but the bones. The insect doing the damage was 

 probably Tinea biselliella. Mr. Wenzel exhibited fourteen 

 specimens of Cychrus elevatus showing great variation in size 

 and other characters. Mr. Schaeffer exhibited a species of 

 Coleoptera from Florida which is near the genus Anomala, but 

 quite distinct. Mr. Wenzel said that in Mr. Schwarz's paper 

 on Myrmecophilus insects he had mentioned Adranes ccecus as 

 being found with but one species of ant, but the speaker had 

 found this species with four species of ants as follows : Lasins 

 mixtus, alienus var. americamis, Lasius aphidicola and AphcB- 

 nogaster aquia. He also corroborates Mr. Schwarz's observa- 

 tion in regard to Batrisus ione being found only with Lasius 

 alienis var. amei'icana. A colony of Formica i^itegra was ex- 

 amined in the fall and 14 specimens of Cydius ziegleri M'tr& 

 taken. The following week the ants had entirely disappeared. 

 The very minute species of Scydmaenidae, belonging to the 

 genus Opressus, are exceedingly swift runners. Mr. lyiebeck 

 said he had seen Hetcerius brwiyieipennis from a large ant's nest 

 brought to the Academy. 



Dr. Calvert mentioned two dragonflies brought in b)^ Mr. 

 Daecke which had been taken at Manumuskin, N. J., and said 

 Gomphus plagiatus was new to the New Jersey list, although 

 the speaker had taken it in Pennsylvania. Mr. L,iebeck men- 



