30 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [January, 



had a lot of clams for bait, and was surprised at the number of 

 Coleoptera they attracted. He also saw many specimens of 

 Phaleria testacea in hard cedar logs. 



Mr. C. W. Johnson called attention to an article in the first 

 report of the Michigan Academy of Science on a leaf-mining 

 Chii'onomus , but the species was not named. He said he had 

 received from Prof. Smith an allied Dipteron reared from the 

 leaves of the Victoria regia, and the3'^ were found to be Cricop- 

 top2(s sylvestris. Dr. Calvert said he would like to ask 

 whether it is better to give species fanciful names or name 

 them after some character of the insect. This was discussed 

 pro and con by those present. Mr. Laurent said Mr. Daecke 

 had reported Agrotis violaris from Manumuskin, N. J. The 

 speaker said he knew of but one other specimen in any other 

 Philadelphia collection, and that was the type in the collection 

 of the American Entomological Society. He also showed the 

 chrysalis of Callidryas eubule, and said the larva of Sphinx 

 plebeius was plentiful on the trumpet vine at Anglesea, N, J. 

 He also reported Tettigea hieroglyphica from Da Costa, N. J., 

 on July, nth. Dr. T. H. Montgomery, Jr., was elected a 

 Member and Mr. Erich Daecke an Associate. 



Henry Skinner, Recorder. 



At the November meeting of the Feldman Collecting Social, 

 held at the residence of Mr. H. W. Wenzel, 1523 South Thir- 

 teenth Street, fifteen persons were present. 



Prof. J. B. Smith spoke of a recent collecting trip to Ocean 

 County, N. J., on November 19th, and said that he had found 

 numerous mosquito larvae living in pitcher plants. The plant 

 is a veritable trap for insects, which disintegrate after death 

 and lie in a decaying mass on the bottom of the plant, in 

 which the young mosquitos are nourished. 



Dr. Skinner referred to a recent article by Mr. Barrett in 

 Entomological News, on a dragonfly larva which was sup- 

 posed to live in the large leaves of some plants containing 

 water, inasmuch as the region in which the .species is found is 

 unusually dry and not propitious for dragonfly larvae. 



Prof. Smith spoke on the great destructiveness of the Hessian 



