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HYMENOPTERA.— Emery, C On the thorax of ants and par- 

 ticularly of the neuters, 14 figs., 69, i.— Lagerheim, G. On Lasmsfuli- 

 ginosiis Latr. and its fungus culture, 67, i.— Stoyel, A. C A curious 

 instance of the labor-saving instinct in the leaf-cutting bees, Transactions 

 of the Hertfordshire Natural History Society, x, 5, London and Hertford, 

 Sept., '00. — Thor, S. See Arachnida. 



Doings of Societies. 



The fourteenth regtilar meeting of the Harris Club was held 

 at 35 Court Street, Boston, on the evening of February 15, 

 1901 , Mr. Newcomb presiding. Six new members were elected, 

 namel}- : Miss Denton, Miss Blount and Miss Wiswell, all of 

 Wellesley, Ma.ss. ; Me.ssrs. J. H. Herrick of Hudson, Mass., 

 A. J. Lewis of Boston, and Charles A. Osgood of Newtonville, 

 Mass. 



Mr. Bolster opened the discussion of ' ' winter collecting 

 with an account of methods pursued in collecting Coleoptera, — 

 sifting, examination of ant-hills, bark, etc. Mr. Swett told of 

 a harvest of Ichneumonidae obtained from a pine stump. Mr. 

 Morse exhibited a series of the Orthoptera which may be found 

 in New England during the winter. 



Mr. Lowell told of a water beetle, species undetermined, 

 which has lived in an aquarium for three years. Mr. Rogers 

 described the killing of young turtles by water beetles. 



Mr. Harvey Mitchell showed a melanic male of Colias philo- 

 dice from Medford, Mass., and an Argynnis, supposed to be 

 myrina, from Bryan tville, Mass., which displayed excessive 

 development of the silver markings of the under surfaces of the 

 secondaries, the interspaces being solid patches of silver. 



^Ir. Burrison exhibited some butterflies from Yellowstone 

 Park. W. L. W. Field, Secretary. 



The regular stated meeting of the Feldman Collecting Social 

 was held March 20, 1901, at the residence of H. W. Wenzel, 

 1523 South 13th St. Thirteen members present. Visitor, Mr. 

 H. Viereck. President Mr. Charles W. John.son in the chair. 



Professor Smith stated that one of the larvae of mo.squitoes 



