70 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. Feb., '06 



Rare Catches in Eastern Connecticut. — I do not think that I 

 ever saw a butterfly on the wing on November 18th before this year, 

 although I have been an interested observer for 35 years. To-day I 

 captured upon my lawn a fair specimen of that rare fly for this latitude, 

 Vanessa J. album. It is the first one I ever captured. Mr. Archibald 

 Mitchell has taken three in the past 30 years, and two of them were taken 

 in his dwelling. I was surprised on July 22nd of this year by the sight 

 of Vanessa tnilberti in my garden, and I had the good fortune to cap- 

 ture it. It showed no wear from prolonged flight and was in fine plum- 

 age. In 30 years I have only seen one other specimen hereabouts and 

 that was 20 miles north of Norwich. After the middle of October I have 

 had brought to me Drury's Saturia maia from the fields as fresh as if 

 just emerged, and I have since thought that their late appearance may 

 make them seem to be rarer than they are. Then there is Drury's P. 

 efiimenis, which flies here and is taken on the wing as early as April 12th 

 when the temperature is quite cool. Only one example of Drury's 

 Erebus odora have I seen, and that was captured in first-class condition. 

 Only one Junonia coenia have I ever seen in New England, and that was 

 on a shingly beach at Ipswich, Mass. While Vanessa J. album is reported 

 to be rare south of Northern New Hampshire anc Maine, I had the luck 

 three years ago on a cool October day to see, when without a collecting 

 kit, a half dozen or more flitting about a trolley car station a few miles 

 west of Taunton, Mass. — A.'W. Pearson, Norwich, Conn. 



Doings of Societies. 



At the meeting of the Feldman Collecting Social, held De- 

 cember 20th, 1905, at the residence of Mr. H. W. Wenzel, 

 ten members were present and Dr. Molson, visitor. President 

 Daecke in the chair. Mr. Laurent exhibited bred specimens 

 of Pamphila manataaqua and cernes pointing out how to dif- 

 ferentiate the two species, but adhering to Dr. Skinner's remark 

 that they are closely allied specifically, and he asked to know 

 the structural differences by which the two species were placed 

 in different genera by Dr. Dyar. 



Mr. Haimbach exhibited some specimens of Coleoptera and 

 Lepidoptera, taken at Roxborough on December 3rd, under bark. 

 Among the latter there were several specimens of Phyllocnistis 

 vitigenella Clem. This species is represented in the speaker's 

 collection by specimens taken at Cincinnati, Ohio, on May 

 2nd, August 25th and October 9th, and at Roxborough, Phila- 

 delphia, on December 3rd.' 



F. Haimbach, Secretary. 



