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exact locations." Mr. Huntington spoke about photography 

 as it was applied by the Canadian Government in surveying the 

 Rocky Mountains of Canada. Mr. Schaeffer spoke of the dif- 

 ficulty of collecting Cicindela santaclara on the plains at Pal- 

 merlee, Ariz. Mr. Schaffer exhibited some species of the 

 genus A?wmala, among them being four entirely new and four 

 being new to North America ; one species being from Lower 

 California, two from Texas and others from Arizona. 



F. Haimbach, Secretary. 



A meeting of the Feldman Collecting Social was held March 

 21, '06, at the residence of Mr. Henry W. Wenzel, 1523 S. 13th 

 St., Philadelphia, Mr. Erich Daecke, President, in the chair. 

 Members present : Daecke, Wenzel, Laurent, A. Hoyer, 

 Seiss, Harbeck, Castle and Skinner. Mr. Wm. Beutenmuller, 

 New York, visitor. The minutes of the last meeting were 

 read and approved. Mr. Wenzel said he had received a num- 

 ber of postals from our fellow-member, Prof. J. B. Smith, who 

 is abroad. Mr. Beutenmuller said he had collected a number 

 of Staphylinidae during trips to the mountains of North Caro- 

 lina in the last five years. Nine species of Oxyporus were 

 taken. Femoralis and major were common . The other species 

 found were stygicus, vittatus, fasciatus, bicolor, lateralis, lepidus 

 5-maculatus. They were all taken in the fall execpt stygicus, 

 which was found in May. Dr. Castle said he had found O. 

 major plentiful at Angora, Pa., in the fall. On March 10th, 

 Mr. Harbeck said he took five species of diptera, seventeen 

 specimens, at Germantown, Phila. , including Fucellia fucorum , 

 which only appeared while the sun was shining. Mr. Wenzel 

 exhibited a pair of Strataegus sple?ide?is from Tybee Island, 

 Ga. , taken by H. A. Wenzel. Mr. Daecke reported having 

 been out collecting on March nth, and took a dipterous larva 

 feeding on spider eggs and some other hibernating imagos 

 and larvae. In a small spot protected from the cold, he took 

 some insects on wild honeysuckle. In a box of farina he found 

 an imago and many larvae of Ephestia kuehniella. 



Dr. Skinner invited the Social to meet at his home at the 

 next meeting (April). Henry Skinner, Recorder pro tern. 



