June, 'o6] entomological news. 229 



A meeting of the American Entomological Society was held 

 April 26, 1906. Dr. Philip P. Calvert, President, in the chair. 

 Thirteen persons present. 



H. W. Wenzel donated a collection of blind Carabidse from 

 caves in Austria. 



A letter was read from Dr. C. Brunner von Wattenwyl, 

 acknowledging his election as a corresponding member. 



Mr. Henry L. Viereck made a communication on the nests 

 of wild digger-bees. Dr. McCook found about two hundred 

 such nests on his place at Devon, and Mr. Viereck made casts 

 of about a dozen of these. They ranged from eleven to twelve 

 inches in depth, and were mostly straight, with a lateral at the 

 end. A cast and entrance of nest were exhibited and the 

 method of making the former explained. 



Mr. Rehn exhibited some new or rare Orthoptera, among 

 them a new and large Phasmid from Tonkin, and a new Man- 

 tis from the Huachuca Mts. 



Mr. Ilg exhibited a specimen of Biston ursarius new to him 

 and taken at Philadelphia. 



Dr. Skinner exhibited a new Acmceodera from the Huachuca 

 Mts., Arizona. 



Mr. Rehn spoke of the collection of Orthoptera made by 

 Prof. Snow at San Bernardino Ranch, Arizona, and the inter- 

 esting species found. Stagmoma?itis limbata and Carolina were 

 mentioned and the differences in their anatomy pointed out. 



Dr. Calvert exhibited a section of a grass-hopper in which a 

 malphigian tube passed into the dorsal blood vessel or heart. 

 He also said he had kept a lubber grass-hopper (Dictyophorus 

 reticulars) alive in captivity for four months and two weeks. 

 Mr. Rehn said the species had been found as far north as 

 South Carolina. Henry Skinner, Secretary. 



Prof. M. J. Elrod, in studying the Hesperidae for his interesting work 

 on the Butterflies of Montana (Bulletin No. 30, University of Montana), 

 evidently used a revision based on male secondary sexual characters, as 

 the figure called Ochlodes sassacus 9 on page 156 is a Noctuid, Melic- 

 leptria sueta Grote. No doubt the table he followed ran out quite natu- 

 rally to this moth.— Henry Skinner. 



