20 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [January 



DOINGS OF SOCIETIES. 



At the N^ovember meetiug; of the Feldman Collecting Social, 

 held at the residence of Mr. H. W. Wenzel, 1523 South 13th 

 street, eleven members were present. On behalf of Mr. Lau- 

 rent, Mr. Wenzel exhibited a collection of Lepidoptera made by 

 himself and Mr. E. Wenzel at North Mountain, Pa., in July, 

 calling particular attention to Endropia nerrata, which had 

 been taken abundantly; also to Plusia cereoides and P. uaureum, 

 which were probably not liefore recorded from Pennsylvania. 

 Among- the unidentified material Dr. Skinner called attention 

 to a specimen of the rare Phmaformosa. 



Mr. H. Wenzel reported the capture of Casnonia ludoviciana 

 and other interesting species of Coleoptera, in New Jersey, on 

 October 12th. The same speaker referred to the forthcoming 

 new edition of Smith's Catalogue of the Insects of New Jersey, 

 and to the diversity of opinion of authorities as to the abun- 

 dance or rarity of certain species in the old work, and suggested 

 the advisability of having more consistent data, in the new 

 work. Discussed by Messrs. Johnson, Bland, Fox, H. Wenzel 

 and Castle. Mr. Johnson spoke of the extension of the Caro- 

 linian fauna into New Jersey. He had collected ninety-seven 

 species of Syrphidae in that State, of which only ten were 

 Southern species; of the Tachinidae ninety-six species, of which 

 twenty-seven may be said to be Southern. Five out of forty- 

 eight species of Tabanidae had not been recorded from so far 

 north, while out of thirty-four species of Bombylidae only six 

 are Southern. He did not think the Diptera formed as good a 

 basis for indicating faunal limits as did the Coleoptera or some 

 of the other orders of insects. Mr. H. Wenzel exhibited a 

 species of Lixus, from Auglesea, N. J., taken in August, which 

 he had only before known from Louisiana. The absence of 

 Mantis Carolina from the fauna of Southern New Jersey was 

 commented on by Mr. Seiss. Dr. Castle stated he had re- 

 ceived specimens of the Mantis from Chester county. Pa. 



Wm. J. Fox, Secretary. 



A meeting of the Entomological Section of the Academy of 

 Natural Sciences was held November 17th, Mr. C. S. Welles, 

 Director, presiding. Dr. Calvert stated that he had recently 

 mounted some specimens of the San Jose scale (Aspidiotus per- 



