1899] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 51 



DOINGS OF SOCIETIES. 



At the December meeting of the Feldman Collecting Social, 

 nine members were present. Mr. H. Wenzel, on behalf of Dr. 

 Griffith, read a communication on the coleopterous fauna of 

 the Salt Eiver Valley, Arizona. The northern fauna com- 

 mingles with the Sonoran of Mexico. The paper contained a 

 list of five species of Cicindelidse and seventy-four species of 

 Carabidae taken by Dr. Griffith. 



Dr. Smith referred to a change of faunas due to the intro- 

 duction of sheep. On one side of a wire fence the lower an- 

 stial fauna of the region existed, whereas on the opposite 

 where the sheep pastured was the common widely distributed 

 fauna of the United States. 



He also exhibited some advance sheets of his forthcoming 

 new edition of the '' Catalogue of the Insects of New Jersey," 

 pertaining to the Othoptera. The new list will contain 142 

 species of this order against 114 in the old, and every species 

 has a definite record, whereas in the old list many records were 

 merely guess work. The same large percentage of increase 

 was shown in the other orders. He further stated that some 

 specimens of Conocephalus recently taken in the "Xeck,'' 

 Philadelphia, had proven to be C. glad'mtor Redt. heretofore 

 only known to occur in Texas and Mexico. 



Mr. Johnson exhibited a specimen of Cicada septemdecem 

 taken at Edge Hill, Montgomery county, in June last by Mr. 

 H. S. Viereck. It evidently represented brood seventeen due 

 in this State in 1898, but the speaker had observed no speci- 

 mens himself. 



Dr. Smith said the brood due in Xew Jei-sey this year 1898 

 was peculiar in its distribution ; it crossed the state diagonally 

 from Trenton and then struck northward, though small iso- 

 lated broods occurred at Vineland and netir Xew Brunswick. 



Wm. J. Fox, Seeretarv. 



At the annual mpeting of the American Entomological So 

 ciety held December 22, 1898, the following were elected to 

 serve as officers for the year 1899 : President, Henry C. Mc- 

 C^ook; Vice President, C. \V. Johnson; Treasurer, E. T. Cres- 

 sou; Recording Secretary, Henry Skinner ; Corresponding Sec- 

 retary, AV. J. Fox; Curator, Henry Skinner ; Librarian, W. .7, 



