73 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [March 



DOINGS OF SOCIETIES. 



A regular meetiug of the Newark Entomological Society was 

 held at Turn Hall, Sunday, January 8th, at 4 p. ra. President Bis. 

 eh off presided, ten raerabers present. Mr. Bi-oadwell gave a list of 

 captures made by himself and Mr. Weidt at Boonton. N- J., August 

 20, 1898, with notes whether rare or common. 



Crocota rabicandaria, common locally. 



Noctua Inbricans, very common at Sugar. 



Mamesti-a legitima, rare at Sugar. 



Hadena sputatrix, common at Sugar. 



Hadena devastrix, rare at Sugar. 



Hadena modica, rare at Sugar. 



Perigea xantbioides. common at Sugar. 



Hyppa xylinoides, common at Sugar. 



Euplexia lucipara, i-are at Sugar. 



Leucania albilinea, rare at Sugar. 

 , Leucania pseudargyria, common at Sugar. 



Orthodes inflrma, rare at Sugar- 



Pyropbila pyramidoides, very common at Sugar. 



Erastria carueola, common at Sugar. 



Pai-arellia bistriaris, rare at Sugar. 



Pseudoglossa lubricalis, common at Sugar. 



Endropia amcenaria, common in field. 



Metrocampa margaritata, rare in field. 



Acidalia inductata, common in field. 



Boarmia crepesculina, common in field. 



Xanthorboe fluctuata, i-are in field. 



Phlyctsenia tertialis, very common in field. 



Pyrausta in sequalis, rare in field. 



Pyrausta argyralis, common in field. 



Evergestis straminalis, common in field, 



Crambns vulvigellus, common in field. 

 Mr. Angleman remarked that he bred Hydroecia cataphracta on 

 wild lettuce. 



Mr. Weidt reported the capture of Hydroecia necopina at light 

 at Newark. 



Donations were made to the Society's collection by Messi*s. 

 Brehme, Weidt, Herpers and Seib . 



Mr. Broad well rem irked that he took a specimen of Hypena 

 scabra from under the bark of a tree December 24, 1898. 



Mr Angelman proposed Mr. Ernest Monnier, who was unani- 

 mously elected a member. A. J. Weidt, Seci-etary. 



At the meeting of the Feldman Collecting Social held January 18, 

 at the i-esidence of Mr. H. W Wenzel, 1523 South Thirteenth street, 

 Philadelphia, ten persons were present. The President, Dr. D, M. 

 Castle, read his annual address, reviewing the oiMginand prog^'essof 

 the society. Mr. Wenzel recorded the capture, by sifting, of Apion 

 permimitum, PhfBnonotum exstriatum and Philhydrus cotisor, along 

 the New Jersey shore of the Delaware river, opposite Philadelphia- 



