lOS ENTOMOLOOICAL NEWS. [April 



A REGULAR mea ting of the Newark Entomological Society was 

 held Sunday, February 12th, at 4:00 p. m , with President Bischoff" 

 in the chair, and ten members present. Mr. Weidt proposed Mr, 

 W. D. Kearfott, who was unanimously electe3 a member. Mr. S. 

 T. Kemp read the following article on Saperda lateralis: 



•' During tiie winter of 1897-93 I found in a patch of under- 

 growth in the neighborhood of Merchantville. N. J., numerous 

 coleopterous larvae infesting the young shoots of hickory and oak. 

 One species which attracted my attention more than others, on ac- 

 couut of the apparent impossibility of collecting the larvae in their 

 natural abode, proved, on maturity, to he, Saperda lateralis. I only 

 found them on breaking off the dead shoots of hickory, which ap- 

 peared td grow out of old stumps of the original trees, cut off or 

 worn away close to the ground. They inhabit these shoots right at 

 the very base of them, and appear to burrow almost laterally and 

 slightly upwards. On breaking off these shoots, which were from 

 one to two inches in diameter, and which, when infested, break 

 clean off easily at the base, the larva becomes almost entirely ex- 

 posed, sometimes even falling out on to the ground. Not recognizinir 

 the species at the time, I visited the same patchabout the IstofMay, 

 1898. and collected a number of them which by this time had pup- 

 ated in th^ same situation, and when these matured, towards the 

 end of May. they gave me the information I desired, viz.: the name 

 of the species of larvfe I had been studying. 1 found,on close exam- 

 ination, that the wood attacked by this borer was iuvariablj' a 

 slioot that had bean bored during the previous season, and been 

 broken off' three or four feet above the ground by the larvas of Ela- 

 phidion parallehxm. 



"It appeared to me from my observation, that the litter species 

 commences the work of de3truction,andthat the wood is not in a tit 

 condition to suit the requi?'ements of Saperda lateralis until the 

 following season. I found mostly one, sometimes two, and occi 

 sionally in the largeit shoots three of the larv^ae in the same shoot, 

 but always in a separate burrow . The above noted habits of these 

 larvag may not be of much interest to experienced coleopterists, but 

 may be read with interest by beginners, judging from my personal 

 experience a few years back, and may tend to lead them to clo.ser 

 observation while on tiieir rambles in the country. 



S T. Kemp. 

 Klizaheth, A. ,/. 



Mr. Kearfott exhibited a series of blown larvae of the genus T>at^ 

 ana. Meeting adjourned. A. J- Weidt, Secretary. 



A meetinsr of the American Entomological Society was held Feb- 

 ruary 23d, Kev. H. C. McCook, D. D., president, in the chair. Dr. 

 Calvert exhibited a Sphinx larva from the collection of the Biologi 

 cal School of the University of Pennsylvania, which was so covered 



