X52 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [May 



DOINGS OF SOCILTIES. 



At the March meeting of the Feldman Collecting Social held at 

 the invitation of Dr, Skinnei- at his residence, 716 N. 20th Street, 

 twelve members and tsvo visitors were present. 



Prof. J. B. Smith recorded a specimen of Phengodes InticolUs 

 from J^ew Jersey, it being new to the State. 



He also exhibited a series illustrating the variation of Crocota 

 auranUaca. They showed a greater range of variation than the 

 speaker had ever known in anv other species of Lepidoptera. 

 Knowledge of the life history will be necessary in determining 

 whether one or more species were represented. 



Mr. Liebeck referred to a previous communication on Plesiobaris 

 alhilatus and stated he had taken two specimens at Buena Vista, N. 

 J. They were beaten from the yellow daisy. 



Mr Johnson showed hickory twigs girdled in the form of a spiral 

 by an unknown larva 



Mr Liebeck read a communication from Prof. Caulder on the 

 variation of Cicindela scutellaris. The two varieties C niodesta 

 and C. rug (frons occnrved simultaneously, and were taken in copu- 

 lation at Warwick, R I. 



Prof. Smith said the varieties of this species occurred simul- 

 taneously at Manchester, N. J. 



Dr Skinner referred to the large number of species of lepidop- 

 tera, which had been taken by collectors at Miami, Fla. He has 

 recorded about seven<^y species ot diurnal lepidoptera, all taken in 

 about one month. He showed two specimens of Papilio troihis, 

 from Allen Co., Fla., which differ considerably in markings from 

 the typical form. He also exhibited Papilio aliaska, a geog- 

 raphical race of Papilio machaon, a European species, aliaska oc- 

 curring in Alaska Other species of Papilio were shown, including 

 Papilio turnus, whose variations were pointed out. The same 

 speaker read a paper on Philadelphia Entomologists and Entomol- 

 ogy as follows : 



'* The ' Quaker City ' has raised a stand^m of entomological 

 work under which some of our friends seem at times restless. It 

 must be remembered that entomology is no new thing in Philadel- 

 phia, and our city was the cradle of the study in this country. The 

 ■father of American Entomology, Thomas Say, was born here in 

 1787, and in 1812 became a member of the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences of Philadelphia, and 'turning his back on the financial 

 world as it were, began his entomological labors in earnest.' Ever 

 since that time entomology has flourished and men of mark have 

 made the city famous as a centre for the study- In 1859 the first 

 Entomological Society in America was founded, and it still flour- 

 ishes, along with its sister organizations, the Entomlogical Section 

 of the Academy and the Feldman Social. I said we had raised a 

 standard of work or technic, and perhaps we deserve no credit for 



