1899] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 219 



DOINGS OF SOCIETIES. 



A meeting of the American Entomological Society was held 

 June 22, Vice President Johnson in the chair. Thirteen persons 

 were present. A large collection of coleoptera was presented by Mr 

 S. N Dunning, of Hartford, Conn. Mr H W. Wenzel presented 

 200 specimens ot Orthoptei-a. The thanks of the Society were tend- 

 ered these two gentlemen for their generous donations.Mr. Liebeck 

 spoke of the long life of a barkbeetle, Rhagodera Utberculata, 

 which had been sent, gummed on a card, from Los Angeles, Cal , 

 to South Dakota and thence to Philadelphia, and was received in 

 the latter city alive. Mr Johnson exhibited a small saw-fly, Clau' 

 dia pecti)iicomis,\f\\\Q\\ had been determined by Mr. Ash mead. 

 He had bred them in I'earing the larvae of the rose leaf roller, 

 tortricid. It is probibly an introduced sp3cie9. Mr. Reif stated 

 that he had found about 500 larvae of Apatura celt is on Celtis Occi- 

 dent a lis a.t Bethlehem, Pa. The larvae is pale green with an an- 

 tlered head ard a forked tail. It is rare in the State. Dr. Skinner re- 

 ported the capture by Mr. Wilmer Stone, of Jlelitaea Harrisii at 

 Lopez, Sullivan county. Pa. The proposed directory of Amer 

 ican Entomologists to be published by the Society was mentioned 

 by the same speaker and ways and means of getting information 

 for it were discussed. The chairman announced the death of our 

 fellow membei", Dr- Horace G. Gritfith, and said his interest in na- 

 tural science was well known to the members, and that his loss 

 would be keenlv felt. Henry Skinner. 



Sec. 



At the May meeting of the FeldmanCJollecting Social held at the 

 residence of Mr. H. W. Wenzel. 1528 South Thirteenth street, Phila- 

 delphia, twelve persons were present. 



Mr Seiss read an article from a recent number of Gleanings in 

 Bee Culture, in which it was asserted that dragon-flies are not in- 

 jurious to bees in northern climates. The writer accounted for the 

 devouring of bees by dragon- flies in the South by saying that the 

 males migrated in the fall, at which time they apparently changed 

 their diet from mosquitoes and other insects to bees. The speaker 

 regai*dtd this theory as ridiculous. 



Mr. Johnson slated that Aeschna ingensiB extremely destructive 

 to bees in Florida. 



Mr. Boerner exhibited specimens of Trichopteryx Haldemani 

 from near Gloucester, X. J. 



Dr. * 'astle exhibited some recent captures of Coleoptera including 

 Dichelonycha fuscula . Out of 49 specimens taken on May 3d. only 

 one female was pi-esent ; on May G,50 per cent were females, and 

 on May 12 and 15 over 90 per cent, wereof that sex. 



Dr. Skinner pointed out that discrepancy between the sexes as 



