1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 155 



lows, and that Mr. Ashmead had determined the species as A. pipistrelli 

 {not papistril/a, as the name is written in Ent. News). As A. pipistrelli 

 does exckisively live on Bats ( Vesperfilio pipistrellus and other species) 

 and in their nests, the American specimens must certainly belong to A. 

 hinindinis, which is not uncommon in the nests of Bam Swallows in North 

 and Central Europe. A. pipistrelli is a rare species, which has been found 

 in Central Europe and once in great abundance in Sweden in an old hol- 

 low tree inhabited by bats. It is, however, ver>' possible that both A. 

 pipistrelli and A. columbaria, which lives in dove-cots, also occur in N. 

 America, although they have been overlooked. Descriptions and figures 

 of these three species are published by Jenyns in Annals of " Natural His- 

 tory" 1839, PP- 241-244, and by Schenck in " Entom. Nachrichten" 1877, 

 pp. 182-183.— Dr. E- Bergroth, Tammerfors, Finland. 



Fourth Annu.\l Meeting of the Association of Economic En- 

 tomologists. — In accordance with an action of the Association, taken at 

 the Washington meeting, the fourth annual meeting will be held at Roch- 

 ester, N. Y., two days prior to the meeting of the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science. All members intending to present 

 papers are requested to forward titles to the undersigned before August 

 ist, in order that the program may be prepared in proper season. The 

 proceedings of our meetings are attracting the attention of working en- 

 tomologists of other countries, and it is to be hoped that members will 

 spare no efforts to make the coming meeting even better than those which 

 have preceded it. Owing to the continued ill-health of President Lintner, 

 and in order to relieve him of as much labor as possible, all correspond- 

 ence, unless of a nature necessitating his attention, may be addressed to 

 the Secretary, F. M. Webster, Columbus, Ohio. 



I find from Dr. McKnight's paper in April News concerning the Le- 

 pidoptera of the Adirondacks, that the fauna of that region is very similar 

 to ours at Franconia. I have taken there every moth of his list with these 

 exceptions : Lithosia Candida, Adoneta spinuloides, Arzarna diffusa, 

 Pseudanthrcecia coracias, Pityolita pedipalalis, Tortricodes bifidalis, and 

 perphaps three or four species of Agrotis, Tceniocampa and Hadena, as 

 these last are not yet fully identified in my collection. Of Lophopteryx 

 elegans Strk. I have a fine pair, male and female. They were taken at 

 light in June, 1886, and were named for me by Mr. Hy. Edwards. Like 

 Mr. McKnight's specimen, mine are suffused with brown from base to 

 subterminal space. In other respects they answer to description of No- 

 todonta simplaria Hy. Edw. — Annie Trumbull Slosson. 



CAPTURING BeMBIDIUM AND OTHER SMALL COLEOPTERA. — It may prOve 



a help to some of our numerous Coleopterists to know how to easily col- 

 lect these active little beetles which are so common along the shores of 

 lakes and rivers. Is there a collector who has not endeavored to pick 

 them up between his (her?) thumb and forefinger and transfer the speci- 

 mens to the cyanide or alcohol bottle, only to find them 7ion est just as 



