3IO ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [NoV., '04 



Sph^ridium scarab^oides Linn, in Delaware. — In 1898 I recorded 

 (Ent. News, vol. ix, p. 172) the occurrence in northern New York of 

 this species in large numbers, the first specimens having been taken in 

 1896. Since then it has been recorded from central New York by the 

 writer and from southern New York (in the Catskill Mts. ) by Mr. R. F. 

 Pearsall (Ent. News, vol. xii, pp. 158 and 209). In the minutes of the 

 Newark Ent. Soc. for September 8, 1901 (Ent. News, vol. xii, p. 256), 

 it is recorded from the vicinity of Split Rock Pond, Morris Co., N. J., this 

 being the first record of its occurrence in New Jersey. 



The first record of its occurrence in Pennsylvania seems to be that 

 noted by Mr. G. W. Caffrey (Ent. News, vol. xii, p. 296), and the locality 

 given is eastern Pennsylvania, near Bethlehem. 



In the News for 1903 I find three references to the occurrence of this 

 species in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The first of these is in the 

 minutes of the Newark Ent. Soc. for February 8th (p. 97, vol. xiv), 

 where it is recorded from Chester, Morris Co., N. J., and also from An- 

 glesea. The second reference is to be found in the minutes of the Feld- 

 man Collecting Social for May 20th (p. 242), where its occurrence at the 

 Philadelphia neck is noted. The third reference is in the minutes of the 

 Newark Ent. Soc. for September 13th (p. 308), but the locality is not 

 given. 



On May 6th last, one of my students collected a single specimen of 

 this species here, and on the 14th, while in the field, I made a search for 

 the species and found it in large numbers in its favorite place, fresh cow- 

 droppings. 



It seems hardly probable that a beetle of its size could have been over- 

 looked long in a section of country which has been so thoroughly worked 

 over, entomologically, as southern New York, New Jersey and eastern 

 Pennsylvania, and it is to be inferred, therefore, that the species has been 

 rapidly extending its range southward along the Atlantic seaboard within 

 the past few years. — C. O. Houghton, Newark, Del. 



Meeting of the Official Entomologists of the Cotton Belt. — 

 The official entomologists of the cotton belt met at Jackson, Mississippi, 

 on August 2, 1904, to discuss matters related to the State quarantines 

 that are maintained for the purpose of preventing the introduction of the 

 cotton boll weevil into uninfested regions. Those present were Prof. C. 

 E. Chambliss, of South Carolina ; Prof. H. A. Morgan, of Louisiana ; 

 Mr. Wilmon Newell, of Georgia ; Prof. E. D. Sanderson, of Texas ; Mr. 

 Reed, representing Prof. G. W. Herrick. of Mississippi, and Messrs. W. 

 D. Hunter and A. W. Morrill, of the Bureau of Entomology, United 

 States Department of Agriculture. Organization was effected with Prof. 

 Chambliss in the Chair. 



The object of the meeting being to formulate a plan for bringing about 

 uniform State quarantine laws and regulations, the subject of the methods 

 of dissemination of the cotton boll weevil was recognized as of much im- 



