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anatomy, development, metamorphoses and biology of insects. Of the 

 fourteen honorary members of the Society, eight are French (Bedel, 

 Bonvier, Brolemann, Faiivel, Joannis, Kiinckel d'Herculais. Mabille, 

 Raffray)t one Italian (Berlese), one Spanish (B®livar), one Ameri- 

 can (Howard), one Belgian (Lameere), one Russian (the grand- 

 duke Nicholas Romanoff) and one English (Sharp). The committee 

 on the Dollfus prize, of 300 francs annually, has recommended that 

 the award for 1917 be made to Dr. J. Villeneuve for his collective 

 works on Diptera. At the meeting of February 27, 1918, the treasurer 

 reported that the Minister of Public Instruction had granted the So- 

 ciety 350 francs for the support of its wo»-k. The President for 1918 

 is Dr. Paul Marchal. (From the Bulletins of the Society, 1917, 15 — 

 1918, 4). 



Feldman Collecting Social. 



Meeting of March 20th, 1918, at the home of H. W. Wenzel. 5614 

 Stewart St., Philadelphia. Twelve members present, Mr. Chas. 

 Bertsch, of this city, visitor. Pres. H. W. Wenzel in the chair. 



Coleoptera.- Mr. Geo. M. Greene exhibited specimens of Mylabris 

 amicus Horn from near Higley, Arizona, and a dried blossom of 

 Agave paJmcri Englm. on which they were collected, though this is 



not the food plant as pointed out by Cushman, J. Eco. Ent. iv, p. 498, 

 Dec, 191 1, where he states that it had been bred in company with M. 

 sallaci Sharp from pods of huisache (l^ichcllia farnesiana) from 

 Victoria. Texas. 



General. — Mr. Hornig gave an illustrated talk on the f\y and 

 mosquito problem about Philadelphia and the red tape encountered in 

 getting any work done. This was preceded by slides of Mr. Feldman, 

 the Jamesburg, New Jersey, and other groups of local entomologists, 

 and some intimate views of the officers of the Social, past and present. 



These slides were afterwards presented to the Social. — Geo. M. 



Greene, Scc'y. 



Foundation of the Entomological Society of Spain. 



The Sociedad Entomologica de Espaiia was founded January 9, 

 1918, as the result of a proposal sent out by an organizing committee 

 consisting of Senores Hermenegildo Gorria, of the Royal Academy 

 of Sciences and Arts of Barcelona, President: Jose M. Dusmet, of 

 the Royal Spanish Society of Natural History, Vice President; and 

 Longinos Navas, S. J., Secretary. The present official location of the 

 society is at the Colegio del Salvador at Zaragoza (Saragossa). The 

 statutes state that the object of the society is "the theoretical and 

 practical study of insects in their different aspects. It will include 

 then the study of the organography, biology and classification of in- 

 sects, as well as of the uses which can be derived from them or 

 their work and of the injuries which they inflict on animals and plants. 



