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who would progress beyond the general level of stagnation, this book 

 should be an absolute necessity; and the more of them who "read, 

 mark, learn and inwardly digest" its contents, the better it will be for 

 the future progress of Entomology. 



The general appearance of the book could not be improved upon, 

 the type being very clear, and the plates and text-figures as fine as 

 we have seen. Only those who know the great difficulty involved in 

 producing even only a moderately good photograph of a delicate wing- 

 tracheation, can really appreciate the immense amount of skilled labor 

 that must have gone to the making of the illustrations in this book. 

 Plate I is a perfect masterpiece of technical art.— R. J. Tilly ard. 



Doings of Societies. 



American Entomological Society. 



Stated and annual meeting, December 9, 1918, in the hall of the 

 Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Vice President J. A. 

 G. Rehn in the chair; fifteen persons present. The annual reports 

 were read. The Publication Committee reported that Volume 44 of 

 the Transactions had been completed, but that the Memoirs for 1918 

 had been delayed by war conditions. The death of Mr. Benjamin 

 Hayes Smith, a member of long standing, was announced, together 

 with the fact that his collection of Coleoptera had been given by him 

 to the University of Pennsylvania some months previous to his death. 



The meeting then proceeded to ballot for officers and committees 

 for the year 1919, resulting in the following elections : President — ' 

 Henry Skinner, Vice-President — J. A. G. Rehn, Corres. Sec'y — Mor- 

 gan Hebard, Recording Sec'y — Geo. M. Greene, Treasurer — E. T. 

 Cresson. Publication Committee — J. A. G. Rehn, E. T. Cresson, P. P. 

 Calvert. Finance Committee, J. A. G. Rehn, D. M. Castle, Morgan 

 Hebard. Property Committee — E. T. Cresson Jr., Morgan Hebard, 

 Philip Laurent. — Capt. R. C. Williams, Recording Secretary. 



Feldman Collecting Social. 



Meeting of February 19, 1919, at the home of H. W. Wenzel, 5614 

 Stewart St., Philadelphia; six members present. Pres. H. W. Wenzel 

 in the chair. 



Coleoptera. Mr. Wenzel recorded, for J. Wagener Green, the 

 finding of Phyllotreta armoraciae Koch at Easton, Pennsylvania, and 

 read Chittenden's account from Insect Life, vii, p. 404, 1895, of the 

 first record of this "horse-radish flea-beetle" found within a quarter 

 of a mile of the Columbian Exposition Grounds at Chicago, Illinois. 

 He exhibited his own specimens, which are from Okanchee, Wis- 

 consin. General discussion followed. — Geo. M. Greene, Sec'y. 



