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Wheeler, W. M.—Jamaican ants collected by C. T. Brues, 195, 1xi, 
457-71. 
Girault, A. AA—Notes on Hymenoptera Parasitica [1 n. g.; 2 n. 
sps.], 411, xi, 118. Isely, D—A synopsis of the petiolate wasps of 
the family Eumenidae, found in North America [9 new], 180, x, 
345-66. ‘Rohwer, S. A~—-The No. American wasps of the subgenus 
Pemphredon [4 new], 411, xi, 97-102. 
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Doings of Societies. 
Entomological Society of France. 
The treasurer’s report of the Entomological Society of France for 
1916 shows receipts to the amount of 27,670 francs and expenditures 
(including investments) of 25,400 francs. The capital of the Society 
December 31, 1916, was 139,038 francs. (Bull. Soc. Ent. France, 1917, 
No. 7). The Society awarded the Dollfuss prize for 1916 of 300 francs 
to Prof. Auguste Lameere, of the University of Brussels, for his works 
on Prionidae, and the Constant prize of 1916 of 500 francs to J. Sainte- 
Claire Deville for his Catalogue critique des Coléoptcres de la Corse 
(1914). 
Entomological Section, Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila- 
delphia. 
Meeting of November 22, 1917, Director Philip Laurent presiding 
and eight persons present. Henry W. Fowler was elected a contributor. 
Mr. J. A. G. Rehn made a communication on the physiography of sev- 
eral collecting regions of southern Arizona, illustrated by lantern slides. 
Diptera.—Dr. Skinner read an abstract of an article by McDunnell 
& Eastwood, relative to the overwintering of the house fly. Dr. Cal- 
vert exhibited larvae of Bibionidae (identified by comparison with fig. 
225, p. 476, of Vol. vi, Cambridge Nat. Hist.), some of a very great num- 
ber found near Media, Pennsylvania, November 11, 1917, by Dr. J. P. 
Moore. The larvae were observed in an area of about two square feet, 
at a depth of 2-3 inches, in soil near a peach tree, on which soil goat 
manure, mingled with decaying corn stalks and forest leaves, had been 
placed in the preceding winter. He referred to similar observations in 
the work cited, in Packard’s “Guide to the Study of Insects,” and in 
Kellogg’s “American Insects.” 
Lepidoptera.—Mr. Laurent presented two specimens of Aetha- 
loptera anticaria Walker from Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania, and blown 
larvae of three species of Datana. He also exhibited an interesting ab- 
normal male of Samia cecropia, also a female cecropia seven and one-— 
eighth inches in expanse. The speaker stated that this was the largest 
