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pleasure instead of a burden to use it. To wade through numerous 

 descriptions in numerous publications to identify species is a labor 

 that few care to undertake. With a majority of the species in the 

 Palsearctic fauna figured, it will be possible for students to take up 

 special work and add greatly to the sum of our knowledge of these 

 insects. A good figure is worth no end of "word pictures," but this 

 should not be considered as advocating the doing away with descrip- 

 tions entirely. Descriptive work should supplement the illustrations. 

 The indices are properly alphabetically arranged and the letter press 

 excellent. Species arranged under genera in an index is a most un- 

 fortunate arrangement in some works and conducive to profanity. 

 Such a work as this will of necessity stimulate study and research and 

 induce more students to take up the study of this branch of entomol- 

 ogy. Dr. Seitz is to be congratulated on his industry and perseverance 

 in getting out such a monumental work. It is to be hoped that he will 

 be able to go on with the other parts of it. — H. S. 



Doings of Societies. 



FELDtMAN COLLECTING SOCIAL. 



Meeting of September i6, 1914, at the home of H. W. 

 Wenzel, 5614 Stewart Street, Philadelphia. Thirteen mem- 

 bers were present. President Wenzel in the chair. 



Mr. Daecke said that some years ago, while at Bamber, 

 New Jersey, in company with Mr. Fenninger, he had attempted 

 to catch a large black My das (Dip.) which finally disappeared, 

 but he had seen enough to identify it as M. tibialis Wied., a 

 species generally found in Mexico, though the type locality is 

 Baltimore, Maryland. He exhibited a specimen of this species 

 collected by J. E. MacNeal at Perdix, Pennsylvania, July 19, 

 1914. He had received a species of Diptera, Cordyligaster 

 minuscida V. der W., from Mr. Banks in East Falls Church, 

 Virginia, and had captured the same species near Marietta, 

 Pennsylvania, July 14, 1914. Also exhibited a moth rare in 

 this State, Calpe canadensis Bethune, Riverview, June 23, 1914, 

 and a beetle. Purpuric enus axillaris Hald., Rockville, Penn- 

 sylvania, July 19, 1914, which is of an unusual color, red in- 

 stead of yellow. 



Dr. Castle said he had been to Pine Beach, New Jersey, and 

 the only species of Coleoptera common there was Calosoma 

 scutatpr Fabr., which he had seen in great numbers. 



Mr. Kaeber said he had found Sitodrepa panicea Linn. 

 (Col.) in barley which he placed in a jar. After two years the 



