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midae (Trogositidae) and Cleridae from California [5 new], 411, 

 X, 25-33. Wichmann, H. — Zur kenntnis der Ipiden; III, 193, 1915, 

 102-7. 



HYMENOPTERA. Boveri, Th.— Ueber die entstehung der 

 eugsterschen zwitterbienen, 176, xli, 264-311. Davis, W. T.— A 

 Long Island ants' nest 18 feet in diameter, 6, 1915, 69. Fielde, 

 A. M. — On certain vesicles found in the integument of ants, 1, 

 1915, 36-40. Nicholson, C. — Hibernation of Vespa vulgaris, 21, 

 1915, 115-6. Rau, P.— The diflferentiation of the cocoons of Pelo- 

 poeus caementarius and Chalybion caeruleum, 5, 1915, 62-3. The 

 ability of the mud-dauber to recognize her own prey, 324, v, 240-49. 



Crawford, J. C. — Descriptions of new H., No. 9 [9 new], 50, 

 xlviii, 577-86. Gaige, F, M. — The Formicidae of Charity Island, 

 Lake Huron, 507, No. 5, 29 pp. Mann, W. M. — A new form of a 

 Southern ant from Natishon Island, Massachusetts, 5, 1915, 51. 

 Wheeler, W. M. — Neomyrma versus Oreomyrma, 5, 1915, 50. 



Doings of Societies. 



Entomological Section, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. 



Meeting of May 27, 191 5. Mr. Philip Laurent, Director, presided. 

 Ten persons present. 



Odonata. — Dr. Calvert said that in 1902 Mr. V. A. E. Daecke 

 had seen, but not taken, near Lucaston, New Jersey, a dragon fly, which 

 the speaker supposed from the description to be Anax longipes.* On 

 June 15th, 1914, a female longipes was taken at Clementon, N. J., by 

 Mr. D. W. Steckbeck, Instructor in Botany at the University of Penn- 

 sylvania, The specimen was exhibited. 



Arachnida. — Dr. Skinner exhibited specimens known in Texas as 

 the "adobe bug." It is Argas miniatus, a tick, very injurious to poul- 

 itry. Mr. Rehn said he had seen the species in great abundance in a 

 chicken house in Texas. Mr. G. M. Greene exhibited a living whip-tail 

 scorpion from Florida and remarked on the vertical position in which 

 the filamentous tail was held whenever the animal was aroused. 



Lepidoptera. — Dr. Skinner exhibited the variations of Lycaena 

 pseudargiohis and commented on the multiplicity of names for the spe- 

 cies. Mr. G. M. Greene exhibited Alypia octomaculata from Mt. Moriah, 

 Delaware County, Pennsylvania. 



Orthoptera, — Mr. Rehn said he had been studying African 

 roaches and referred to the varying length of the tegmina in certain 

 forms and concluded that the variations represented but a single spe- 

 cies. — Henry Skinner, Recorder. 



* See Ent. News, xiv, p. 35, Feb., 1903. 



