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canidae from Victoria. CiuHe—Chasiogmathmj gramti Stcph, Mr. 

 Dacdce said he had found feeding a \ivu^ ^edtnen of Trogodrrma 

 tartaU If eUh. in his collection at flarrisburi, an unusual place for this 

 specks of Derniestidx. Mr. H. W. Wenxel said a short time ago when 

 Mr. Schaeffer was here be m ent i oned four species of Coleoptera intro- 

 ducrd here from Europe which now have a foothold: two species of 

 Fkilonthus, a large AphoSus and Spkatridimm 2-pnsteUalmm Fabr. 

 Mr. H. A. Wenzcl while at LAnsdowae, Delaware Co., Pa, May i, 

 1915. captured two of these in large numbers: PkUonthut voriams 

 Payk. and the ^>*«mdMiMw 



I ipUoflaia Mr. Daecke exhibited Pyrgut centomrta* Ramh. and 

 Gonodontia obfirwmrim Hho.. both from Rockritte. Pa., April 25, 1915, 

 the bttcr being unc o mm o n in this State. 



IMpt«ra-Mr. Uarcat cxhibilcd terica of PolUnia rudig Fabr. and 

 Phormia rtgima Mcig. and Mated that be hMl captured specimens of 

 both spedcs every flMMrth in the year. 



Adjouraed to the annex. Gaoi M. GatsNt. Secretly. 



Th« Padlic Coast If oetiaga. 



The EaloaM>k>gical Society of America met on Monday aftcmooo, 

 August a. 00 Tuesday. August 3. and on Thursday. August 5, in Room 

 113. Agricttltorc HaU, University of California, at Berkeley, and on 

 Wednesday aftvaooo. August 4. in Room 490^ Department of Zookigy, 

 Stanford Univcnity. at Pak> Aho. The American Aaaoda t fc m of Eco- 

 nomic Entomologists met 00 Monday and Tuesday. August 9 and 10. 

 in Room ai6. Agriculture Hall. University of California. Some ento- 

 mological papers were also presented at the "«**!f'^t of Section F. 

 Zoology, of the American Assodataon for the Advancement of Science 

 and the American Genetic Aaaociation, August a-j. s-6. at Berkeley, 

 August 4. at Pldo Ako. We are indebted to Dr. Edwin C. Van Dyke, 

 of the Entomological Laboratory of the University of California, who 

 acted as Secretary of the Entomological Sodety. for information on the 

 mcctinga. There was an average attendance of about thirty at most 

 muftingi of the R n l o m ol o g i c a l Society; the Association of Economic 

 Entomologists had sKghtly more at some sessions. Eleven papers were 

 presented to the EaKNBological Society, eighteen to the Economic En- 

 to mn l n g i i t s, i nriiidi ag those read by title only, which, with four others 

 of ealoaological eoateat before other bodies, make a total of 33, as 

 compared with totals of 74, 85 and 96 for the winter ooovocaoion meet- 

 ings of 1913, 191J and 1914 respectively. A joint dinner with the Bio- 

 logicad Society of the Padfic was held on August 4. at 7 P. M. in the 

 Hotd Sutter. San Frandsoo. and was at tende d by many entomologists. 

 Kxcnrsions for soologisu to Ml Taaaalpais and Muir Woods on 

 August 7. in charge of Dr. C. Hart Merriam; to Randio La Brea on 

 August I J. conducted bf F. S. Daggett and John C Merriam; and to 

 the Scripps Institution for Biological Research, were arranged. 



