238 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [May, ’08 
The Heink Entomological Club of St. Louis, Mo. held its 
regular monthly meeting on March 14th, Mr. C. L. Heink, 
presiding and all members present. 
Mr. Schroers reported that on February 14th a ceils 
perfect specimen of P. cresphontes flew into his office through 
an open window, but escaped before he could make an effort 
to capture it. 
Mr. Heink exhibited a large series of Anthocharis, includ- 
ing A. genutia and A. olympia, local forms. He stated that 
during many years of collecting about St. Louis, he has taken 
olympia almost every year, during the month of April, but 
only in one certain locality. 
Mr. Poepping exhibited a series of Conchylodes platinalis, 
which he found in abundance last season. 
Mr. Kelbly reported having taken that morning (March 14th) 
a fresh specimen of £. claudia, the wings of which were still 
flabby. AuG. KNETZGER, Secretary. 
The monthly meeting of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 
was held February 6th, President Pearsall in the chair and fif- 
teen members present, with four visitors. 
The evening was devoted to listening to an illustrated lec- 
ture by J. J. Levison, of the City Department of Parks, who 
has charge of the shade trees throughout Brooklyn and whose 
subject was: “the Enemies of our Shade Trees and Practical 
Methods of Combatting Them.” 
Insect enemies in Brooklyn are chiefly the tussock moth, 
N. leucostigma and the borer Zeugera pyrina. The city is 
divided into districts for the leucostigma, each cleared in turn 
by scraping off the egg masses and burning them. Unfortunately 
the department has no supervision over back yards and 
other private property and the very people who make the most 
urgent requests upon the department are the ones who would 
not spend ten cents on bands to keep a fresh brood of caterpil- 
lars from ascending the trees. The only way to fight the pyrina 
is to pour a little carbon bisulphide in each caterpillar tunnel 
and plug it. 
