408 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Nov., '07 



The greatest danger of transporting the insect from one 

 place to another comes from the trolley lines and from auto- 

 mobiles that run through every portion of the infested district 

 and out of it into those that are yet uninfested. 



Geo. P. Engelhardt, Recording Secretary. 



A meeting of the Feldman Collecting Social was held May 

 I 5> l 9°7, at the residence of Mr. H. W. Wenzel, No. 1523 So. 

 13th Street, Philadelphia. Mr. E. Daecke, President, in the 

 chair ; thirteen members were present. , 



The President congratulated the newly elected members, and 

 urged them to do what they can to help the Social, by prompt 

 attendance, and by introducing communications at the meeting. 



The resignation of Mr. Wm. J. Fox was read and accepted 

 with regrets of the Social. 



Mr. Harbeck offered the following correction : Chaetona 

 macroptera v. d. Wulp, reported in meeting of Social on Dec. 

 19, 1906, as having been taken at German town, Pa., on May 

 21, '06, should have been Trenton, N. J., July 7, '06. 



Dr. Castle exhibited some interesting Coleoptera taken at 

 Angora, Pa., on May 13th of the present year. 



Mr. H. W. Wenzel reported the capture by Mr. Kaeber of 

 Soronia grisea at Clementon, N. J. Mr. Wenzel compared 

 these specimens with the specimens in the Horn collection. 

 The species is not in our list, being an introduced species from 

 Europe. 



Mr. Wenzel exhibited an apparatus devised to be used in the 

 place of an umbrella, and for other uses in collecting Coleoptera. 



Mr. Greene exhibited specimens of a parasitic Hymenopter 

 (Cryptus species) bred from a Cecropia cocoon. 



Mr. Laurent remarked that in working up his material col- 

 lected in Florida this spring, he finds that there are more 

 interesting species in it than he had expected. 



Mr. H. W. Wenzel read extracts from a paper by H. C. Fall 

 on the life history of Sphaericus gibboides. The species has 

 been found to be a pest in Herbariums, collections of Coleop- 

 tera and red pepper. 



