Dec, '07] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 457 



Mr. Wenzel exhibited specimens of Coleoptera taken by his 

 son, H. A. Wenzel, in the Huachuca Mountains, Cochise Co., 

 Arizona. Crioprosopus magnificus and Cicindela santaclarae, 

 the latter in both the green and brown forms, Pasimachus viexi- 

 canus, Amblychila baroni were shown. The latter were found 

 under stones. Over fifty species of Coccinellidae were taken. 



Dr. Skinner exhibited some Coleoptera from Manitoba and 

 Saskatchewan, among them being Cicindela manitoba, cincti- 

 pcnnis and limbata. 



Mr. Rehn spoke of his trip in the southwest in conjunction 

 with Mr. Hebard. They brought back about four thousand 

 specimens of Orthoptera. He said tubes were much better 

 than envelopes for the grasshoppers. Some of the material 

 was exhibited. 



Mr. Daecke exhibited Orchelimum minor which he found 

 ovipositing in pine at Brown's Mills, N. J., Sept. 15th. He 

 also reported Dendrotettix quercus from Bamber, N. J., Aug. 

 17th, heretofore not known from the Atlantic coast. 



Henry Skinner, Recorder. 



Meeting of the Brooklyn Entomological Society, 55 Stuyve- 

 sant Avenue, Brooklyn, New York, June 6th, 1907. President 

 1 )r. Zabriskie in the chair ; sixteen members and three visitors 

 present. 



Mr. Dow continued his address delivered before the Society 

 in April, on "The Dignity of Nomenclature." Fabricius, who 

 was quoted as having followed in the footsteps of his tutor, 

 Linnaeus, had a coterie of children and young people, whose 

 names he would sometimes apply to insects, as, for example, 

 "/ 'din'ssa'' and "Thccla." His adoption of popular terms, such 

 as "woolly bear" or "wolf," can be recognized in Arctia and 

 Lycaena. 



Among the names by other authors mentioned as particu- 

 larly appropriate were: Hadcna, a nightflyer, by Schranck, 

 and Agrotis, field-workers, by Ochsenheimer. 



In a general discussion, following the address, the use of 

 descriptive names was endorsed. 



Geo. P. Engelhardt, Rec. Sec. 



