142 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Mar., ’16 
Doings of Societies. 
' Entomological Section, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. 
Meeting of November 18th, 1915. Twelve persons present, Mr. Phil- 
ip Laurent, Director, presiding. 
Lepidoptera.—Mr. Daecke exhibited Thecla liparops, taken at 
Carlisle Junction, Pennsylvania, July oth, 1909, and Thecla edwardsi, 
Hunter’s Run, Pennsylvania, July 11th, 1914, the latter species being 
abundant. Dr. Skinner exhibited the Academy collection of the Pierid 
genus Delias and called attention to the predominance of orange in 
butterflies that extend their range into the tropics. 
Diptera.—Mr. Hornig said he had found Culex pipiens breeding 
on November ist and Anopheles punctipennis on November 5th this 
fall. 
Orthoptera.—Mr. Rehn referred to the area from Florida to 
Texas, over which he had collected in conjunction with Mr. Hebard 
this summer. Former studies of the Orthoptera in the adjoining terri- 
tory were mentioned. The distribution of certain: species was pointed 
out and the various delimiting barriers mentioned and illustrated. Mr. 
Laurent exhibited a mounted specimen of Paratenodera sinenis in the 
act of catching and holding a humming-bird. He related the occur- 
rence of a Mantid of this species, catching a humming-bird, in Ger- 
mantown, Philadelphia, and represented the act by the mounted speci- 
mens shown.—HENRY SKINNER, Recorder. 
The Convocation Week Meetings: Horticultural Inspectors. 
The fourteenth annual meeting of the American Association of Offi- 
cial Horticultural Inspectors, an affiliated division of the Association of 
Economic Entomologists, was held in Columbus, Ohio, December 28 and 
29, 1915. The following papers of an entomological character were 
presented : 
Harry B. Weiss, New Brunswick, N. J., Foreign Pests Recently 
Established in New Jersey—E. R. SAsscer, Washington, D. C., Im- 
ported Insect Pests Collected on Imported Nursery Stock in IgI5, 
Remarks on Inspection Facilities in the District of Columbia, and 
Vacuum Fumigation and Its Application to the Control of Insects Af- 
fecting Plants and Plant Products—J. G. Sanpers, Madison, Wis., 
The Uniform Horticultural Inspection Law—J. H. Dayton, Paines- 
ville, Ohio, Report of the Legislative Committee of the National Nurs- 
erymen’s Association (Reported the acceptance of the Uniform In- 
spection Bill by the nurserymen at their national convention in Detroit, 
Michigan, June, 1915; said that’ it was a gratifying advance in horti- 
cultural legislation to note the closer feeling of co-operation among 
the nurserymen and the entomologists; conveyed the sentiments of 
the nurserymen to this Association and expressed a wish for the con- 
tinued good feeling and co-operation existing at present.)—F. M. 
O’ByrneE, Gainesville, Fla., Nursery Inspection in Florida—J. Epwarp 
