430 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Nov., '14 



May, 1893, but the present specimens differ in some details 

 from that description. 



Mr. Harbeck exhibited a specimen of Brachyopa taken by 

 Mr. Lewis Unriih on Dogwood blossoms at Wenonah, New 

 Jersey, May 10, 1914. There are no specimens of this Dip- 

 terous genus mentioned in the New Jersey List, but he has 

 taken vacua O. S. at Roxborough, Pennsylvania. The one ex- 

 hibited does not agree with any of the species he knows. Also 

 exhibited a specimen of Myiolepta strigilata Loew taken by 

 himself at lona, New Jersey, May 17, 1914. Said that Gnor- 

 imus rnaculosus Knoch (Col.) was quite common on Dogwood 

 blossoms at Wenonah, New Jersey, May 10, 1914. 



Mr. Daecke described some of the interesting collecting 

 places around Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, of which there are 

 many in the mountains of that district. Recorded and exhib- 

 ited the following two species of Coleoptera, family Elateridae : 

 Corymbites fidvipes Bland, Rockville, Pennsylvania, April 19, 

 1914, and Lvmonius stigma Herbst, same locality and date. 



Mr. Kaeber said that the meadows of the Philadelphia Neck 

 have been filled in and there are many young willows there ; 

 though they look perfectly healthy, fully 75 per cent, are in- 

 fested with Cryptorhynchns lapathi Linn. (Col.). He has bred 

 the following Coleoptera: (i) — Alaus ocnlatus Linn, from 

 decaying oaks, April 27, 1914, (2) — Melasis pectinicornis 

 Alelsh. from hickory. May 3, 1914 (and every warm day since), 

 (3) — Desmocerus palliatus Forst. April 28j 1914. (4) — Xylo- 

 trechus colonus Fabr. June 21, 1913, and (5) — Acanthoderus 

 decipicns Hald. June 15, 1913 ; numbers 3, 4 and 5 were raised 

 from larvae (in glass tubes). He exhibited a pair of brass 

 forceps of his own make with a small cup arrangement on the 

 tips for picking up small insects found under bark. 



Mr. H. W. Wenzel said he had taken the usual spring forms 

 (which are very early this year) in southern New Jersey on 

 the pine, including eight Buprestis xdtramarina Say. He ex- 

 hibited Elater sayi LeC. Philadelphia, May 14, and Buprestis 

 decora Fabr. Philadelphia, May 15, both accidentals captured 

 by George Mahoney. 



