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Mr. H. A. Wenzel exhibited a dozen specimens of Hetaerius 

 hrunnipennis Rand, and its host from Malvern, Pennsylvania, 

 May lo, 1914. Said he had found these beetles under a large 

 perforated stone in company with large black ants, and all the 

 specimens were in these perforations and not in the galleries 

 of the nest. The beetles are about 1-16 inch in diameter and 

 the ants and had found some of the specimens in the galleries, 

 the under side of the ant and are carried away. Air. Laurent 

 stated that while out collecting with Mr. Liebeck on April ri, 

 1914, at Mt. Airy, Philadelphia, Air. Liebeck found a colony 

 of black ants, from which they took a number of specimens of 

 this Histerid, but had not noticed any of them being carried by 

 the ants and had found some of the specimens in the galleries. 



Adjourned to the annex. 



Meeting at the same place June 17, 19 14. Eleven members 

 were present, Air. Lewis Unruh visitor, President H. A. Wen- 

 zel in the chair. 



Air. Daecke said he had caught many insects on Force Alt., 

 Pennsylvania, in the vicinity of Harrisburg, in the clearing 

 made where the oil pipe line crosses the ridge. He had often 

 wondered what mosquitoes fed on in the wilds where there 

 were no human beings until seeing a box tortoise in this clear- 

 ing one day with some insects flying about it, he caught them 

 in his net, and they proved to be Culex canadensis Theobald 

 filled with blood. He exhibited a micro-moth Hememene n. sp. 

 from Rockville, Pennsylvania, May 3, 1914, on papaw, — this 

 was formerly recorded from the State of Texas and Cincin- 

 nati, Ohio; another moth Mesolenca ruHciliata Gn., Dauphin, 

 Pennsylvania, Alay 24, 1914, was shown. He said he had 

 noticed two leaves (which were opposite each other) curled up 

 on a viburnum bush at Inglenook, Pennsylvania, June 7, 1914, 

 and upon examining them found a fine specimen of the beetle 

 Centrodcra dccolorata Harr., which is of a light brown color 

 the same as the leaves where found. 



Air. Huntington said that in the evening of June 7 at Great 

 Falls, Virginia, a searchlight was thrown on the falls and in- 



