Vol. XXXl] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS II3 



going into these burrows and had reached the conclusion that they are 

 parasitic on the Sphecius. 



Homoptera. — Dr. Skinner exhibited a potted plant on which were 

 many Aphids most of which he had killed by blowing tobacco smoke in a 

 paper cone while covering the plant. 



Coleoptera. — Mr. Chamberlain said that he had noticed in the eastern 

 collections, specimens labelled Acmaeodera pidcherrima Du Val, distributed 

 mostly by Mr. Beyer. This species is only found in Cuba and Florida 

 and those examined were A. cubaecola Du Val.* Had seen a specimen of 

 Buprestis adjecta LeC. in the Brooklyn Museum collected on Staten Is- 

 land about ten days ago, and which he thinks is the most northern record. 

 He has completed an index of all our Buprestidae including synonyms 

 and all available records and where possible the locations of the types. 



Geo. M. Greene, Recorder. 



Meeting of September 25, 1919, Vice-Director R. C. Williams presiding, 

 and eleven persons present. 



Mr. Rehn spoke about the impossibility of obtaining potassium cyanide 

 for making killing bottles to be used on his western trip with Mr. Hebard. 

 but found that sodium cyanide after severe trials proved to be as good, 

 if not better, a killing medium. General discussion followed as to the 

 merits of the various killing agents and of the methods of making killing 

 bottles. 



Mr. Rehn gave a brief account of his summer trip, accompanying Mr. 

 Hebard, in the western states, and illustrating his remarks with some photo- 

 graphs projected on the screen. 



Lepidoptera. — Dr. Skinner exhibited a gynandromorphic specimen of 

 Papilio turniis with the right wings of a yellow male, and the left of a black 

 female. This specimen was collected at Merion, Pa., July 5, 1919, by 

 Geo. F. Pettinos, Jr. Mr. Baylis exhibited bred specimens of Catocala 

 minerva, also beautifully executed colored drawings of its larvae showing 

 various instars. Dr. Calvert exhibited pupal skin of Catocala amatrix 

 Hiib. with bits of a decaying wooden hand rail in which its cocoon had 

 been found near Cheyney, Pennsylvania, August 8, 19 19, as well as the 

 imago which had issued therefrom on August 23 or 24. 



Odonata. — Dr. Calvert exhibited the type of Erpetogomphiis schansi 

 Calv., and the female of E. diadophis Calv. (?), both from Guatemala, 

 collected by Messrs. W. Schaus and J. Barnes, described in Entomological 

 News for March, 1919; an immature male of Neoneiira aaroni Calv., from 

 the same country and collection, a species hitherto unknown from else- 

 where than Texas (Ent. News, June, 1919); Gomphus furcifer Hagen, a 

 female found floating, headless, in a pond, Stockbridge township, Berk- 

 shire County, Massachusetts, July 28, 1917, by the speaker, the only speci- 

 men of this species he had met and but rarely recorded from New England. 



[*Cf. Van Dyke, Ent. News, x.xx, 190. — Ed.] 



