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even the commonest and most widely spread species to enable those 

 studying the distribution of species in a comprehensive fashion, to 

 utilize such records in their own work. Frequently a general state- 

 ment of distribution must later, when more evidence is in hand, be 

 qualified by zonal or environmental restriction. (J. A. G. R.) 



Doings of Societies. 



FELDMAN COLLECTING SOCIAL. 



Meeting: of June 21st, 191 1, at 1523 South Thirteenth Street, 

 Philadelphia. Fifteen members present. Mr. John Green, of 

 Easton, Pa., visitor. President Haimbach in the chair. 



Dr. Skinner described his recent visit to the Carnegie Mu- 

 seum in Pittsburg. Pa., where he studied the Edwards collec- 

 tion of Lepidoptera. He said he had had his doubts as to the 

 validity of certain species which Edwards described and men- 

 tioned one, as being satisfactorily placed by himself before 

 studying the type material ; Pamphila viris which is a topo- 

 morph, a northern form of a California species described by 

 Boisduval. The collection as a whole is very poorly arranged. 



He also said that Nodonota puncticollis Say (Col.) has been 

 very destructive to rose bushes at Ardmore. Pa., since 1909, eat- 

 ing everything but the roots. Dr. Dixon had reported it to him 

 as feeding this year on the tops of red oaks at Black Rock 

 Farm, Gladwyn, Pa. 



Mr. Daecke exhibited a box of several orders of insects show- 

 ing the diversity of one day's catch at Inglenook, Pa.. May 30. 

 191 1, and pointed out the following as interesting: Leptura 

 octopitnctata Say, and Toxotus trwittatits Say (Col.) both 

 found on Vihurmim acerifolimn Linn, the former common and 

 the latter rare, saying they were so thickly covered with pollen 

 as to look like lumps on the flower: Eniniesa labiata Say (Col.) 

 one specimen; a Microlepidopter, a species of Micropteryx. 

 and the following Diptera : Coenomyia fcrruginea Scop., Xi- 

 phura fiimipennis O. S., Nephrocerus daeckii Johnson (of 

 which there are only six specimens known), Laphria sericea Say 



