238 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [May, 'l/ 



at the inauguration of Wallace Carl Riddick as President. President 

 Skinner reported that he had appointed Prof. Franklin Sherman, Jr., 

 of the Dept. of Agriculture, Raleigh, N. C, to represent the society. 



Dr. Skinner called attention to the requirement of the Society that 

 duplicate material be sent in with papers offered for publication de- 

 scribing new species, and stated that iMiss Annette F. Braun had sent 

 in' 65 species of Nepticulidae, including cotypes and paratypes, with 

 her paper. 



Orthoptera, Air. Rehn exhibited a specimen of Circoicttix splcndi- 

 dtis from Mount Lowe. 



The meeting was followed by an interesting informal talk by Dr. 

 Skinner, illustrated by lantern slides using the newly acquired lantern, 

 and describing and illustrating his collecting experiences in Carolina, 

 Cuba, and the Rocky Mountains of Canada and Arizona. This was 

 followed by a talk by Mr. Rehn, who showed slides of the localities 

 visited by him and Mr. Hebard, in Arizona and elsewhere on their re- 

 cent trips, and related interesting collecting experiences. — R. C. Wil- 

 liams, Jr., Recording Secretary. 



Newark Entomological Society. 



Meetings of February 11 and March 11, 1917, held in the Newark 

 (New Jersey) Public Library, President Buchholz in the chair; average 

 attendance, nine members. 



Lepidoptera. At the February meeting Mr. Rummel exhibited a Cyn- 

 thia cocoon containing two pupae, one of which had hatched, also a 

 series of Catocala ilia and the variety uxor, which he had collected at 

 Hagerstown, Maryland, July 6, 1916, and Haploa lecontei var. dyari and 

 var. militaris from the same locality. He also exhibited all of the species 

 of Scopelosoma recorded in Smith's 1909 list as being present in New 

 Jersey which he had collected during the latter part of October in the 

 Orange Mountains (New Jersey), this being an additional locality. At 

 the March meeting he exhibited a box of inflated larvae of Sphingidae 

 and Noctuidae and commented on the abundance of some species the 

 past summer. 



Homoptera. Mr. Lemmer, at the March meeting, exhibited a small 

 form of the Periodical Cicada which he had collected at Lyons Farms 

 (New Jersey), July 14, 1916. Brood VIII is recorded from New Jersey 

 only in Essex County and is due in 1917. His capture might have been 

 an early individual of this brood. Mr. Weiss recorded Aclcrda tokionis 

 Ckll., from Riverton, New Jersey, on bamboo. May 15, 1916 (identified 

 by Mr. H. Morrison), this being a Japanese scale insect recorded here- 

 tofore in the United States only from California. 



Hemiptera. Mr. Weiss mentioned at the March meeting his capture 

 of two tropical bugs, Cardiastethus tropicalis Champ., and Solcnonotus 



