Vol. XXXl] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 57 



Horticultural Inspection, 3 on the codling moth, 4 on leaf- 

 hoppers, i on the chinch bug and 2 on the Hessian fly. 



The Botanical Society of America listed two papers on ants 

 (on their relations with fungi and on galls produced by them), 

 The American Phytopathological Society one on leaf hoppers 

 and hopperburn of potato leaves and the Ecological Society 

 of America one on the ecological succession of insects in stored 

 food products. 



At Princeton, the American Society of Naturalists heard 

 2 papers on cytology (Orthoptera) and 7 on genetics (6 of 

 them on Drosophila). The symposium was on "Some Rela- 

 tions of Biology to Human Welfare," to which Dr. W. M. 

 Wheeler contributed an informing and highly amusing paper 

 on "Biology and Society" in the form of a supposed letter 

 to the speaker from a king of the West African Termes belli- 

 cosus, describing the social organization of his community 

 and contrasting it with human society to the disadvantage 

 of the latter. 



In the Convocation Week meetings of 1918-19 but 64 en- 

 tomological papers were presented, as a result of war condi- 

 tions. This year's total of 128 is well up toward the previous 

 high record of 139 papers for the New York meeting of 1916- 

 17- 



Notes and Nevv^s 



ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS 

 OF THE GLOBE 



A Suggestion for a Better Popular Name for the Fulgoridae 



(Hemip.)- 



So far as I am aware the only common name that has ever been sug- 

 gested for members of the Family Fulgoridae is "lantern Flies," based 

 upon the supposition that a large South American species emits light. 

 Regardless of the merits of the arguments which have been advanced 

 pro and con in this case, the members of this family generally do not emit 

 light; the term lantern flies is, therefore, an evident misnomer. There- 

 fore, regardless of the fact that the name lantern flies is rather well estab- 

 lished for this family it would seem advisable to replace it by some other 

 name and I would suggest Plant Hoppers as being perhaps the most 

 suggestive name available, thus bringing the common name of the 



