April, '02] ENTOMOLOGICAL XKWS. I2J 



Brighton, Pa.; B. A. Overbeck, Allegheny, Pa.; Geo. X. 1'ohl, 

 Newcastle, Pa.; J. Reitlechner, Allegheny, Pa.; Rev. Jerome 

 Schmitt, Beatty, Pa.; Herbert H. Smith, Pittsburgh; Mrs. 

 Herbert H. Smith, Pittsburgh ; Frederick Somers, Allegheny, 

 Pa.; E. J. Voegtly, Pittsburgh ; V. J. Zarobsky, \Vilmerding, 

 Pa. 



After the transaction of business the President of the Society 

 placed on exhibition for the members who were present the 

 collection of Cicindelidse contained in the Ulke collection, 

 some thirty species of the Genus Morpho, including a remark- 

 ably fine pair of Morpho liecitbn, and a large series of specimens 

 representing various species of the Genus Tronics, (Ornithop- 

 tera ai/ct.) and its allies, among them .SV//<vv//V;x'7<r frtnuJisfti 

 and tithonus. 



The next meeting will be held on the evening of April 5, at 

 which a large attendance of the knights of the nets and cyanide 

 bottle is expected. 



At the February meeting of the Feldman Collecting Social, 

 held at the residence of Mr. H. \V. Wenzel, 1523 S. i^th Street, 

 eleven persons were present. 



The President read his deferred annual address for 1901. 



Prof. Smith referred to the fact that it was not known where 

 the various stages of L'ulc.\ sollicilans pass the winter. Referring 

 to LcHcania niiipundata, the lack of variation and non-tendency 

 to form new types were dwelt on. On the contrary, the wheat 

 head army worm, L. a/lu/inca , also widely distributed from 

 Canada to Mexico, had been confused with a supposed variety 

 which is really a distinct species. Among other supposed va- 

 rietal forms he had discovered no less than four distinct species 

 having good structural characters in the genitalia. The di- 

 vergence from the type of these varieties was dwelt on, and the 

 speaker did not believe the different varieties would interbreed 

 if the two sexes of the same form existed. These forms are local, 

 and in time would no doubt become distinct species. 



The peculiarities of local forms of ( 'iciiidcla and ('ri lints were 

 dwelt on by Messrs. H. Wen/el and Harbeck. 



Mr. Wen/el referred to the confusion in the synonym} of 



