Dec., '02] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 32Q 



The regular meeting of the Chicago Entomological Society 

 was held in the John Crerar Library, Thursday evening, Octo- 

 ber 16, 1902. 



Eight members present. Visitor, Mr. F. E. Brown. Presi- 

 dent Longley in the chair. 



On behalf of the committee for securing pamphlet cases for 

 the society's collection, Mr. Kwiat reported that 15 cases had 

 been purchased at a cost of $5.00, and that the same were in 

 the hands of the curator. 



The committee on selecting topics for discussion, submitted 

 the following schedule of subjects for coming meetings : 



November meeting, paper by Prof. Tower, on the migrations 

 of the Genus Doryphora. 



December, report of year's progress and election of officers. 



January, Mr. Healy, on Satynts alope, in its various forms, 

 as illustrating climatic influence on races. 



February, a paper on insect wing venation by Prof. Need- 

 ham. 



March, Prof. Tower, a paper on metamorphoses. 



There being no further business before the meeting an in- 

 formal discussion was engaged in. Mr. Kwiat told of his ex- 

 perience in raising certain larvae, which had all perished by 

 some bacterial disease. 



Messrs. Comstock exhibited some of their Lepidoptera taken 

 in Colorado during the summer. 



Adjourned at 9.40. 



JOHN COMSTOCK, Secretary. 



The Entomological Society of Western Pennsylvania held 

 its regular meeting on November ist, at 8 P. M., in Carnegie 

 Museum, Pittsburg, President Holland in the chair. At roll- 

 call 1 8 members responded to their names. 



A motion of Henry Engel that the President appoint a com- 

 mittee to prepare a complete list of species of Lepidoptera 

 taken in Western Pennsylvania was adopted. The President 

 appointed H. Engel, H. D. Merrick, George Ehrman, George 

 Krautwurm and F. A. Merrick. The committee requested that 

 each member of the Society prepare a list of species taken by 

 him, to be handed in at our December meeting. Mr. Hugo 

 Kahl was elected a member of the Society. 



