ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 



PHILADELPHIA, PA., FEBRUARY, 1918. 



Entomology at the Convocation Week Meetings. 



As announced in the NEWS for December last (page 469), 

 we shall not print a list of the papers bearing on entomology 

 presented at the meetings of various societies at Pittsburgh 

 and at Minneapolis, between December 27, 1917, and January 

 2, 1918. In spite of the special conditions induced by the 

 war and the extremely cold weather upon railroad trans- 

 portation, and of the deterrent letter of the President of the 

 American Association for the Advancement of Science (pub- 

 lished in Science for December 28 and elsewhere), the attend- 

 ance seems to have been fair. We are informed that 50 to 

 60 persons were present at the meetings of the Entomological 

 Society, 25 to 50 at those of the Ecological Society, and 20 

 to 200 at those of the Naturalists. The total number of papers 

 of entomological bearing listed on the printed programs, with 

 some additions of which we have been informed, was, at 

 Pittsburgh, 96, or, if we add those forming parts of the 

 Paleontological Society's symposium on "Problems in History 

 of Faunal and Floral Relationships in the Antillean-Isthmian 

 Region and their Bearing on Biologic Relationships of North 

 and South America" (8 titles) and those constituting the 

 Naturalists' symposium on "Factors of Organic Evolution" 

 (6 titles), no, and o at the Zoologists' meeting at Minneap- 

 olis a grand total of 119, in comparison with 139 at New 

 York in the preceding year (see the NEWS for February, 1917, 

 page 88). 



The above-quoted total of 96 was made up of 24 papers 

 from the program of the Entomological Society of America, 

 48 from that of the American Association of Economic Ento- 

 mologists with 7 from its Apicultural and 4 from its Horti- 

 cultural Inspection Sections. 3 from the Ecological Society of 

 America, I from the American Phytopathological Society, 



