288 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [June, 'o<) 



Doings of Societies. 



The Entomological Society of Western Pennsylvania held 

 its annual meeting- at the Carnegie Museum on the evening 

 of Monday, April 5. Officers were elected as follows : Presi- 

 dent, Dr. W. J. Holland ; Vice-President, Henry Engel ; 

 Secretary and Treasurer, F. W. Friday. 



The society formally tendered its thanks to Mr. Engel for 

 the preparation of the list of the Lepidoptera of the region, 

 which has recently been published, Mr. Engel having assumed 

 the greater portion of the work which had been entrusted to 

 a committee of which he was one of the members. 



Plans for the vigorous prosecution of the general work of 

 exploring the upper valley of the Ohio were considered. Mr. 

 Hugo Kahl reported that he has in hand and he will shortly 

 have ready for publication a preliminary list of the Diptera 

 of the region. 



The society inspected the new galleries and cabinets which 

 are in process of erection in the laboratory of entomology in 

 the Carnegie Museum, and which, when completed, will fur- 

 nish accommodation for over a million and a half of insects 

 properly labeled and displayed. The galleries are built of 

 steel ; the cabinets, w'hich are being made in the shops of the 

 Carnegie Museum, carry each one hundred and eighty 

 drawers on the first floor of the gallery and one hundred and 

 eighty drawers on the second floor. There are twenty of 

 these cabinets, and there will thus be seven thousand two hun- 

 dred drawers 18 inches wide, 24 inches deep, and 2 l /> inches 

 high, lined with cork and made as nearly as it is possible to 

 make such things dust and pest proof. 



Dr. Holland displayed a collection of Heterocera which had 

 just been received from Eastern P>olivia, from one of the 

 collectors of the Museum, numbering about two thousand 

 specimens. The extreme beauty and perfection of the speci- 

 mens was commented upon by the members of the society. 



F. W. FRIDAY, Secretary. 



