June, '07] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 267 



teen persons were present. The annual reports were read. The 

 Society voted to donate its publications to the California Acad- 

 emy of Sciences, so far as they could he supplied. The follow- 

 ing were elected officers to serve for the ensuing year : Presi- 

 dent, Philip P. Calvert ; Vice-President, H. W. Wenzel ; Treas- 

 urer, E. T. Cresson ; Recording Secretary, Henry Skinner ; Cor- 

 responding Secretary, J. H. Ridings; Curator, Henry Skinner. 

 Publication Committee E. T. Cresson, C. F. Seiss, B. H. 

 Smith. 



HENRY SKINNER, Secretary. 



A meeting of the American Entomological Society was held 

 February 28, 1907. Dr. Philip P. Calvert, President, in the 

 chair. Fourteen members were present. An invitation was 

 read asking the Society to appoint delegates to the Seventh In- 

 ternational Zoological Congress, to be held in Boston. The 

 President was authorized to appoint one or more delegates. 



Mr. Wenzel exhibited specimens of Cartodere costulata and 

 Adistemia watsoni, taken in boxes of mouldy and discarded 

 entomological specimens in the entomological rooms of the 

 Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. He gave the 

 distribution of the species in accordance with Mr. Fall's paper 

 on the Latridiidae. 



Dr. Skinner exhibited a series of Megathyinus newnoegeni 

 showing great variation. 



Mr. Rehn said we must recognize two kinds of variation, 

 individual and geographical, and spoke of these characters as 

 exhibited in the Orthoptera. 



Dr. Calvert verbally reviewed Tower's work on Leptinotarsa. 



Mr. Haimbach exhibited a slide showing the neuration of 

 Crainbiis caliginoscllus. Mr. Rehn called attention to the 

 work by B. von Wattenwyl and Redtenbacher on the Phasmidae. 

 The senior author is eighty-three years old, and says that this 

 is his last work. About seventy per cent, of the species listed 

 are new. The general scope of the work and the new classifica- 

 tion were mentioned. 



Dr. Calvert exhibited specimens of the Australian cockroach, 

 Periplaneta australasiae, taken in the Biological Hall, University 



