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PHILADELPHIA, PA., OCTOBER, 1907. 



The Seventh International Zoological Congress held in Bos- 

 ton, Massachusetts, from the iQth to the 24th of August is 

 now a matter of history. We were gratified to see the number 

 of papers presented on the various branches of entomology, 

 about twenty-five. This is a very creditable showing for this 

 branch of Zoology. The abundance of insects, both as to 

 species and individuals, and their vast economic importance 

 is going to create an immense interest and rapid growth of 

 the study. Many entomologists were in Boston during the 

 Congress and they comprised about one-fifth the entire at- 

 tendance. The meeting of The Entomological Society of 

 America was a factor in this, but nevertheless it shows the 

 present interest and we predict that -the time is rapidly coming 

 when entomology will leave far behind some of the studies 

 in Zoology that at present have comparatively many devotees. 

 In the future an entomologist will be looked upon with more 

 respect and only the illiterate will speak of bugs and bugology. 



It is with interest that I note Mr. Brehme's remarks on Thecla damon 

 and his proposed name for the black variety patersonia. Some less 

 local name might have been chosen. I have taken this dark form 

 here in Montgomery County, Virginia, in late July, and I have taken 

 it in early April, on the sea-coast islands at Charleston, South Caro- 

 lina. I have, at present, two specimens in my collection, a South 

 Carolina c? and a Virginia $; both are evenly dark colored above, 

 a dead wood-black; below, the green is less vivid than in the normal 

 form, being more bronzy in tone. The Virginia specimen is very 

 large. ELLISON A. SMYTH, JR., Blacksburg, Va. 



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