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has always interested me and many experiments could be carried on 

 in relation to them. Were the male angiilifcra deceived by the female 

 Promethca? If the attraction is so great, what happens to the hun- 

 dreds and perhaps thousands of specimens of these two in nature? 

 Are the males of promcthca attracted in the same way by the female 

 angutifera? What are hybrids between the two like? Are such hy- 

 brids fertile? It is sometimes difficult to differentiate the females of 

 the two. Perhaps it is foolish to speculate in regard to such matters 

 when it is possible to ascertain the truth by direct experiment and 

 observation. My only excuse is that this note may stimulate an inter- 

 est in the subject and when opportunity affords, breeding experi- 

 ments may be carried on. HENRY SKINNER. 



Annual Meeting, Entomological Society of America. 



The ninth annual meeting of the Entomological Society of America 

 will be held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Thursday and Friday, De- 

 cember 3ist, 1914, and January ist, 1915, in affiliation with the meetings 

 of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and 

 other Societies. Meetings will begin at 10 A. M. on Thursday. 



Blanks for abstracts of papers will be sent by the Secretary to the 

 members, and should be returned to him not later than December 

 1 5th, in order that the program may be included in the general pro- 

 gram of the A. A. A. S. Papers will be limited to 15 minutes in 

 delivery. 



The by-laws provide that there shall lie held at the annual meeting 

 a technical exhibit of entomological materials and methods. Photo- 

 graphs, drawings, specimens, novelties, apparatus, or other matter of 

 interest to entomologists will be heartily welcomed. This exhibit will 

 be open from December 28th to January 1st, under the charge of 

 Dr. Philip P. Calvert, Zoological Hall, University of Pennsylvania, 

 Philadelphia, Pa. 



The business meeting will be held Friday morning, January ist,* for 

 the reports of the executive committee, treasurer and auditing com- 

 mittee, the election of new members and of officers and the transaction 

 of all other business. 



The annual public address will be given on Wednerday evening, 

 December 30th, at 8 P. M., by Professor Stephen A. Forbes, of the 

 University of Illinois, State Entomologist of Illinois. His subject 

 will be, "The Ecological Foundations of Applied Entomology." Fol- 

 lowing this address, Dr. Henry Skinner, at the request of the Execu- 

 tive Committee, will present a history of the Society. At the con- 

 clusion, the entomologists of Philadelphia will tender a smoker to all 

 visiting entomologists. The addresses by Professor Forbes and I >r. 



*The Secretary-Treasurer writes that the date announced for the 

 business meeting on the notices which he sent out is incorrect; it 

 should be as given above. P. P. C. 



