28B " THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



A. A. A. S. 



ENTOMOLOGY IN SECTION " F," BUFFALO MEETING. 



The interest in Entomology at the Bufifalo meeting of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science was fully up to the standard 

 of former years. Two days preceding the date of meeting — Friday and 

 Saturday, August 21st and 22nd — were fully occupied in the reading 

 and discussion of papers by the Association of Economic Entomologists. 

 The entomological papers assigned to Section " F " were arranged to be 

 read the first day of papers (Tuesday), and nearly the whole day was 

 thus oocupied. The following entomologists were present at the sessions 

 of the Section : L. O. Howard, C. L. Marlatt, F. M. Webster, J. A. 

 Lintner, Jno. B. Smith, A. D. Hopkins, E. P. VanDuzee, C. W. Hargitt, 

 Jas. G. Needham, Agnes M. Claypole, and D. S. Kellicott. 



The papers read are briefly summarized below : — 



1. Dr. L. O. Howard, United States Entomologist, read a paper on 

 the entomological results of the exploration of the British West Indies by 

 the British Association for the Advancement of Science, detailing the 

 steps by which this important investigation had been brought about and 

 summarizing the results of the different papers which have been published 

 since the beginning of the investigation. He eulogized the British 

 Committee for its conception of the work and the liberality with which it 

 has been carried on, showed the importance of the results so far achieved, 

 and made a plea for the association of entomologists with scientific 

 expeditions in this country, and for the close collecting of insects, which 

 has apparently been heretofore considered as of less importance than the 

 collection of higher animals and plants. 



Afcer discussion by Dr. Theodore Gill, in which he pointed out that 

 the West Indies were not islands in a faunal sense, but parts of South 

 America, etc., simply separated by narrow channels of water, the same 

 author read the second paper. 



2. " A Case of Excessive Parasitism." — He described in some detail 

 the facts concerning the rearing of one hundred and twenty-seven speci- 

 mens of six species and five genera of Chalcididaj from the Lecanium 

 scales on a twig of arbor vitje received from Ottawa, Can. 



3. " On Life Zones in West Virginia." — A. D. Hopkins detailed the 

 work in mapping the life zones in the mountains of West Virginia. The 

 paper was discussed at length by Dr. Smith, Dr. Lintner, and Dr- 

 Howard. It was elicited that very much careful work in the line of the 



