May, '03] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 165 



A regular meeting of the Entomological Section of the 

 Chicago Academy of Sciences, (Chicago Entomological Society) 

 was held in the John Crerar Library, Thursday evening, March 

 2oth, 1903. Seven members present. Mr. Healy occupied 

 the chair in the absence of the chairman. 



Mr. Higley, on behalf of the Academy, reported that the 

 By-laws of the Section had been passed upon at the last meet- 

 ing, and had been accepted without amendments, and placed 

 on record as By-laws of the Section. 



Mr. W. L,. Tower was scheduled for a talk on metamor- 

 phoses, but did not put in an appearance. Informal discus- 

 sion, therefore, took the place of the regular program. 



Mr. Higley described the interesting study and collecting 

 trips which the Academy members had taken in previous 

 years, and spoke of the prospects of similar excursions for the 

 coming season. Several members of the section expressed a 

 desire to participate. As is usual in the early spring meet- 

 ings, many of the members had accounts to relate of the ap- 

 pearance of forerunners of the coming season. 



The subject of a field day for the Section was broached, but 

 no decision reached because of the early date. 



JOHN COMSTOCK, Recorder. 



The seventh regular quarterly meeting of the Pacific Coast 

 Entomological Society was held on the evening of February 

 28th, at the residence of Mr. J. C. Huguenin, 1840 Fifteenth 

 Street, San Francisco. 



President Fuchs in the chair. 



Twelve members responded to roll call. Six new members 

 were elected. Dr. E. C. Van Dyke, acting as President pro 

 tcmpore, Mr. Fuchs exhibited a box of native and exotic Plus- 

 iotis, with remarks upon their structural differences, life his- 

 tories and distribution. Mr. L,. E. Ricksecker recalled the 

 time when James Behrens brought the first specimen to Cali- 

 fornia from Arizona. 



Dr. E. C. Van Dyke exhibited a box of American Litcaind\ 

 with remarks upon the several genera, and other biological 

 facts of great interest relative to their life histories and distri- 



