Jan., '92] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 29 



in front of his residence in Brooklyn, and which emerged 

 about September 15th last. On both the upper and under sides 

 of the wings there appeared a deep border of sagittate or sub- 

 guadrate indentations caused by the invasion of the interior by 

 the white marginal lunules to such an extent as to entirely or 

 nearly comprehend the submarginal white spots, with more or 

 less diffusion, particularly at the apex. Mr. Wasmuth stated 

 that there was nothing in the appearance of the larva nor its 

 subsequent treatment, so far as he was aware, to cause the 

 deviation. It bears the same relation to philenor that calver- 

 leyi does to asterias. Mr. Wasmuth also exhibited a nearly 

 full-grown larva of P. asterias which he had taken during the 

 present month feeding on parsley, and which, favored by the 

 absence of snow, had survived the frosts. 



Mr. Franck exhibited some light and dark forms, with in- 

 tergrades of Halisidota ciiidipes and edwardsii from Vera Cruz, 

 Mexico, and Colorado, and claimed that these species should 

 be considered identical. 



January j, igoi. — Tweniy-six persons present. President 

 Smith in the chair. Prof. Frank F. Harding was elected a 

 member. 



Paper by Mr. E. L. Graef, on the history of the several 

 associations which had finally resulted in the organization of 

 the Brooklyn Entomological Society, together with some facts 

 relating to the efforts of the society to promote the purposes of 

 its organization. At first it was particularly difficult to obtain 

 identification of species in the Lepidoptera, because so many 

 were undescribed, and his friends and himself were several 

 times greatly disgusted on discovering that some of the ento- 

 mological wivSeacres to whom they applied for aid made a prac- 

 tice of manufacturing names ad libitum without regard to 

 existing nomenclature. 



Paper by Prof. Smith, upon the Development and Spread 

 ot Entomology in Recent Years, showing that this branch of 

 science has kept pace with the general progress which has 

 made the nineteenth century unparalleled in history. This 

 was particularly in the growth and general diffusion of ento- 

 mological learning and literature, the improvement in system- 



