30 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Jan , '9^ 



atic investigation and the establishment of experiment stations. 

 The demand for skilled entomologists was for a time greater 

 than the supply, and the enormous increase in the number of 

 well-identified and more or less extensive collections both 

 public and private made the work of professional and amateur 

 much easier. 



February 7, igoi. — Twenty persons present. President 

 Smith in the chair. Messrs. W. D, Kearfoot and F. E. Wat- 

 son were elected members. 



Letter from Prof. F. G. Schaupp, a former member of the 

 society, relating the collecting experiences of his boyhood days 

 in Germany, and the nomenclature adopted by himself and his 

 companions to distinguish some of the familiar forms. 



Paper by Mr. Geo. Franck upon collecting Catocala and 

 and Argynnis diayia at Evansville, S. Ind. Despite a brief but 

 violent storm which ditched his horse and wagon, scattering 

 his implements and thoroughly drenching him, he captured 

 in a piece of virgin forest, in a few hours, hundreds of speci- 

 mens of Catocala embracing 38 species, many of them rare, 

 with fine variations. Near the same locality, on the following 

 day, he took 20 $ Argynnis diaiia. They were readily taken, 

 being sluggish in flight and not easily disturbed. 



Mr. Jacob Doll recalled his finding Catocala so numerous at 

 Bayonne, N. J., that in a short time he took 187 specimens, 5 

 of which were mannorata, and including in all 27 species. 

 Also a .similar instance in Arizona, where hundreds of speci- 

 mens clustered on sugar upon 5 or 6 trees, but including only 

 two species, vcrriliana and chelido?iia. In none of the instances 

 above related were any of the insects to be seen upon the fol- 

 lowing day, and in subsequent years they were found but 

 rarely in the.se localities. 



Dr. Meeske related his finding these insects fairly plentiful 

 in one piece of woods in Cypress Hills, L. I., upon one day, 

 their total absence the next, and his subsequent discovery of 

 them in a wood at some little di.stance. 



Mr. Weeks suggested that these disappearances might be 

 explained in one ca.se by the fact that the.se insects are strong 

 and rapid in flight, and probably migrate from place to place, 



