96 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [March, '02 



district and raised. He spoke upon their life habits and food 

 plants. 



The following officers were elected to serve for the year 1 902 : 

 President, Mr. Charles W. Johnson ; Vice President, Mr. 

 Charles Boerner ; Treasurer, Mr. H. W. Wenzel ; Secretary, 

 Mr. Wm. J. Fox. 



W. R. Reinick, Secretary. 



A meeting of the Entomological Section of the Academy of 

 Natural Sciences was held January 23d, with Mr. H. W. 

 Wenzel, Vice Director, presiding. Fifteen persons were pres- 

 ent, including Mr. Denton, of Massachusetts, and Dr. Van 

 Dyke, of California. Dr. Van Dyke said he noticed that the 

 entomologists of the East have not adopted any general plan 

 for their government in regard to types and co- types and nomen- 

 clature. He thought some movement toward an authorita- 

 tive method .should be arranged. He also spoke of the value 

 of exact data in use at the present time. The value of the 

 knowledge of distribution and biological studies was dwelt on. 

 Mr. Vierick said he thought the one-type method should be 

 adopted. Mr. Rehn stated that the Novitates Zoologicse at- 

 tempted to form a code with the term variety omitted. He 

 considered this term a rather plastic one. The speaker also 

 described the procedure of the American Ornithologists' Union 

 in regard to questions of nomenclature. Mr. Rehn exhibited 

 pictures of the barren plains of Ocean and Burlington Counties, 

 New Jersey. The.se plains cover an area of six thousand and 

 seven thou.sand acres respectively, divided by the Wading river. 

 They are covered by stunted pines and oakes. Fire may have 

 something to do with the curious conditions found. The dis- 

 tribution of the animals and plants of the region was mentioned. 

 Mr. Wenzel said that in certain districts in South Jersey this 

 coleopterological fauna was typically Southern in character. 

 Dr. Skinner exhibited .specimens of Lyacna ncurona and 

 chlorina recently descrilicd. Mr. Rehn read a report on the 

 Hymenoptera collected by Dr. vSkinner in New Mexico. There 

 were about forty species new to science. 



Hknry Skinnkr, Recorder. 



