April, '02] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 1 27 



Brighton, Pa.; B. A. Overbeck, Allegheny, Pa.; Geo. N. Pohl, 

 Newcastle, Pa.; J. Reitlechner, Allegheny, Pa.; Rev. Jerome 

 Schmitt, Beatty, Pa.; Herbert H. Smith, Pittsburgh; Mrs. 

 Herbert H. Smith. Pittsburgh ; Frederick Somers, Allegheny, 

 Pa.; E. J. Voegtly, Pittsburgh ; V. J. Zarobsky, Wilmerding, 

 Pa. 



After the transaction of business the President of the Society 

 placed on exhibition for the members who were present the 

 collection of Cicindelidse contained in the Ulke collection, 

 some thirty species of the Genus Morpho, including a remark- 

 ably fine pair of Morpho hecuba, and a large series of specimens 

 representing various species of the Genus Troides, (Ornithop- 

 tera aucf.) and its allies, among them Schoeiibergia paradisea 

 and tithomis. 



The next meeting will be held on the evening of April 5, at 

 which a large attendance of the knights of the nets and cyanide 

 bottle is expected. 



At the February meeting of the Feldman Collecting Social, 

 held at the residence of Mr. H. W. Wenzel, 1523 S. 13th Street, 

 eleven persons were present. 



The President read his deferred annual address for 1901. 



Prof. Smith referred to the fact that it was not known where 

 the various stages of Culex sollicitans pass the winter. Referring 

 to Leucania unipundata, the lackof variation and non-tendenc}' 

 to form new types were dwelt on. On the contrary, the wheat 

 head army worm, L. albilmea, also widely distributed from 

 Canada to Mexico, had been confused with a suppo.sed variety 

 which is really a distinct species. Among other supposed va- 

 rietal forms he had discovered no less than four distinct species 

 having good structural characters in the genitalia. The di- 

 vergence from the type of these varieties was dwelt on, and the 

 speaker did not believe the different varieties would interbreed 

 if the two sexes of the same form existed. These forms are local, 

 and in time would no doubt become distinct species. 



The peculiarities of local forms of Cicindela and Cychrus were 

 dwelt on by Messrs. H. Wenzel and Harbeck. 



Mr. Wenzel referred to the confusion in the synonymy of 



