June, '03] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 2ll 



ent. The Recorder officiated in the absence of the chairman. 

 After the transaction of the regular business Mr. W. L. Tower 

 took the floor. The paper which was to have been read was one 

 on metamorphoses, but, as Mr. Tower had already published 

 his article on that subject, a paper on the development of color 

 pattern and pigmentation in insects took the place of it. 



The lecture proved very interesting and was an excellent 

 demonstration of the careful study which the speaker had 

 given his subject. Drawings prepared for publication were 

 shown in connection with the lecture. Mr. Tower presented 

 each member present with copies of two of his recent publica- 

 tions. Adjournment. John Comstock, Recorder. 



The regular monthly meeting of the Entomological Society 

 of Western Pennsylvania was held Saturday evening, May 2d, 

 at Carnegie Museum, Pittsburg, Pa., President W. J. Holland 

 presiding. Eleven members were present. Henry Engel, 

 Fred Marloff, Geo. and B. J. Krautworm and F. W. Friday 

 reported good and rare catches of moths this spring. Dr. W. 

 J. Holland exibited plates of his new moth book which he is 

 completing, and also the plates of Rothschild and Karl Jordan's 

 revised edition of the Sphingidce of the World, which is about to 

 be published. Both of these works will exceed anything that 

 has been published under this order of insects. Sphingidae and 

 Sesiidse of the U. S. are to be taken up next meeting night, 

 and members are requested to bring list of same taken in this 

 locality, and if they have any doubtful specimens to bring same 

 with them and have them identified. After some very interest- 

 ing remarks by Dr. W. J. Holland, meeting adjourned to meet 

 first Saturday in June. F. W. Friday, Secretary. 



A meeting of the American Entomological Society was held 

 May 23d. Dr. P. P. Calvert in the chair. Fourteen persons 

 present. Mr. C. R. Biederman visitor. Mr. Rehn called 

 attention to a parasite found in the abdominal cavity of a 

 grasshopper, Melanoplus femur- rubr urn. It was the larva of a 

 fly of the genus Sarcophaga. Dr. Calvert said many specimens 

 of the grasshopper had been dissected in class- work, but this 

 was the first instance of the parasite being found by him, and 



