198 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Octobcr, 



DEPARTMENT OF EGONOMIG ENTOMOLOGY. 



Edited by Prof. JOHN B. SMITH, ScD., New Brunswick, N. J. 



Papers for this department are solicited. They should be sent to the editor, Prof. John 

 B. Smith, Sc.D., New Brunswick, N.J. 



Ninth Annnal Meeting of the Association of Economic Entomologists.— 



Detroit, Mich., Aug. 12-13, i897- The Association met in Room 212, 

 Central High School Building, immediately following the adjournment of 

 Section F. Thirteen active members were present, together with many 

 visitors, prominent among the latter being Dr. C. A. Dohrn, Prof. E. B. 

 Poulton, Dr. C. P. Hart, Dr. C. S. Minot and Dr. C. W. Stiles. The 

 Association was called to order by the President, and in the absence of 

 Secretary Marlatt a secretary pro ^ent was chosen. The address of the 

 retiring president treated of "The Present and Future of Applied Eco- 

 nomic Entomology in the United States," and contained, among other 

 very interesting features, an admirable tribute to the value of the sys- 

 tematist and a somewhat caustic criticism of the " species maker," helpful 

 suggestions for the experiment station worker, and a very frank discussion 

 of the unfortunate results which attend the attempts sometimes made to 

 combine politics and science. 



The following were elected to active membership : G. B. King, Law- 

 rence, Mass.; Gerald McCarthy, Raleigh, N. C; E. P. Felt, Albany, N. 

 Y.; A. F. Burgess, Maiden, Mass.; W. B. Barrows, Agricultural College, 

 Michigan; R. H. Pettit, Agricultural College, Michigan; W. S. Blatchley, 

 Indianapolis, Ind. 



The following were elected foreign members : Claude Fuller, Richard 

 Helm, both of Perth, West Australia. These additions increase the num- 

 bers of this Association to ninety-three active and thirty-one foreign 

 members. 



Following the election of members, Dr. L. O. Howard presented "Ad- 

 ditional Notes on the Parasites of Orgyia leucostigma."' This paper gave 

 the results of the rearing of a large number of primary and secondary 

 parasites, and contained a general discussion of the different phases of 

 insect parasitisms. 



"Temperature Effects as affecting Received Ideas concerning the Hi- 

 bernation of Insects," by the same author, showed that a sudden alter- 

 nation between low and high temperatures was remarkably fatal to the 

 larvae of clothes moths, Buffalo carpet beetles, and other insects of allied 

 habits. 



An abstract of "Notes on Certain Species of Coleoptera that attack 

 Useful Plants," by F. H. Chittenden, was read by secretary pro tern. 

 These notes treated chiefly of the food-plants and habits of a certain 

 Chrysomelids. 



A letter from Miss E. A. Ormerod. called particular attention to the fact 



