128 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [May, 



Doings of Societies. 



A Regular Stated Meeting of the Entomological Section of 

 THE Academy of Natural Sciences was held March 24th at the hall 

 S. W. cor. Nineteenth and Race Streets, Dr. Horn, director, presiding. 

 Meeting called to order at 8.20 p. m. Members present: Laurent, Ridings, 

 Blake and Skinner. Associates: Calvert, Fo.x and Nell. A letter was 

 read from Prof. C. H. Fernald, in which he stated that he had finished 

 studying the Pyralidae belonging to the American Entomological Society, 

 and had returned them correctly named. Prof. Fernald says: "It is a 

 valuable collection, and I have put a great deal of work on it so as to 

 have everything accurately named, and have written and put a label on 

 each individual specimen, so that no confusion nor doubt can arise about 

 any specimen. The collection contains about 1200 examples, and I added 

 a large number of species from my own collection which were not repre- 

 sented in the collection, and have followed the order and names in the 

 new catalogue. Where I felt certain an insect was a type I have so 

 marked it, but Grote and Robinson did not mark their types, so that there 

 may be types in the collection which I have not marked as such. The 

 fact is, a part of the types went to the New York Museum, and I fear may 

 have been destroyed, but I have no means of knowing what ones. I care- 

 fully compared these in your collection with the original description, and, 

 where I felt quite sure, marked them; anyway, I believe all their species 

 are represented by authentically named specimens, whether types or 

 otherwise." Mr. Calvert presented the fourth lot of European Odonata. 

 Mr. Laurent exhibited a large number of specimens of Coleoptera which 

 he had collected by sieving earth. Dr. Horn exhibited the type material 

 used in writing his paper on Eumolpini. This is the first time the group 

 has been treated in its entirety. They are a difficult lot for study, of more 

 recent geological time, being feeders on plants of the present period. 

 Nineteen genera were considered. Mr. Calvert stated that five years had 

 elapsed since his election as an associate of the Section, and it was ap- 

 propriate that he should make a statement of the growth and present 

 status of the Society's collection (Odonata) and his own. The Entomo- 

 logical Society's collection contains, at present, identified specimens of 

 Odonata representing in all 77 genera and 189 species. This total is made 

 up of 62 genera and 147 species from America, 21 genera and 37 species 

 fromi Europe, 3 genera and 3 species from New Zealand, 4 genera and 6 

 spec es from Japan (13 genera and 4 species being repeated in this sub- 

 division). According to present calculations, there are in America North 

 of Mexico 58 genera and 245 species. Of these 54 genera and 136 species 

 are represented in the Society's collection; of the remaining four genera, 

 two are represented by European species and one in his own collection, 

 leaving but one genus, Oxyagrion, represented in N. America by but one 

 species, O. rufulmn, from northern California, but even this locality is 

 considered to be very doubtful by the best authority. In the Society's 

 collection and his own collection together, there are represented 57 genera 

 and 164 species of the Odonat fauna of America North of Mexico, that is, 

 sixty-seven per cent, of all the species. The Odonata of the European 

 faunal district (i. e., geographical Europe, N. Africa, Asia Minor) includes 

 36 genera and 103 species. Of these the Society's collection has 21 genera 

 and 37 species. My own collection includes 31 genera and 77 species, 

 that is seventy-five per cent, of the species. Of the other five genera, 

 two are represented by species from other parts of the world leaving three 

 unrepresented. The Society's collection does not include any species 

 from the European fauna not represented in his own collection. Mr. 

 Chas. Liebeck and Mr. C. W. Johnson, were duly elected members of 

 the Section. Henry Skinner, Recorder. 



Entomological News for April, was mailed Marcli 31, 1892. 



