278 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Julv, '18 



Doings of Societies. 



Entomological Section of The Academy of Natural Sciences of 



Philadelphia. 



Meeting of March 28, 1918. Yice Director R. C. Williams. Jr., pre- 

 .siding. Eleven persons present. 



Orthoptera. — Mr. Rehn spoke on the distribution of some species 

 of the Acridid subfamily Eumastacinae in California. Arizona and 

 Xevada, making special reference to that of the short- and long-winged 

 forms. 



Odonata. — Dr. Calvert exhibited some Odonata frorp Pennsyl- 

 vania, collected by members of the State Zoologist's department at 

 Harrisburg, forw^arded by Mr. Daecke. They included Calopteryx 

 amata Hagen, one female from Charter Oak, Huntingdon County, 

 June 20, 1917, by H. B. Kirk; apparently the first record of this species 

 from Pennsylvania. From Charter Oak, were also specimens of 

 Tachopteryx thareyi, Ophiogomphus johannus, Cordulegaster obliquus, 

 and Helocordula uhleri, — all more eastern records in Pennsylvania for 

 these species than have been previously noted. 



After more or less extended discussions on the above subjects, the 

 meeting adjourned. — E. T. Cressox, Jr., Recorder. 



Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Meeting of the New York Entomo- 

 logical Society. 



A special meeting of the Xew York Entomological Society was 

 held on Friday evening, June 7th, at the Hotel Colonial, 81 st St. and 

 Columbus Ave., Xew York City, to celebrate the Twenty-fifth Anni- 

 versary of the incorporation meeting of June 7th, 1893. The pro- 

 gramme at 8.30 P. M. comprised the History of the Society; Remin- 

 iscences by Mrs. Annie Trumbull Slosson, Mr. Henry Bird and oth- 

 ers of the older members; and remarks by guests representing sister 

 societies, among whom were Dr. Henry Skinner and Mr. J.. A. G. 

 Rehn. of the American Entomological Society of Philadelphia. 



The Entomological Society of France. 

 At its meeting of December 26, 1917, the Society elected J. de 

 Joannis and J. Kiinckel d'Herculais honorary members to fill the 

 vacancies due to the deaths of A. Grouvelle and M. Standfuss. The 

 recommendations of the committee making the nominations, from 

 which these two members were selected by the Society, based the 

 claims of M. de Joannis to this honor on his systematic, synonymic, 

 geographical and biological work on Microlepidoptera, those of M. 

 Kiinckel d'Herculais on his fundamental memoir on Volucella, that 

 on Brehm's collection, on "the best treatise on general entomology in 

 the French language," and on numerous other works on taxonomy, 



