62 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Feb., '07 



No one has done more to advace our knowledge of Central American 

 insects than Mr. G. C. Champion, now of Horsell, Woking, England, 

 who has not only made large collections in all orders for the Biologia 

 Centrali Americana, but has also described important sections of the 

 Coleoptera and the Heteroptera in that work. The Editors of the News 

 therefore take much pleasure in presenting to our readers, on another 

 page of this issue, an itinerary of his travels, which Mr. Champion has 

 kindly prepared at our request. 



If You lack a number of Entomological News, dont wait four or five 

 years to ask for it as your chances of getting the number will be very 

 small. The demand for the News has been very great and back volumes 

 are rapidly exhausted. If you do not get your copy send a postal to the 

 News at once. 



I would like to see some more on Noctuidae within the News. Couldn't 

 you prevail on somebody to write some articles on the life histories of our 

 eastern Plusias especially the larval stages and food plants? 



— Edward D. Keith, Providence, R. I. 



Last October my father brought me nine specimens of Vanessa 

 j album from Norfolk Conn. He said he had seen a number of them 

 around the hotel, some of them tapping against the windows as if they 

 desired to winter there. 



Last summer there was found here a pecular looking caterpillar. It 

 was yellow with the oblique bands pink. It was evidently C. juglandis, 

 for when it changed to a chrysalis it was exactly like other C. juglandis 

 pupae. — Kate W. Strong, Setauket, Long Island, N. Y. 



The initial meeting of the Entomological Society of America was held 

 in the American Museum of Natural History at New York City, December 

 28, 1906. 



On the evening of December 28, Prof. Wm. M. Wheeler delivered be- 

 fore the society an illustrated lecture on "The Polymorphism of Insects." 

 Immediately after the lecture occurred the business meeting. Prof. J. H. 

 Comstock of Ithaca, N. Y. was elected chairman and E. S. G. Titus of 

 Washington, D. C. secretary of the meeting. The new society then 

 adopted a constitution and by-laws and elected officers and members of 

 the executive committe. 



The following are the officers: President, J. H. Comstock, Ithaca, N. Y. 

 1st Vice-President, James Fletcher, Ottawa, Can., 2nd Vice-President, 

 Henry Skinner, Philadelphia, Pa., Secretary-Treasurer, J. Chester 

 Bradley, Berkeley, Cal. 



The Executive Committee consists of the officers and the following fel- 

 lows : Wm. M. Wheeler, New York, N. Y., John B. Smith, New Bruns- 

 wick, N. J., Herbert Osborn, Columbus, O., C. J. S. Bethune, Guelph, 

 Ont., F. M. Webster, Washington, D. C. and Chas. W.Johnson, Boston, 

 Mass. 



Following the business meeting was a smoker at the Hotel Endicott 



