IQO ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [April, 'l6 



pyrioidcs Scott {azalcae Horv.) which is firmly estabhshed in different 

 parts of New Jersey and which feeds on the foliage of hardy azaleas, 

 this species having been introduced from Japan; also Lcptoypha viuti- 

 ca Say which was taken in large numbers while feeding on the fringe 

 plant during the past summer at Hammonton, New Jersey. This spe- 

 cies is recorded as rare in Smith's list. 



Harry B. Weiss, Rec. Secretary. 



A New Entomological Club. 



Editor of Entomological Xczas: — I wish to call to your attention the 

 formation of the "Boston Entomological Club." Meetings are held on 

 the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month at 8 o'clock P. M. at 

 the home of Prof. William Reiff, 366 Arborway, Jamaica Plain, Massa- 

 chusetts. Although an entomological club we are especially interested 

 in the collection of Lepidoptera. Entomologists visiting Boston will be 

 welcomed at the Club meetings. At the annual meeting the following 

 v.ere elected officers for the coming year : Rudolph C. B. Bartsch, pres- 

 ident ; W. F. Eastman, vice president ; E. F. Knight, secretary' ; H. J. 

 Law, treasurer; Prof. William Reiff, superintendent of sales; Ernst 

 Grebner and Nathaniel Stowers, members at large. — E. F. Knight, 

 Secretary, 9 Fairfield St., North Cambridge, Mass. 



The New Ecological Society of America. 



A meeting of ecologists was held at. Hotel Hartman, Columbus, 

 Ohio. December 28, 1915, under the chairmanship of Prof. J. W. Harsh- 

 berger, for the purpose of considering the organization of an ecologi- 

 cal society. About fifty persons were present, nearly all of whom 

 were enthusiastically in favor of forming such a society. Over fifty 

 others who could not be present had notified the Secretary of their in- 

 terest in the movement. In view of these facts it was definitely voted 

 to organize under the name The Ecological Society of America. The 

 new society has an initial membership of more than one hundred bot- 

 anists and zoologists interested in ecology. The constitution adopted 

 declares that membership "shall consist of persons interested in ecol- 

 ogy," that an annual meeting and field meetings shall be held and fixes 

 the annual dues at $1.00. The officers chosen were President. Prof. V. 

 E. Shelford, University of Illinois; Vice-President, Prof. W. M. 

 Wheeler, Harvard University; Secretary-Treasurer, Dr. Forrest 

 Shreve, Desert Laboratory, Tucson, Arizona. 



The charter membership has been doubled since the Columbus meet- 

 ing, and there is every prospect for an active and influential organiza- 

 tion. The roster of names indicates that the collective interests of the 

 society will be of the broadest character, embracing every phase of the 

 relation of organisms to their environmental conditions. The Ecologi- 



