December, ’24] 
CONNECTICUT ENTOMOLOGICAL MEETING 
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COMMITTEE ON GENERAL ENTOMOLOGICAL TERMS 
At the Cincinnati meeting the Entomological Society of America appointed a 
standing committee “to recommend for adoption by the Society a preferred usage 
respecting such general terms as appear to be current in conflicting and confusing 
forms.” It will probably be agreed that we ought to have some uniformity in regard 
to the usage of such terms as brood, generation, larva, nymph, incomplete, gradual or 
simple metamorphosis, correct singular and plural forms of exuviae and a host of 
others that are continuously used in conflicting or confusing ways. It is believed that 
a good purpose would be served by a full discussion of these terms, and if possible, 
an agreement by all members of the society to follow some one usage for certain ones 
of them. All who are interested are urged to transmit their suggestions at once to 
one of the members of the following committee: E. M. Walker, Chairman, University 
of Toronto, Ontario, G. C. Crampton, W. M. Wheeler, A. L. Melander, and A. L. 
Quaintance. 
MEETING OF CONNECTICUT ENTOMOLOGISTS 
The first conference or meeting of the entomological workers of Connecticut was 
held at the Agricultural Experiment Station, October 31, beginning at 10:00 o’clock 
A. M. Invitations were extended to all official entomologists, those teaching the 
subject in educational institutions, field foremen of State and Federal forces working 
within the State, amateur entomologists, graduate students, and official entomologists 
in adjoining states. About 58 attended this meeting, which was called to order by 
Dr. W. E. Britton, State Entomologist of Connecticut, who explained the purpose of 
the meeting and the program presented. He then called for the election of a Chairman. 
Dr. Britton was elected, and introduced Professor W. L. Slate, Jr., Director of the 
Station, who welcomed the visitors and assured them that the Station stands for 
service. Dr. Britton then gave a brief account of the entomological work of the 
Station. The office of State Entomologist was established by legislative enactment 
in 1901, on account of the menace of the San Jose scale, and was charged with the in¬ 
spection of nurseries, of which there were only 25 in the State: last year there were 
106. Later the control of the gipsy and brown-tail moths and the inspection of 
apiaries were placed in charge of the State Entomologist. In 1909, gipsy moth eggs 
and winter nests of the brown-tail moth were brought into the United States on 
nursery stock, so since then all imported nursery stock brought into Connecticut has 
been inspected. Though control work has always been an important part of the 
Department’s activities, some research has always been conducted. Some of the 
best things accomplished are life history studies of the greenhouse white fly, maple 
leaf stem sawfly, peach sawfly, leopard moth, imported pine sawfly, walnut weevil, 
bulb mite, European red mite, spittle insects, apple and thorn skeletonizer and 
Asiatic beetle. Most of this work has been published in a series of 23 reports, con¬ 
taining more than 2,000 pages, and included in the annual reports of the Station. 
Some 33 bulletins containing over 600 pages have also been published, besides spray 
calendars and other papers in co-operation with other Departments of the Station. 
In addition to these publications, the Department has had charge of the preparation 
of the manuscript of four bulletins of the State Geological and Natural History 
Survey, totaling 2,200 pages, and the manuscript of a fifth is now ready for publi¬ 
cation. The Department Library now contains more than 1,000 bound volumes, and 
more than 3,500 unbound bulletins and separates. The State insect collection con- 
