The 24th Annual Meting of the Southern Lepidopterists’ Society was held on September 21, 2002, in the Doyle Conner Auditorium of the FSCA, Division of Plant Industries, Gainesville, Florida. Attending the meeting were James K. Adams, Phyllis Baker (new member), Bob Belmont, Richard Boscoe, John and Laurel Calhoun, Tom Emmel, David Fine, Irving Finkelstein, Ron Gatrelle, Rick Gillmore, John Heppner, Tom Neal, J. Akers Pence, and Jeff Slotten.