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quite agreeing with this reference, I wrote to Prof. Riley, stating the facts 

 in the case. The mischief, if such it can be called, is first noticed in the 

 middle of May, two or three weeks before the signs of O. tripundata are 

 seen, and the girdling consists of a single ring instead of two, or if there 

 are two the lower one is very indistinct. Moreover, the tip of the twig 

 fades at once, and much more quickly than when attacked by O. tripimc- 

 tata. Lastly, the later attack of Oberea is in my garden confined to the 

 raspberry. I never find it on the red currant. 



I was requested to send some specimens about the end of July, and I 

 did so just before starting for this meeting. I received a reply a day or 

 two ago from Mr. Marlatt, in the absence of Dr. Riley, saying that the 

 insect was probably the Jatius flavivejitris of Fitch, found by Professor 

 Lintner recently at Adrian, Mich. It is a saw-fly of the family Cephidae, 

 whose early history has not been well worked out. 



Having little technical knowledge of the group, my only excuse for 

 troubling the Club with this note is a desire to aid others in a work which 

 I cannot, from the pressure of different engagements, now prosecute 

 myself as formerly. Moreover, I think such short notes are peculiarly 

 adapted for presentation to the Entomological Club. 



Mr. Lintner stated some experience in regard to this species. An 

 attacked twig dies down at the upper part above the cut. From a half 

 dozen twigs which had been marked at the time of the attack and cut and 

 sent to him the following spring, he had obtained but one specimen of the 

 Saw-fly, and this did not appear to agree with Fitch's description of 

 flaviventris. 



Mr. Smith remarked upon the difficulty of obtaining specimens of the 

 sexes of twig borers, unless the entomologist waf constantly in the field 

 and himself cut them out of the infested wood. 



Mr. Fletcher then read the following : — 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON AN ENTOMOLOGICAL 



CONGRESS IN 1893. 



Doubtless all agree that the meeting of this Club and that of the 

 Association of Economic Entomologists in 1893 may afford unrivalled 

 opportunities for us to meet and make the acquaintance of many foreign 

 entomologists ; that the occasion may afford excellent opportunities to 

 make known our own methods and to extend a knowledge of the nature 



