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he had been recording the Hymenoptera of the District of Colum 

 bia and that he hoped with the assistance of Mr. Marlatt in the 

 saw-flies and Mr. Pergande in the ants to soon be in position to 

 give a complete list in this order. He further stated that Mr. 

 Heidemann was nearly prepared to print a list of Heteroptera. 



The following preamble and resolution were then introduced 

 and unanimously carried : 



WHEREAS, the Entomological Society of Washington has learned with 

 great pleasure of the completion of the manuscript list of the Coleoptera 

 of the District of Columbia, by Henry Ulke, 



Resolved, That the Society hereby respectfully recommends to the 

 Smithsonian Institution that this paper be published as soon as conven 

 ient as a first paper of a List of the Insect Fauna of the District of Colum 

 bia, remaining numbers to be prepared by the members of the Society. 



The following new members were elected : Dr. W. J. Karl- 

 sioe, New York City (temporary address 821 Seventh St., Wash 

 ington, D. C.), and Dr. E. G. Love, So East 55th Street, New 

 York City. 



The President appointed as a Publication Committee for the 

 year 1896, Messrs. Howard, Gill, Schwarz, Ashmead, and 

 Chitteriden. 



Under the head of short notes and exhibition of specimens 

 Mr. Ashmead submitted a specimen of a new species of the genus 

 Roctronia of Provancher. This insect when originally described 

 by Provancher was placed by him in the Braconidas. Later he 

 decided that it was a Proctotrypicl near Helorus. Mr. Ashmead 

 recognized the specimen shown in a collection of Braconidas 

 received from the American Entomological Society. The spec 

 imen was a male and was from Southern California. Mr. 

 Ashmead from this specimen decided that Provancher was right 

 in considering the insect a Proctotrypid of the subfamily Helorinae. 

 He will describe it as Roctronia calif or nica. 



Mr. Schwarz submitted two short notes for insertion in the 

 Proceedings ; the first one recorded the fact that Cresson in his 

 Hymenoptera Texana mentions the fact that Belfrage states that 

 Scolia lecontei rests during the night and chilly weather in clus 

 ters closely attached to the stems of grass and plants. The 

 other note recorded the fact that the Empid mentioned on page 



