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scale in this comparatively new region had resulted in the attacks 

 of many native species upon cultivated crops. The specimens 

 shown had been sent him by Mr. W. W. Froggatt, the Ento 

 mologist of the Department of Agriculture of Sydney, New South 

 Wales, and included a number of species of great economic im 

 portance. He noted the curious habit of the apple root-borer 

 (Leptops hopei} in laying its eggs in the folded leaf of the apple 

 and newly hatched larvaa dropping to the ground and entering 

 the roots ; the damage done by the orange bug ( Oncoscelis sulci- 

 ventris}; the vine moth {Agarista glycina] and a number of other 

 species, showing, among other things, that the so-called climbing 

 cut-worm named by Mr. Froggatt Plusia vertiserrata, is appa 

 rently our North American Prodenia lineatella. In briefly dis 

 cussing this paper, Mr. Schwarz drew a comparison between the 

 large number of native species which, by a change of habit, have 

 attacked cultivated crops in Australia and the extremely small 

 number which have similarly changed their habits in our own 

 Northwest. He recalled no native species in Washington and 

 Oregon which have become crop pests. 



JANUARY 28, 1899. 



A special meeting of the Society was held January 28, 1899, * n 

 the office of the Entomologist of the U. S. Department of Agri 

 culture. The First Vice-President, Dr. Gill, in the chair, and 

 Messrs. Marlatt, Banks, Schwarz, Chittenden, Ashmead, Clifton, 

 Dyar, Heidemann, Cook, Coquillett, Currie, Benton, Pratt, Cau- 

 dell, Howard, and Chapin also present. The Secretary read the 

 following preamble and resolutions, which had been drawn up by 

 Messrs. Cook and Benton, and which were, on motion, unani 

 mously adopted : 



Whereas, The Etomological Society of Washington has 

 learned with profound sorrow of the death of its President, Mr. 

 Henry Guernsey Hubbard, be it, therefore, 



Resolved, That while we may not lament the release of our 

 friend and co-worker from pain and weakness, we yet deplore 

 the loss of one in whom we recognized the highest qualities of 



