OF WASHINGTON. 485 



large, flat with projecting widened mouth. Body flat, the sides 

 scalloped, joint 2 large, but not wider than the head, 3 equal, 4 

 small, 5 to ii larger, 12 smaller, 13 long and narrow, tapering. 

 Translucent, faintly greenish, food green ; no marks ; head color 

 less, the jaws brown. 



Scardia sp. Many specimens at light. 



Eucatagma amyrisella Busck. The larva lives in a web on 

 Amyris floridana. I have given my notes on it with Mr. 

 Busck's original description. (Journ. N Y. Ent. Soc., VIII, 

 247, 1901.) 



Several other species of Tineids and one Geometrid were taken, 

 but not in good enough condition to work up. Twelve larvae, 

 not referred to in the preceding part of this article, were noted, 

 but not bred. - 



JUNE 14, 1900. 



The 1 53d regular meeting was held at the residence of Mr. 

 Frank Benton, 1801 Harewood ave., N. W. President Gill in 

 the chair, and Messrs. Caudell, Dyar, Ashmead, Morris, Vaughn, 

 Chapin, Hay, Howard, Waite, Patten, Pollard, Benton, Heide- 

 mann, Kotinsky, Cook, and Currie, active members, and Prof. 

 Trevor Kincaid, of Seattle, Wash., visitor, also present. 



Under the head of Short Notes arid Exhibition of Specimens, 

 Dr. Dyar showed a series of genitalia of Lepidoptera which had 

 been admirably displayed by the work of a museum pest, Silvanus. 

 Mr. Howard referred to a note which he had published in Psyche, 

 Vol. IV, p. 132, in which he described similar work done by 

 Trogoderma. Dr. Gill referred to the use of insects in preparing 

 skeletons of mammals, and Mr. Kincaid said that in Alaska the 

 work of Amphipod Crustacea was used in the same way. 



Mr. Caudell, apropos to Mr. Heidemann's statement that Cap- 

 sids very seldom puncture the skin of human beings, exhibited a 

 specimen of Plagiognathus obscurus Uhler, which had bitten 

 him on the wrist. 



Dr. Dyar showed the second volume of Hampson's catalogue 

 of the Lepidoptera Phalasnae, and referred to the fact that certain 

 Nolas in India retained, in the larval state, the successive cast 

 heads just as does the larva of Harrisimemna trisignata Walk, 

 of the United States fauna. He also referred to the great enlarg- 

 ment of the lobe of the hind wings in the Lithosiid genus Boenasa, 



