PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



OF WASHINGTON 

 VOL. VIII. MARCH-JUNE, 1906 Nos. 1-2. 



NOVEMBER 2, 1905. 



The 1 99th regular meeting was held at the residence of Dr. 

 Ch. Wardell Stiles, 1412 Hopkins street, N. W., with' the 

 president, Mr. Banks, in the chair. The following were pres 

 ent: Messrs. Ashmead, Banks, Barber, Burke, Busck, Caudell, 

 Dyar, Gill, Girault, Heidemann, Hopkins, Knab, Marlatt, 

 Morris, Patten, Quaintance, Schwarz, Scott, Stiles, Titus, 

 Ulke, Webb, and Webster, members, and Messrs. F. W. God- 

 ing, E. F. Phillips, and O. W. Barrett, visitors. 



Doctor Stiles presented an explanation of the system of card 

 catalogues in use in the laboratories of the U. S. Public Health 

 and Marine Hospital Service, illustrating his remarks with the 

 various types of cards used in the catalogues. Some general 

 discussion regarding the system and also regarding the com 

 pilation of a list of all described genera of the world was 

 participated in by members present. 



Doctor Ashmead spoke of a new and remarkable genus of 

 Chalcididae, parasitic on mantid eggs, that had been recently 

 received from Father Robert Brown, of Manila, P. I. He 

 noted the fact that so many groups that have no spines on the 

 thorax in our country are represented in the tropics by genera 

 provided with spines. 



Mr. Caudell exhibited specimens of the various species of 

 the true katydids (Cyrtophylli) from North America, com 

 prising, in his opinion, three genera and six species. He had ex 

 amined about 100 specimens and found many striking charac 

 ters separating the species. In answer to a query regarding the 



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