PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



OF WASHINGTON. 

 VOL. VIII. SEPTEMBER-DECEMBER, 1906. Nos. 3-4. 



FEBRUARY 10, 1906. 



The 2O2cl regular meeting was held at the residence of Dr. 

 P. R. Uhler, 254 West Hoffman street, Baltimore, Md. Presi 

 dent Banks occupied the chair and there were present Messrs. 

 Ashmead, Banks, Barber, Bishopp, Burke, Caudell, Gill, Heide- 

 mann, Hooker, Hopkins, Howard, Knab, Merrill, Pierce, 

 Sanborn, Sanders, Sasscer, Schwarz, Stiles, Titus, Uhler, and 

 Webb, members, and Messrs, demons and Weidheimer, 

 visitors. 



Doctor Howard read a letter from M. Rene Oberthiir, 

 Rennes, France, who was cooperating in the efforts to introduce 

 into the United States parasites of the gipsy and brown-tail 

 moths, in which the latter stated that he had forwarded quite 

 a number of brown-tail moth nests to this country ; in this 

 connection Doctor Howard read an account, published in a 

 newspaper of that region, of the collecting of brown-tail moths' 

 nests, in which several amusing explanations were hazarded 

 as to the purpose of this work. 



Doctor Howard read also a letter from Mr. A. H. Kirk- 

 land, superintendent for suppressing the gipsy and brown-tail 

 moths in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in which Mr. 

 Kirkland quoted Mr. F. H. Mosher as stating that he had 

 observed adult staphylinid beetles catching living flies. Mr. 

 Mosher's note is as follows : 



During the season of 1902 I had the opportunity to observe the feed 

 ing habits of Staphylinus maculosus Grav. Previous to this date I had 

 frequently observed these beetles in the locations where they are com 

 monly found, and had supposed that they were feeding upon the material 



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