OF WASHINGTON. (\1 



Barber, Benton, Burke, Busck, Caudell, Currie, Gill, Heide- 

 mann, Hinds, Kotinsky, Morrill, Morris, Patten, Piper, Titus, 

 Warner and Webb, members, and Dr. J. R. Sheldon, visitor. 



Under miscellaneous business a vote was taken on the amendr 

 ments to Article VII of the Constitution, proposed by the 

 Executive Committee at the December meeting. The amend 

 ments were adopted and the Article as amended now reads as 

 follows : 



SECTION i . The initiation fee of active members shall be one 

 dollar ; the annual fee three dollars, payable at each annual 

 meeting after election. Any active member in arrears for one 

 year may, after one month's notification, be dropped from the 

 rolls. No member in arrears shall be entitled to vote. 



SECTION 2. Corresponding members shall pay no initiation 

 fee, but shall pay an annual fee of two dollars, payable at 

 election and at each annual meeting thereafter. Any corres 

 ponding member in arrears for one year may, after notification, 

 be dropped from' the rolls. 



SECTION 3. Members elected within three months previous to 

 an annual meeting shall not be required to pay an annual fee 

 for the year in which they are elected. 



Mr. Kotinsky exhibited an abnormal specimen of Culex 

 pipiens. It was received with a collection of Central American 

 mosquitoes. The abdomen of the specimen is much distended 

 but seems to contain nothing except the ovaries and the eggs. 

 Mr. Caudell stated that in Mr. Pergande's notes on mosquitoes 

 reared at the Department of Agriculture there are a number of 

 references to specimens with similarly inflated abdomen. Mr. 

 Kotinsky said that the condition of the abdomen of the mos 

 quito was much the same as that of the abdomen of house 

 flies that have become affected by fungus growth. Mr. Morris 

 said that while he was at Lansing, Michigan, summer before 

 last, he was invited by the entomologist there, Mr. R. H. Pettit, 

 to examine some fungus-affected mosquitoes. Mr. Pettit, Mr. 

 Morris said, is carrying on experiments in the inoculation of 

 mosquitoes with fungus diseases. 



Mr. Kotinsky reported the receipt from Prof. CarlF. Baker, 

 Claremont, California, of an undetermined insect gall which was 



