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found to be infested by the ant Azteca bicolor Emery, by two 

 kinds of scale insects a Dactylopius (Pseudococcus) and a 

 Lecanium and by another creature which he was unable to 

 classify. Mr. Banks, who afterwards examined the latter, re 

 ports that it is a larva belonging to the dipterous family Platype- 

 zidaB, and looks very similar to the larva of the genus Callomyia. 



Mr. Caudell exhibited an original drawing of a Walking- 

 stick that has recently been found in Florida and which is an 

 addition to the fauna of the United States. The species is 

 ffoploptts evadne, described by Westwood from the West 

 Indies. The specimen from which the drawing was made was 

 taken on Loggerhead Key. He called attention to the fact that 

 the tubercles on the right side of the head are much larger than 

 on the left. He also stated that while the females have aborted 

 wings the wings of the male are well developed. 



Dr. Howard said that it was interesting to note that Mr. C. 

 Schaeffer, during his collecting trip to Brownsville, Texas, last 

 June and July, was unable to find a single specimen of the 

 Cotton-boll Weevil (Anthonomus grandis Boheman) . In view 

 of this, he asked Dr. Morrill, who had visited Brownsville in 

 the middle of last November, for a statement as to the preva 

 lence of the weevil in that locality. Dr. Morrill then stated 

 that in one field examined 75 to 80 per cent, of the cotton 

 squares showed work of Anthonomus, and, in another, one or 

 two bolls in every stalk showed that weevils had developed 

 from them. Dr. Morrill stated that the rainfall at Brownsville 

 for the past two years (1901 and 1902) has been less than two- 

 thirds of the normal rainfall for that length of time, and this 

 would explain why weevils have been less abundant than usual. 



Mr. Heidemann exhibited a small collection of Hemiptera, 

 recently received from Costa Rica, and called attention to a 

 number of the interesting species represented. 



Mr. Warner said that he had just been pinning a collection 

 of Peruvian insects and noted that they were very fragile. 

 He did not believe the specimens were insufficiently relaxed but 

 thought that their brittleness might be due to the high altitude or 

 the dry climate in which they were collected. Mr. Barber then 

 remarked that, in his opinion, the brittleness was due rather to 



