PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



OF WASHINGTON. 



VOL. VI. APRIL, 1904. No. 2. 



JANUARY 14, 1904. 



The 1830! regular meeting was held at the residence of Dr. 

 L. O. Howard, 2026 Hillyer Place, N. W. Vice-President 

 Hopkins in the chair, and Messrs. Ashmead, Barber, Benton, 

 Burke, Busck, Caudell, Currie, Dyar, Fiske, Gill, Hinds, How 

 ard, Marlatt, Merrill, Morris, Patten, Quaintance, Scott, Titus, 

 Warner and Webb, members, and Messrs. A. Arsene Girault 

 and J. F. Strauss, visitors, present. 



Dr. Wm. II . Ashmead was re-elected to represent the Ento 

 mological Society in the Washington Academy of Sciences. 



Dr. Howard passed around for examination Volume II, the 

 concluding volume, of Newstead's Monograph of the British Coc- 

 cidie, recently issued by the Ray Society. He drew attention to 

 the fine quality of the illustrations, stating that in his opinion 

 they were the best illustrations of Coccidae that have yet been 

 published. The majority of the species treated are, he said, 

 cosmopolitan. Of thirty-six species treated in Volume I, prob 

 ably only three are indigenous to Great Britain. Of especial 

 interest are the descriptions of the cW in the genus Lecanium 

 and particularly of the cT of L. hesperidum which has not been 

 described before. Newstead describes the <$ of this species, in 

 the puparium only, from specimens sent him from Bath, Eng 

 land. Mr. Albert Koebele, in his correspondence with the De- 



