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Mr. Simpson exhibited a collection made by Mr. Caudell of 

 miscellaneous insects caught on the sticky secretions of the moun 

 tain laurel (Ka/mia latifolia). He also showed specimens of 

 dead branches of apple trees that were once infested by codling 

 moth pupae, and which were made a point of attack by wood 

 peckers. 



JUNE 18, 1903. 



The 1 79th regular meeting was held at the residence of Dr. 

 C. W. Stiles, 1718 Q^ street N.W. Vice-President Banks in 

 the chair, and Messrs. Dodge, Gill, Heidemann, Kotinsky, Mar- 

 latt, Patten and Stiles, members, and Mr. Grayton Ransom, 

 visitor, also present. 



Mr. Grayton Ransom, of the Bureau of Animal Industry, 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture, was elected an active member 

 of the Society. 



Dr. Stiles moved that the congratulations of the Society be 

 telegraphed to Mr. Ash mead at Pittsburg, in view of the fact 

 that the doctorate was to be conferred upon him on that date by 

 the Western University of Pennsylvania. The motion was unani 

 mously carried, and Dr. Stiles was asked to word and send the 

 telegram. 



Mr. Schwarz exhibited a specimen of the Curculionid beetle 

 Hormo'ps abducens LeConte, which he collected at Plummer's 

 Island, Maryland, in May, and which is a new accession to the 

 fauna of the District. Only one specimen of this species was 

 previously recorded, found by Hubbard and Schwarz at Capron, 

 Fla. 



Dr. Gill asked Mr. Schwarz whether the larvae of Calandrid 

 beetles were used as food on the island of Cuba. Mr. Schwarz 

 replied that to his knowledge they were not so used in Cuba. 



Mr. Heidemann exhibited a male specimen of Aradus qtiad* 

 rilineatus Say, which he found in a decaying trunk. In his col 

 lection he had specimens from Canada and from Cleveland, Ohio, 

 and also one specimen coming from Georgia. He exhibited also 

 a specimen of Aradus robustus Uhler, which he had usually ob 

 tained by beating trees, but last week he found an old trunk of 



