PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



OF WASHINGTON. 



VOL. VI. OCTOBER, 1904. No. 4. 



JUNE 2, 1904. 



The iSSth regular meeting was held at the Saengerbimd Hall, 

 314 C street, N.W. In the absence .of the President and both 

 Vice-Presidents, Dr. Ashmead was called to the chair. Present : 

 Messrs. Benton, Currie, Knab, Kotinsky, Patten and Ulke. 



It was moved and seconded that two delegates be appointed to 

 represent the Society at the International Geographic Congress 

 to convene in Washington in .September.* 



Mr. C. L. Pollard was transferred from the jiist of active mem 

 bers to that of corresponding members, to date from January i, 

 1904. 



Mr. Knab, for Mr. Caudell, exhibited four specimens, two 

 cTc? and two 9 ? , of the grasshopper Rhadinotatum brevipenne 

 Thomas, showing ,the color variation to which this species is 

 subject. The specimens were collected at Macon, Georgia, by 

 Mr. Kotinsky. One of the 9 $ js wholly brown, the other has 

 the posterior femora and the sides of the elytia, prothorax and 

 head green, while both <$$ are grass-green on the dorsal sur 

 face of the head, prothorax and elytra. The species has not 

 before been recorded outside of Florida, although mentioned in 

 Thomas' paper on " Insects Collected West of the ipoth Meri- 



* Dr. Theo. Gill and Mr. Frank Benton were subsequently appointed 

 by the President. 



