PROCEEDINGS. 



JANUARY 3, 1901. 



The iS7th regular meeting was held at the residence of Mr. E. 

 A. Schwarz, 230 New Jersey avenue N.W. The President, Dr. 

 Gill, occupied the chair. The following members were also 

 present: Messrs. Johnson, Schwarz, Benton, Morris, Kotinsky, 

 Busck, Heidemann, Vaughan, Caudell, Ashmead, Swingle, Cur- 

 rie, Karlsioe, Kuehling, and Hopkins ; also, Messrs. Gould and 

 Barber, visitors. 



Officers for the year 1901 were then elected, as follows: Pres 

 ident, Dr. H. G. Dyar; First Vice-President, Mr. W. G. John 

 son, Second Vice-President, Mr. E. A. Schwarz ; Recording Sec 

 retary, Mr. Rolla P. Currie ; Corresponding Secretary, Mr. 

 Frank Benton ; Treasurer, Mr. J. D. Patten. Additional mem 

 bers of the Executive Committee : Dr. L. O. Howard, Dr. T. N. 

 Gill, and Mr. C. L. Marlatt Dr. Dyar was elected as Vice- 

 President of the Washington Academy of Sciences for the Ento 

 mological Society. 



Prof. Trevor Kincaid, of the University of Washington, Seattle, 

 Washington, and Prof. E. D. Ball, of the Agricultural Experi 

 ment Station, Fort Collins, Colorado, were elected correspond 

 ing members of the Society, and Prof. H. P. Gould, the newly 

 appointed Entomologist of the Maryland Experiment Station, and 

 Mr. Herbert S. Barber, active members. 



Under the head of Short Notes and Exhibition of Specimens, 

 Mr. Caudell showed fifteen larvae of the Chestnut Weevil {Balani- 

 nus rectus Say), all taken from one chestnut. Mr. Johnson said 

 that he had taken six or eight larvas of this species from a single 

 chestnut of the lt paragon " variety. Mr. Ashmead asked whether 

 this was the same species of weevil as that which attacks the 

 chinkapin. Mr. Schwarz stated that it was not, and said that the 

 acorn species could at once be distinguished from the chestnut 

 species by the difference in the length of the beak. It was inter- 



