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ing place. Its eggs and first larval stage were unknown to him. 

 He said, further, that sollicitans would breed in water 25 per 

 cent, more salt than the sea itself. Contrary to Dr. Dyar's obser 

 vations, he had found C. pipiens breeding in almost all kinds of 

 watered places except cold springs. In large bodies of water, 

 agitated by the wind, mosquitoes did not breed except near shore 

 where the water was smooth, yet here he had found them com- 

 monlv. 



DECEMBER 5, 1901. 



The i64th regular meeting was held at the residence of Dr. C. 

 W. Stiles, 1718 (^street, N.W., President Dyar in the chair. 

 Theie were also present Messrs. Patton, Simpson, Barber, 

 Quaintance, Cauclell, Schwarz, Kotinsky, Gill, Howard, Busck, 

 Ashmead, Doolittle, Morris, Matthis, Benton, Currie, Stiles, and 

 Richardson, members, and Mr. Martin visitor. 



The annual election of officers being then in order, the present 

 officers were re-elected for the year 1902. The Society then 

 voted that the chair appoint a new publication committee, as has 

 been the custom for each new volume of the '"Proceedings." 

 Dr. Dyar then appointed Messrs. Currie, Schwarz, Howard, and 

 Ashmead to act with him on this committee. 



Under the heading Short Notes and Exhibition of Specimens, Mr. 

 Kotinsky exhibited a large series of the Reduviid bug Milyas cine- 

 tus Fabr., collected by him near Washington under the bark of 

 the plane tree Platanus on November 10. They were grouped 

 in large, compact clusters, the largest of these containing at least 

 twenty five specimens. Mr. Schwarz remarked that he had also 

 found this insect, as well as a species of Tingis and the beetle, 

 Xylophilus brunnipennis Lee., grouped in a similar manner 

 under the bark of this tree during the winter. 



Mr. Ashmead mentioned that Prof. Wheeler, in a recent 

 number of the "American Naturalist," recorded the fact that 

 workers in the genus Pheidole are parasitized by a worm belong 

 ing to the genus Mermis. This greatly increases the size of the 

 worker and causes it to bear some resemblance to the female. 

 Wheeler proposed the term Macroergates for this form of para 

 sitism. 



