PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 
OF WASHINGTON. 
VOL. VII. JANUARY, 1905. No. i. 
OCTOBER 6, 1904. 
The 1 89th regular meeting was held at the residence of Dr. 
Wm. H. Ashmead, 1807 Belmont avenue, N. W., Vice-Presi- 
dent Hopkins in the chair, and Messrs. Ashmead, Barber, Currie, 
Doolittle, Dyar, Gill, Hay, Heidemann, Morris, Patten, Schwarz, 
Stiles, Ulke, and Webster, members, and Messrs. Phillips, 
Strauss, and Charles B. Dyar, visitors, present. 
Dr. Gill, as a delegate from the Society to the International 
Geographic Congress held in Washington the month previous, 
made a brief report. 
Mr. Schwarz exhibited a pamphlet published in Havana, 
Cuba, by the " Institute de Segunda Ensenanza" and entitled: 
"Catalogo Numericodel Museo Zoologico Cubano (Museo Gund- 
lach). Habana, Cuba, 1895." The pamphlet comprises 112 
pages and is manifestly intended to serve as a guide to Gund- 
lach's "Fauna Cubana" as illustrated by the specimens in the 
Gundlach collection now preserved at the "Institute." At any 
rate the pamphlet seems to be entirely unknown to zoologists. 
While at Havana, Mr. Schwarz ascertained that this "Catalogo " 
is an exact reproduction of Dr. Gundlach's manuscript field- 
book, in which Gundlach entered each species found by him in 
Cuba, from mammals down to insects, without any systematic 
order; except that for each Order a separate set of numbers 
