PROCEEDINGS 



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OF THE 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



OF WASHINGTON 

 VOL. XVII 1915 No. 3 



Two HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-FOURTH MEETING, 

 MARCH 4, 1915. 



The 284th regular meeting of the Society was entertained by 

 the married members at the Saengerbund Hall, March 4, 1915.. 

 There were present Messrs. Abbott, Baker, Barber, Cory, Craw- 

 ford, Cushman, DeGryse, Ely, Gahan, Gill, Greene, Heinrich, 

 Hunter, Hutchinson, Isely, Jackson, Knab, Kotinsky, Mclndoo, 

 Micldleton, Popenoe, Quaintance, Rohwer, Rust, Sasscer, Schwarz, 

 Shannon, Snyder, Townsend, Turner, Walton, Webb and Wood, 

 members, and Messrs. J. M. Aldrich, F. W. Dry, Jacob Gold- 

 berg, H. G. Ingerson, A. C. Johnson and H. K. Plank, visitors. 



Mr. E. L. Divens was elected a Corresponding Member. 



The following papers were presented : 



THE BERMUDA GRASS ODONASPIS. 



BY JACOB KOTINSKY, 

 Branch of Forest Insect*, Bureau of Entomology. 



Shortly after arrival in Honolulu in 1904 I discovered this 

 insect more or less heavily infesting Bermuda grass (Cynodon 

 dactylori) or "Manienie," as it is called there. Its habitat is 

 mostly underground but invariably on the stem, never on roots. 

 Once discovered, it is quite conspicuous by its beautiful, chalky 

 whiteness, and oyster shape. It is always lodged under the scale- 

 like bracts at the node. 



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