OF WASHINGTON, VOLUME XVII, l:H5 3 



Air. Busck reported for the Committee appointed to draw up 

 resolutions in commemoration of Dr. Theodore Gill. 1 



Mr. W. H. White was elected to active membership. 



At the close of the program the following visitors were called 

 on for remarks: 



Mr. Edward R. Speyer, a Carnegie student, spoke of ento- 

 mological conditions in England. 



Mr. John N. Summers of the Gipsy Moth Laboratory, gave 

 a short account of his recent trip to Europe and of the condi- 

 tions present in the forests where the Gipsy moth occurs. 



The following papers were presented: 



Reply to Criticism by Aldrich, Presented at the 277th Aleeting.. 



Dr. C. H. T. Townsend 2 



A Destructive European Pine Moth, Evelria buoliana, Introduced into 



the United States August Busck 3 



NOTES ON SOME BEES FROM VIRGINIA. 



BY T. D. A. COCKERELL, Boulder, Colorado. 



Mr. S. A. Rohwer has forwarded the following flower records 

 referring to bees collected at Falls Church, Virginia. One of 

 the females is undescribed and is herewith characterized. 



VISITORS OF Helianttinx <innnus coronal it*. 



The following bees were taken collecting the pollen on the red 

 sunflowers: 



Halictus ligatus Say. det. Crawford. 



ttonibus pennsylvanicus (De Geer) Franklin del. Crawford. 



Honibns impatiens Cresson det. Crawford. 



Melissodes dentiventris Smith det. Cockerell. Mr. Rohwer noles 

 I hat this bee visits the sunflowers in the mornings; he never took 

 it in ihe afternoon. 



1 Published in these Proceedings, vol. xvi, no. 1. 



Withdrawn from publication. 



1 Withdrawn for publication elscwhcrr. 



