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most likely to be made. Such investigations give much to do 

 but while we are engaged in supplying the immediate demands 

 we should give heed to the inevitable future demands for com- 

 plete information about the numerous insects fulfilling the re- 

 quirements of blood sucking, domesticity or otherwise for the 

 transmission or dissemination of disease. It is only by such 

 means that we can meet the demands that will be made on ento- 

 mology and give the science the place it deserves in relation to 

 the welfare of man. 



Two HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-THIRD MEETING, 

 FEBRUARY 4, 1915. 



The 283d regular meeting of the Society was entertained by 

 Mr. C. L. Marlatt at the Ssengerbund Hall, February 4, 1915. 

 There were present: Messrs. Baker, Barber, Bishopp, Boving, 

 Busck, Caudell, Champion, Cory, Craighead, Crawford, Cush- 

 man, DeGryse, Fink, Fisher, Gahan, Gill, Greene, Howard, 

 Hutchinson, Hyslop, Isely, Knab, Kotinsky, Mclndoo, McGregor, 

 Marlatt, Middleton, Ransom, Rohwer, Rust, Sanford, Sasscer, 

 Schwarz, Shannon, Siegler, Simanton, Snyder, Stiles, Townsend, 

 Turner and Walton, members, and A. G. Ackerman, W. M. David- 

 son, R. J. Fiske, G. L. Garrison, E. W. Geyer, A. C. Johnson, 

 W. V. King, F. L. McDonough, H. L. Nichols, H. K. Plank, 

 and J. F. Turner, visitors. 



Messrs. L. 0. Jackson and D. E. Fink were elected to active 

 membership. 



The following papers were presented: 



On the Reflex Bleeding of the Coccinellid Beetle, Epilachna borealis 



Dr. N. E. Mclndoo. 1 

 An Asiatic Insect Pest in America via Europe August Busck. 1 



Withdrawn from publication. 



