190 PROCEEDINGS ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



Two HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-EIGHTH MEETING, 

 OCTOBER 7, 1915. 



The 288th regular meeting of the Society was entertained by 

 Mr. E. A. Schwarz at the Saengerbund Hall, October 7, 1915. 

 There were present Messrs. Barber, Burgess, Caudell, Crawford, 

 Ely, Gahan, Greene, Heinrich, Howard, Knab, Kotinsky, Mar- 

 latt, Middleton, Pierce, Quaintance, Rohwer, Sanford, Sasscer, 

 Schwarz, Shannon, Turner, and Walton, members and Max 

 Kisliuk, visitor. 



The Corresponding Secretary presented a communication in- 

 viting the Society to send a delegate to participate in the deliber- 

 ations of the Second Pan-American Scientific Congress to be held 

 in Washington, D. C., December 27, 1915, to January 8, 1916. 

 The Society named as delegate to the Congress, President A. N. 

 Caudell; alternate, First Vice-president C. R. Ely. 



Mr. Rohwer announced the death of Mr. H. M. Russell, a mem- 

 ber of the Society and moved that a committee be appointed to 

 draw up suitable resolutions. The motion prevailed and the 

 President appointed as a committee Messrs. Quaintance, Hyslop, 

 and Walton. 



The following program was presented: 



Parasitic Work of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association, 



Dr. L. O. Howard 1 



THE TAGHINID FLY MAUROMYIA PULLA COO- AND ITS 

 SEXUAL DIMORPHISM. 



BY W. R. WALTON, 



U. S. Bureau of Entomology, Cereal and Forage Insect Investigation*. 



In describing this fly 2 as the representative of a new genus and 

 species Mr. Coquillett had before him but two specimens of the 

 insect. These he considered as belonging to opposite sexes. 

 Quite recently Mr. E. Daecke of Harrisburg, Penn., submitted 

 to the writer several specimens of Tachinidsp selected from a 

 large series collected by himself at Carlisle Junction, Penn., which 



Withdrawn for publication elsewhere. 

 - Revision of the N. A. Tachini<l;r, p. 51. 



