PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



OF WASHINGTON. 



VOL. XI JULY-SEPTEMBER, 1909 No. 3 



MEETING OF MAY 13, 1909. 



The 231st meeting of the Society was entertained by Dr. 

 Gill at the Saengerbund Hall, 314 C Street X.W., on the even- 

 ing of May 13, 1909, with the President in the chair and the 

 following present : Messrs. Barber, Caudell, demons, Craw- 

 ford, Davis, Dyar, Gill, Heidemann, Hooker, Hopkins, Knab, 

 Lawford. Phillips, Popenoe, Quaintance, Sasscer, Schwarz, 

 Smythe, Ulke, and Viereck, members, and Messrs. McCray 

 and Wall, visitors. 



The minutes of the previous meeting were read and ap- 

 proved. 



Messrs. \\ . L. McAtee, A. H. McCray, and D. L. Van Dine, 

 of the I". S. Department of Agriculture, were elected active 

 members of the Society. 



A communication from the Washington Academy of Sciences 

 with reference to the movement now on foot to secure funds 

 for the erection of a building for the use of the local scientific 

 societies was read and on motion of Dr. Hopkins the President 

 was authorized to appoint a committee to aid the project. 



-Tlie iir>t paper of the evening, "Remarks on Certain 

 Orange Aleyrodids, with Description of a New Genus, " : by 

 Mr. A. L. Quaintance, was discussed by Messrs. Schwarz, Gill, 

 and Hopkins. 



-Mr. Schwarz then presented a paper on a saw-fly injuri- 

 ous to willows and exhibited numerous photographs by Mr. 

 Barber in this connection. 



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