PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



OF WASHINGTON. 



VOL. XI OCTOBER-DECEMBER, 1909 No. 4 



MEETING OF JUNE 10, 1909. 



The 232d regular meeting \vas held at the Saengerbund 

 Hall, 314 C Street, X.W., the Society being entertained by 

 Mr. A. L. Quaintance. 



President Heidemann presided and there were present 

 Messrs. Burke, Cauclell, demons, Dyar, Gahan, Gill, Heide- 

 mann, Hopkins, Knab, Phillips, Popenoe, Quaintance, Schwarz, 

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

 Snodgrass, and Wall, visitors. 



In the absence of the recording secretary, the corresponding 

 secretary was asked to act in his place. 



An invitation of Mr. J. M. Lawford to meet at his home in 

 Baltimore for a July meeting was presented to the Society. It 

 was decided not to hold summer meetings, and the invitation 

 was accepted for the regular October meeting. The cor- 

 responding secretary was instructed to write Mr. Lawford to 

 find out if this would be convenient for him. 



Mr. Caudell presented a paper entitled "Some Notes on 

 Orthoptera," in which he discussed the validity of varietal 

 names, no one of which bears the specific name as a varietal 

 name also. He cited several cases of this kind and proposed 

 changes. The paper caused considerable discussion, which was 

 engaged in by Messrs. Snodgrass, Knab, Schwarz, Gill, and 

 Hopkins. Dr. Hopkins objected to the use of subgeneric 

 names. Dr. Gill cited numerous cases in which old genera ru-d 

 been combined into a single genus. 



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