100 PROCEEDINGS ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



At the conclusion of the regular papers on the programme, 

 President Quaintance called on Mr. J. R. Malloch, who re- 

 sponded with a few general remarks on systematic entomology 

 in Scotland. Commenting on the insects of this country, he 

 stated that he found an unusually large number showing- 

 light colors and bright hues as compared with those of Europe. 



-Under "Notes and Exhibition of Specimens," Mr. Marlatt 

 commented on the present status of the quarantine bill and 

 stated that it had now reached a satisfactory stage and would 

 in all probability be made a law during the present session of 

 Congress. He also referred to the action of the governor of 

 California in calling a special session of the legislature for 

 the direct purpose of placing a quarantine on Hawaiian fruits. 

 The purpose of this legislation is to prevent the introduction 

 of the fruit fly, which is now established in Hawaii. 



-Mr. J. A. Hyslop gave the folio wing notes from the Pacific 

 Northwest. He said : 



The food of Laropsis, sp. n., Rowher : While driving through 

 a fallow field at Govan, Washington, on August 24, 1911, 

 I noticed one of these wasps awkwardly traveling over the 

 ground, half flying and half walking. On closer examination 

 it was found to be carrying a locustid with which it was un- 

 able to fly. The insects were collected and when submitted, 

 respectively, to Messrs. Rohwer and Caudell, of this Society, 

 for determination, both proved to be new species. The 

 locustM was a species of Phrixocncmis as yet undescribed. 



Brachycistis ampins Blake : These mutillids have occured 

 in great numbers each spring of the three years that I have 

 spent in the semiarid Big Bend country of Washington, viz, 

 1909, 1910, and 1911. At Conell, on April 5, 1910, they were 

 so numerous about lights as to remind one very forcibly of 

 the annual flights of ephemerids in this city. At Govan they 

 were decidedly troublesome, flying into and clogging the lamp 

 chimneys. 



Crioccphalns product us Lee. : These cerambycids have been 

 extremely numerous during the month of August of the past 

 three years at Pullman, Washington, where they were very 

 troublesome, entering houses and flying about lights in a head- 

 long manner, as do lachnosternas in the east. As many as 

 ten were collected in my room in one evening. These beetles 

 are known to spend their larval stages in Pinns poiiderosa 

 and are probably brought to Pullman as larvae and pupae in 

 cord wood, as the nearest standing timber is 12 miles away. 



