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A list of the beetles of the District of Columbia. Ulke, 1902. Proc.U.S. 



Nat, Mus., vol. 25, No. 1275. 

 A list of Neuropteriod insects, exclusive of Odonata, from the vicinity 



of Washington, D. C. Banks. Proc. Ent. Soc. W;ish., vol. <>, p. 201. 

 A list of the Araneaj of the District of Columbia. Marx. Proc. Ent. Soc. 



Wash., vol. 2, p. 148. 

 The Psychodidse of the vicinity of Washington. Banks. Proc. Ent, Soc. 



Wash., vol. 8, p. 148. 

 List of Conopid flies taken within a five-mile radius of Falls Church, Va. 



Banks. Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., vol. 8, p. 1M. 

 New Smynthuridse from the District of Columbia. Banks. Proc. Ent. 



Soc. Wash., vol. 5, p. 154. 

 Notes on some interesting flies from the vicinity of Washington, D. C. 



Townsend. Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., vol. I, p. 224. 



To bring the matter before the Society it was suggested 

 that: (1) An advisory committee of three be appointed; (2) 

 a card system should be installed so that records could be 

 made permanent; (3) a definite boundary for the limits of 

 the local list be established. The advisory committee would 

 be necessary as a directing force and to establish uniformity. 

 A 5 by 3 card, ruled so as to have a space for the determiner, 

 locality, date, collector, number of specimens, and disposition 

 of the same, was suggested. Maps were passed around with 

 various radii from the Capitol building drawn so as to give an 

 idea of the area covered by any radius. The 20-mile radius 

 would bring in all the favorite collecting grounds and give 

 plenty of un worked territory. It was suggested that tin- 

 division of the chosen area into certain smaller faunistic 

 areas would be useful. Thus the swampy area along the 

 Eastern Branch (Anacostia River) might be called S4. 



Part of the introduction in a "Guide to the Flora of Wash- 

 ington and Vicinity" (1881) was quoted. The quoted part 

 was that dealing with the comparison of the plants listed in 

 "Florse Columbianae Prodromus" (1830), where it is stated 

 that 81 of the plants of the (1830) work, "represent bona 

 fide discoveries of species which either do not occur or are 

 so rare as to have escaped the investigations of the present 

 generation of botanists." It was also stated that to the 

 knowledge of Mr. Heidemann certain species of Hemiptcra 

 have become extinct in our local area. 



Mr. Pierce remarked that while local faunal lists are of 

 considerable interest from a purely technical standpoint they 

 have a high economic value. In the study of the cotton boll 

 weevil the entomological complex includes all insects acting 



