PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



OF WASHINGTON. 



VOL. XIV JANUARY MARCH, 1912 No. 1 



MEETING OF NOVEMBER 2, 1911. 



The 253d regular meeting of the Society was entertained by 

 Professor A. L. Quaintance in the Saengerbund Hall on the 

 night of November 2, 1911, with twenty-five members (Messrs. 

 Babcock, Baker, Barber, Busck, Crawford, Cushman, Dyar, Ely, 

 Foster, Gahan, Gill, Hanimar, Howard, Jones, Knab, Myers, 

 Popenoe, Quaintance, Russell, Sanford, Scott, Schwarz, Wal- 

 ton, Webb) and two guests (Siegler and Wood) present. First 

 Vice President Quaintance occupied the chair. The minutes 

 of the previous meeting were read and corrected. The re- 

 port of the committee to prepare the Obituary and Bibliog- 

 raphy of the late D. W. Coquillett was submitted and re- 

 ferred to the Publication Committee.* 



Mr. Schwarz proposed the name of Dr. K. Escherich, of 

 Tharandt, Germany, for corresponding membership, to be 

 acted upon at the next meeting. 



Mr. Gahan read the first paper of the program, "Descrip- 

 tions of two new genera and six new species of parasitic 

 Hymenoptera," which was followed by a short discussion on 

 the confusion that has resulted from the publication of the 

 supposed hosts of parasites. 



Already published, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., xm, 196, 1911. 



