OF WASHINGTON, VOLUME XIV, 1912. 117 



he left Washington specimens of his new species were con- 

 stantly being added to the collection. He sent the new speci- 

 mens or species themselves or, if that was not possible, he 

 saw to it that photographs or drawings were put in place in 

 the collection, so that the series would be as complete as it 

 was possible to make it. 



After the resolutions were adopted, the meeting was ad- 

 journed at 4.30 P. M. 



The following papers were accepted for publication : 



A NOTE ON THE SOUTHERN WALKING-STICK (ANISO- 

 MORPHA BUPRESTOIDES STOLL) AND A TACHINID 

 PARASITE. 



BY H. M. RUSSELL. 



Bureau of Entomology, U. S. Department of Agriculture. 



While at Cutler, Florida, May 8, 1908, the writer captured 

 a pair of walking-sticks in copulation belonging to this species. 

 They were placed in a tin box and left until May 12, when 

 upon opening the box to kill the female it was found that 10 

 eggs were lying loosely upon the bottom. The female when 

 grasped expelled a milky fluid possessing a very disagreeable 

 odor in a very fine mist from some part of the abdomen, re- 

 peating this as often as handled, although the quantity di- 

 minished each time. 



The egg is 4 mm. long and 2 mm. in diameter, shaped exactly 

 like a bean, both ends flattened and one side with a scar in 

 the side similar to one on a bean where it is attached to a 

 pod; anterior pole with round cap fitted so as to open when 

 larva pushes on it; color gray, cap with blackish spot in center, 

 scar on side black, surface with few raised wavy lines running 

 lengthwise and between a number of very minute raised 

 wavy lines. 



Five dipterous pupae were also found in the box, which must 

 have come from the female, although the parasitism did not 

 prevent her from laying the eggs. 



May 29, 1908, a male fly, a tachinid, emerged from one of 

 these pupa 1 , and was described as Phasmophaga meridional^ 

 by Mr. C. H. T. Townsend, in the Annals of the Entomol- 

 ogical Society of America, vol. 11, p. 224, 1909. 



