PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



OF WASHINGTON. 



VOL. XIV OCTOBER - DECEMBER, 1912. No. 4 



MEETING OF APRIL 4, 1912. 



The 258th regular meeting of the Society was entertained by 

 Mr. Marlatt in the Saengerbund Hall, 314 C Street NW. on 

 the evening of April 4, 1912, and there were present Messrs. 

 Banks, Barber, Caudell, Ely, Gahan, Howard, Knab, McAtee, 

 Popenoe, Quaintance, Sasscer, Schwarz, Snyder, Stedman, 

 Vickery, members, and Messrs. F. C. Craighead, J. R. Malloch, 

 C. S. Minot, and W. B. Wood, visitors. President Quain- 

 tance occupied the chair. 



The minutes of the preceding meeting and of the special 

 meeting of March 14, 1912, were read and approved. 



Mr. W. B. Wood was elected active member. 



The first paper of the evening, "Description of an injurious 

 Otiorhynchid," by F. H. Chittenden, was read by title. 1 



The second paper, "Notes on Blood-sucking and Supposedly 

 Blood-sucking Leptidse," by Frederick Knab, was read by the 

 Recording Secretary. 2 



Dr. Howard remarked that this added another family of 

 Diptera to those to be considered in connection with insect- 

 borne diseases. He inquired whether such diversities of habits 

 within a genus is known among the families of Diptera gener- 

 ally considered blood-suckers. 



Mr. Knab stated that this was the case in the Culicidse. 

 In this group we get closely related species, some of which are 



'Published, Proc. Ent, Soc. Wash., XIV, 106, 1912. 

 2 Published, Proc. Ent, Soc. Wash., xiv, 108, 1912. 



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