

PROCEEDINGS 



' 



OF THE 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



OF WASHINGTON 

 VOL. XVI 1914 Xo. 3 



Two HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FIFTH MEETIXC, 

 MARCH 5, 1914. 



The following program was presented: 



Variations in Insects and their Transmission Nathan Banks' 



Method of Fumigating Imported Seed 



E. R. Sasscer and Dr. Lou A. Hawkins 2 



A new species of Callichroma from Texas W. S. Fisher 



A Revision of the North American Species of the Braconid genus 



Habrobracon R. A. Cushman 



Secondary and Tertiary Sexual Characters in Muscoid Flies and their 



Classificatory Value Charles H. T. Townsend 



At the conclusion of the program Mr. C. P. Alexander of Cornell 

 University addressed the Society on his studies of the family 

 Tipulidse, and Mr. M. D. Mitzmain gave an account of his recent 

 work in the Philippine Islands on the insect transmission of surra 

 in stock animals. 



A NEW SPECIES OF CALLICHROMA FROM TEXAS. 



BY W. S. FISHER, Bureau of Entomol(n/. 



Callichroma schwarzi n. sp. 



Male: Rather dull in lustre and of a greenish-blue color throughout 

 above, same beneath but more shining; abdomen rufo-ferruginous; an- 

 tennae, all of the femora, tibiae and tarsi black. Prothorax as in ('. /<//- 

 cat urn Lee., with front deeply constricted, two elevated spaces just back 

 of the constriction and one long transverse elevated ridge on the poslc- 



1 Withdrawn by author. 



2 Withdrawn for publication elsewhere. 



3 To be published later. 



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