44 PROCEEDINGS ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



Dr. Dyar as editor reported that three numbers of the Proceed- 

 ings had appeared during the year and that a fourth number was 

 now in the hands of the printer. Dr. Howard moved that the 

 Society extend to Dr. Dyar a vote of thanks for the able manner 

 in which he has edited the Proceedings and for his interest in 

 financing this publication. Carried. 



The following names were proposed for active membership: 

 N. E. Mclndoo, J. B. Gill, J. Malloch, and R. C. Shannon of the 

 Bureau of Entomolqgy and Prof. J. B. Parker of the Catholic 

 University. Under suspension of the rules all five were elected. 



Under new business the recording Secretary read the amend- 

 ments to the constitution proposed at the 262d meeting. These 

 amendments were voted on by paragraphs and adopted. 



The following officers were elected for the year 1913: President, 

 August Busck; First Vice-President, W. D. Hunter; Second Vice- 

 President, A. N. Caudell; Recording Secretary, E. R. Sasscer; 

 Secretary-Treasurer, S. A. Rohwer; Editor, J. C. Crawford; addi- 

 tional members of the Executive Committee: E. A. Schwarz; L. 

 0. Howard and Nathan Banks. Prof. A. L. Quaintance was 

 nominated to represent the Society as a Vice-President of the 

 Washington Academy of Sciences. 



At the request of President Quaintance, Mr. G. E. Bodkin, 

 Government Economic Biologist of British Guiana, South America, 

 gave a short account of Economic Entomology in his part of the 

 world of which the following is a brief res-urne": 



Briefly indicating the geographical position of British Guiana 

 he went on to describe the insect pests attacking the principal 

 crop, which is sugar cane. The giant moth borer (Castnia licus) 

 bores out the center of the canes and thereby has caused enormous 

 reductions in the yields of sugar during recent years. 



No parasites of this pest have yet been discovered for in all 

 the stages of its life history it is singularly well protected. The 

 eggs are deposited singly and the young larvae on emergence from 

 the egg, bore directly into the cane, undergoing the larval and 

 pupal stages in that position. The moths are diurnal. 



The small moth borers (species of Diatrcea )also cause very 

 considerable damage, and the weevil borer (Sphenophorus sericeus) 

 is at times harmful. Shot hole borers (a species of Xyleborus) 

 invariably attack canes that have been previously weakened by 

 fungi. 



