PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



OF WASHINGTON 



VOL. XV 1918 JAN 28 



MEETING OF JUNE 5, 1913. 



The 269th regular meeting of the Society was entertained by the 

 Executive Committee in the Saengerbund Hall, 314 C street X.W., 

 on the evening of June 5, 1913. There were present Messrs. 

 Baker, Barber, Boeving, Busck, Cushman, Duckett, Ely, Fisher, 

 Gill, Greene, Heinrich, Kirk, Knab, Pierce, Quaintance, Rohwer, 

 Sanford, Sasser, Schwarz, Shannon, Turner, and Wood, members, 

 and Messrs. W. S. Abbott, Jacob Kotinsky, and Dr. William H. 

 Fox, visitors. President Busck occupied the chair. 



Mr. Rohwer stated that he had received a letter from Dr. Sharp 

 who was recently elected Honorary Member stating that he was 

 -ending for the use of the society a copy of Fauna Hawaiiensis. 

 The publication is to be filed in the Division of Insects Library at 

 the National Museum. 



The following papers were presented. 



NOTES ON THE LIFE HISTORY OF RHOPALOSOMA 

 POEYI CRESSON. 



BY J. DOUGLAS HOOD, Hioluyictil Survey. 



While collecting on Plummer's Island, Maryland, the sixth day 

 of last October, an adult female of the jumping tree cricket, Oro- 

 rftiirix xalttitor Uhler, was seen scampering over the forest floor as 

 rapidly as a large abdominal protuberance and a nearly function- 

 less hind leg would permit. It was placed in a pill box and later 

 transferred to a suitable rearing cage for observation. 



The protuberance proved to be an external parasite, the larva 

 of Rhopalosoma poei/i ( Yesson. It was attached at the third al>- 



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