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I requested the owner to send me such insects as he might find on the 

 plants within the next few days and accordingly received a few more 

 specimens from him. In all I obtained 46 samples of Tragidion coquus 

 Lee all similar in markings, being black with red elytral spots and a 

 like number of Euphoria sepulchralis Fabr. and inda L. besides those 

 species already mentained and several more of Coleoptera and other 

 orders. EDGAR L. DICKERSON. 



Doings of Societies. 



Meeting of the Cotton Belt Entomologists, 



The annual meeting of the Association of Official Entomolo- 

 gists of the Cotton Belt was held at Baton Rouge, La., on No- 

 vember 1 3th and I4th, in the Agricultural Building of the 

 Louisiana State University. 



Entomologists from the North as well as the South were in 

 attendance, the following States being represented : Louisiana, 

 by Wilmon Newell, B. H. Guilbeau, C. W. Flynn, J. B. Garrett, 

 M. S. Dougherty, Harper Dean, A. H. Rosenfeld and R. S. 

 Howell; Mississippi, by Glenn W. Herrick; Alabama, by R. S. 

 Macintosh ; Florida, by E. W. Berger ; Georgia, by R. I. Smith 

 and W. W. Chase ; Tennessee, by H. A. Morgan ; Arkansas, by 

 C. F. Adams ; North Carolina, by Tait Butler and R. S. Wog- 

 lum; New Hampshire, by E. Dwight Sanderson; Illinois, by 

 S. A. Forbes ; Iowa, by H. E. Summers, and the Department of 

 Agriculture, by W. D. Hunter, W. Dwight Pierce, F. C. 

 Bishopp and W. A. Hooker, of the Bureau of Entomology, 

 and Cooper Curtice and B. H. Ransom, of the Bureau of Ani- 

 mal Industry. 



In the absence of the chairman and secretary, Professor Wil- 

 mon Newell called the meeting to order and Professor E. 

 Dwight Sanderson and W. A. Hooker were elected chairman 

 and secretary, respectively. 



Tuesday's session was devoted to a discussion of the cotton 

 boll weevil. Mr. W. D. Hunter, in charge of the boll weevil 

 investigations of the Bureau of Entomology, opened the meet- 

 ing, giving an account of the progress made in the boll weevil 



