OF WASHINGTON, VOLUME XIII, 1911. 31 



MEETING OF APRIL 7, 1910. 



The 239th regular meeting of the Society was entertained 

 by the bachelor members of the Society at the Saengerbtind 

 Hall, 314 C Street, on the evening of April 7, 1910, and there 

 were present Messrs. Barber, Busck, Dyar, Ely, Gill, Ham- 

 mar, Hopkins, Knab, Piper, Popenoe, Sasscer, Schwarz, 

 Viereck, Webb, Webster, and Zimmer, members, and Dr. 

 Mann, a visitor. 



In the absence of the President, Vice-President Webster 

 presided, and the Secretary being absent, Mr. Barber was made 

 secretary pro tern. The reading of the minutes of the pre- 

 ceeding meeting was dispensed with. 



Mr. Schwarz announced the death of Mr. D. H. demons, 

 a member of the Society, at Riverside, California, on March 

 22, and on motion of the Society a committee consisting of 

 Messrs. Schwarz, Busck, and Barber was appointed by the 

 chair to draw up a formal notice for insertion in the Pro- 

 ceedings. 



The first paper of the evening, entitled "New Hawaiian 

 Microlepidoptera," by Mr. Busck, was then presented. 1 



The next paper, " Ecdysis in the Diptera," by Mr. Knab, 

 was discussed by Messrs. Schwarz, Busck, Webster, Piper, 

 Hopkins, and Gill. 



Shorter notes were presented by Messrs. Busck, Dyar, Piper, 

 Hammar, Knab, and Webster. 



A PREOCCUPIED NAME IN SAW-FLIES. 



Pteronus wrighti, new name. 



Amauronematus californicus Marlatt, Tech. Ser. 3, U. S. D. A., 

 Div. Entom., 1896, p. 85, not Pteronus californicus Marlatt, 

 p. 61. 



Amauronematus californicus Marlatt belongs to Pteronus. 

 The above new name is given as californicus had before been 

 used in Pteronus. Named for Mr. W. G. Wright who has 

 sent the species from Southern California. 



S. A. ROHWER. 



'Already published, Proc. Ent. Soc., Wash., XII, 132, 1910. 



