OF WASHINGTON. VOLUME XIII, 1<U1. 93 



The minutes of the last meeting were read and corrected. 



As unfinished business it was reported that following a 

 meeting of the Executive Committee a special sub-committee 

 undertook the revision of the foreign mailing list, and its 

 recommendation that all exchanges be discontinued except 

 with certain societies, and that our publications be sent gratis 

 to certain other institutions listed, has been approved. The 

 report also recommends that if the exchanges received from 

 the societies listed cannot be sold, they be presented either to 

 the Library of the Bureau of Entomology or to the Smith- 

 sonian Institution. 



-Mr. Viereck read his paper on the Hymenoptera in 

 Smith's Insects of New Jersey, third edition, 1910. 



HYMENOPTERA IN SMITH'S INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY, 

 THIRD EDITION, 1910. 



BY H. L. VIERECK. 



In December, 1910, the New Jersey State Museum issued 

 an annual report containing the Insects of New Jersey, being 

 the third edition of Prof. J. B. Smith's well-known list of in- 

 sects of this State. 



The writer was invited to prepare the systematic portion of 

 the part on Hymenoptera in this list, excepting the Cynipidu 1 

 and Formicoidea, but confined himself to the arrangement of 

 the sequence of the superfamilies for the whole order and to 

 the sequence of families, genera, and species under the Cyni- 

 poidea (with the exception of the Cynipidai>). the Ichneumo- 

 noidea, Proctotrypoidea, Vespoidea, Sphecoidea, and Apoidea. 

 The understanding on the writer's part was that Dr. MacGil- 

 livray should be the author of the systematic portion in the 

 Tenthredinoidea and Mr. J. C. Crawford in the Chalcidoidea 

 in the same way as Mr. Beutenmiiller became author of the 

 Cynipidce and Professor Wheeler of the Formicickc or Formi- 

 coidea. These arrangements were entered into in order that 

 this great complex, the Hymenoptera, might, as treated in 

 "The New Jersey List," have the advantage of the scrutiny 

 of specialists actively engaged in pursuing the study of the 

 several groups. The advisability of such a course is natur- 

 ally patent to anyone at all familiar with the rapid strides 

 that are being made toward a more modern, searching, and 

 exhaustive arrangement of our knowledge of entomology. 



