﻿DEC. 
  4, 
  1922 
  proceedings: 
  entomologicaIv 
  society 
  465 
  

  

  which 
  were 
  unknown 
  to 
  him, 
  with 
  a 
  statement 
  that 
  they 
  were 
  doing 
  very 
  ser- 
  

   ious 
  damage 
  to 
  all 
  the 
  vineyards 
  in 
  the 
  Las 
  Vegas 
  Valley 
  in 
  southern 
  Nevada. 
  

   This 
  is 
  a 
  desert 
  region 
  where 
  they 
  are 
  growing 
  Muscat 
  grapes 
  under 
  irriga- 
  

   tion. 
  The 
  beetles 
  prove 
  to 
  be 
  Glyptoscelis 
  squamulata 
  Crotch, 
  a 
  species 
  which 
  

   has 
  been 
  collected 
  in 
  southern 
  California 
  and 
  Arizona 
  on 
  sage 
  brush 
  and 
  the 
  

   small 
  desert 
  sunflower 
  Balsamorhiza 
  sagittata. 
  

  

  "It 
  is 
  evidently 
  a 
  native 
  desert 
  insect 
  which 
  has 
  turned 
  its 
  attention 
  to 
  

   the 
  cultivated 
  plant 
  which 
  has 
  usurped 
  its 
  territory. 
  The 
  County 
  Agent 
  

   went 
  on 
  to 
  say 
  that 
  the 
  insects 
  do 
  their 
  work 
  at 
  night, 
  boring 
  small 
  holes 
  into 
  

   the 
  buds 
  just 
  before 
  the 
  vines 
  started 
  to 
  leaf 
  out, 
  and 
  eating 
  out 
  the 
  center 
  

   of 
  the 
  bud." 
  , 
  

  

  350th 
  meeting 
  

  

  The 
  350th 
  meeting 
  was 
  held 
  June 
  1, 
  1922, 
  in 
  Room 
  43 
  of 
  the 
  New 
  National 
  

   Museum, 
  with 
  President 
  Gahan 
  in 
  the 
  chair 
  and 
  57 
  members 
  and 
  guests 
  

   present. 
  

  

  The 
  first 
  paper 
  of 
  the 
  evening 
  was 
  an 
  account 
  by 
  Dr. 
  Wm. 
  M. 
  Mann 
  of 
  

   his 
  recent 
  trip 
  to 
  South 
  America 
  on 
  the 
  Mulford 
  Exploration, 
  illustrated 
  

   with 
  lantern 
  slides. 
  

  

  The 
  balance 
  of 
  the 
  evening 
  was 
  devoted 
  to 
  notes 
  and 
  exhibition 
  of 
  speci- 
  

   mens. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  McIndoo 
  asked 
  where 
  the 
  silk 
  was 
  obtained 
  which 
  was 
  used 
  in 
  the 
  

   ants' 
  nests. 
  Dr. 
  Mann 
  said 
  it 
  was 
  obtained 
  from 
  the 
  larvae. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Hyslop 
  spoke 
  of 
  a 
  nitidulid 
  attacking 
  strawberries 
  in 
  New 
  York 
  

   and 
  Connecticut. 
  He 
  stated 
  that 
  about 
  three 
  years 
  ago 
  specimens 
  of 
  

   a 
  small 
  nitidulid 
  were 
  sent 
  to 
  the 
  National 
  Museum 
  from 
  Youngstown, 
  

   N. 
  Y., 
  for 
  determination. 
  These 
  proved 
  to 
  be 
  the 
  European 
  Heterostomus 
  

   puUcarius 
  L., 
  a 
  species 
  apparently 
  of 
  but 
  little 
  economic 
  importance 
  in 
  

   Europe, 
  where 
  it 
  is 
  recorded 
  as 
  feeding 
  on 
  the 
  pollen 
  of 
  Linaria. 
  In 
  1920 
  

   Mr. 
  H. 
  NoTMAN 
  described 
  what 
  Mr. 
  Schwarz 
  considers 
  as 
  this 
  species 
  under 
  

   the 
  name 
  of 
  H. 
  mordelloides, 
  from 
  Schoharie, 
  New 
  York. 
  In 
  1921, 
  Mr. 
  H. 
  

   Morrison 
  collected 
  specimens 
  of 
  this 
  same 
  beetle 
  in 
  Arnold 
  Arboretum 
  

   at 
  Boston. 
  In 
  this 
  number 
  of 
  the 
  Bulletin 
  is 
  a 
  report 
  by 
  Dr. 
  E. 
  P. 
  Felt 
  

   that 
  this 
  insect 
  is 
  seriously 
  damaging 
  strawberries 
  in 
  Columbia 
  County, 
  

   and 
  is 
  distributed 
  over 
  Saratoga, 
  Albany, 
  Niagara, 
  and 
  Schoharie 
  Counties, 
  

   New 
  York. 
  The 
  damage 
  is 
  done 
  by 
  the 
  adult 
  beetles 
  feeding 
  at 
  the 
  base 
  

   of 
  young 
  blossoms 
  and 
  producing 
  "nubbins" 
  or 
  entirely 
  destroying 
  the 
  

   fruit. 
  

  

  One 
  of 
  the 
  most 
  interesting 
  developments 
  of 
  the 
  month 
  has 
  been 
  the 
  de- 
  

   termination 
  as 
  Anomala 
  orientalis 
  Water, 
  of 
  a 
  beetle 
  collected 
  in 
  Connecticut 
  

   during 
  the 
  past 
  two 
  years. 
  This 
  is 
  the 
  Anomala 
  which 
  occasioned 
  so 
  much 
  

   concern 
  in 
  Hawaii 
  about 
  ten 
  years 
  ago. 
  The 
  insect 
  is 
  a 
  native 
  of 
  Japan 
  and 
  

   was 
  probably 
  introduced 
  into 
  Hawaii 
  before 
  1908 
  in 
  soil 
  on 
  the 
  roots 
  of 
  

   imported 
  plants 
  from 
  Japan. 
  In 
  1908, 
  Dr. 
  Lyon, 
  then 
  working 
  with 
  the 
  

   Hawaiian 
  Sugar 
  Planters 
  Association 
  observed 
  large 
  numbers 
  of 
  these 
  larvae 
  

   at 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  cane 
  plants 
  but 
  mistook 
  them 
  for 
  the 
  Japanese 
  beetle 
  of 
  Hawaii 
  

   (Adoretus 
  tenuimaculatus 
  Water.). 
  In 
  1912, 
  Dr. 
  A. 
  SpEar, 
  in 
  studying 
  the 
  

   fungous 
  diseases 
  of 
  insects 
  affecting 
  sugar-cane 
  in 
  Hawaii 
  collected 
  a 
  number 
  

   of 
  these 
  larvae 
  and 
  turned 
  them 
  over 
  to 
  Mr. 
  F. 
  Muir, 
  who 
  recognized 
  them 
  

   as 
  a 
  species 
  new 
  to 
  the 
  Island. 
  In 
  June 
  of 
  that 
  year 
  Mr. 
  Muir 
  visited 
  the 
  

   infested 
  fields 
  and 
  collected 
  adults; 
  the 
  pest 
  though 
  infecting 
  but 
  a 
  small 
  

   area 
  was 
  extremely 
  destructive, 
  and 
  the 
  Hawaiian 
  Sugar 
  Planters 
  Association 
  

  

  