62 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



WASHINGTON MEETING OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL 

 SOCIETY OF AMERICA. 



The sixth annual meeting of the Entomological Society of America 

 was held in Room 376 of the new U. S. National Museum Building on 

 Tuesday and Wednesday, December 26 and 27. 



The following papers were read : — 



Herbert Osborn. — Faunistic studies in entomology. 



E. P. Felt. — Numerals as aids in classification. 



E. S. Tucker. — Studies of insects bred and collected from the Ameri- 

 can mistletoe. Presented by Andrew Rutherford. 



H. C. Severin. — The influence of temperature on the moulting of the 

 walking-stick, Diapheromera femorata. (Title only.) 



R. Matheson and C. R. Crosby. — Notes on aquatic Hymenoptera. 

 Presented by C. R. Crosby. 



Ann H. Morgan. — Photographs illustrating the life histories of 

 May-flies. 



H. Y. Tsou. — The Chinese wax-scale, Erecerus pe-la. 



A. D. MacGillivray. — The lacinia in the maxilla of the Hymenoptera. 



Lucy Wright Smith. — Glycogen in insects, especially in the nervous 

 system and the eyes. 



J. A. Nelson. — Note on an abnormal queen bee. 



J. Chester Bradley. — The designation of the venation of the hymenop- 

 terous wing. 



Ann H. Morgan. — Homologies in the wing-veins of May-flies. 



A. D. MacGillivray. — The pupal wings of Hepialus thuie. 



J. Chester Bradley. — The wing venation of chaloid flies. 



F. M. Webster. — Our present educational system in relation to the 

 training of economic entomologists. 



C. W. Johnson. — The use of colour in designating types and varieties. 



Leonard Haseman. — Entomological work in Missouri. 



Herbert Osborn. — A problem in the flight of insects. 



E. P. Felt. — The biology of Miastor and Oligarces. 



P. P. Calvert. — Seasonal collecting in Costa Rica. 



W. L. W. Field. — Hybrid butterflies of the genera Basilarchia, 



