JOURNAL 



OF 



ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 



OFFICIAL ORGAN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGISTS 



Vol. 2 FEBRL^ARY, 1909 No. 1 



Proceedings of the Twenty-first Annual Meeting of 



the American Association of Economic 



Entomologists 



The twenty-first annual meeting of the American Association of 

 Economic Entomologists was held at the Eastern Female High School, 

 Baltimore. Maryland. December 28 and 29, 1908. 



Part I of this report contains the business proceeding^ while the 

 addresses, papers and discussions will be found in Part II. 



PART I 



The meeting was called to order by President S. A. Forbes at 10 

 a. m. on Friday. December 28. The attendance was larger than at 

 any previous meeting of the Association and averaged over 100 at 

 each session. The following members were present : 



C. N. Ainslie, Washington, D. C; George G. Ainslie, Clemson College, S. 

 C; H. S. Barber, Washington, D. C; G. M. Bentley, Knoxville, Tenn.; R. W. 

 Braucher, W^ashington, D. C.; W. E. Britton, New Haven, Conn.; Fred E. 

 Brooks, Morgantown, W. Va.; Lawrence Bruner, Lincoln, Neb.; A. F. Burgess, 

 Washington, D. C; August Busck, Washington, D. C; J. H. Comstock, Ithaca, 

 N. Y. ; Mel. T. Cook. Newark. Del. ; R. A. Cooley, Bozeman. Mont. : E. C. Cot- 

 ton, Knoxville, Tenn.; F. D. Couden, Washington, D. C; J. C. Crawford, 

 Washington, D. C; C. R. Crosby, Ithaca, N. Y.; R. P. Currie, Washington, 

 D. C; E. P. Felt, Albany, N. Y.; H. T. Fernald, Amherst, Mass.; W. F. Fiske, 

 Washington, D. C; S. A. Forbes, Urbana, 111.; H. L. Frost, Arlington, Mass.; 

 A. B. Gahan, College Park, Md.; H. Garman, Lexington, Ky.; B. N. Gates, 

 Washington, D. C; A. A. Girault, Urbana, 111.; W. H. Goodwin, Wooster, 

 Ohio; H. A. Gossard, Wooster, Ohio; A. G. Hammar, Washington, D. C; 

 Paul Hayhurst, Boston, Mass.; Otto Heidemanu, Washington, D. C; W. E. 

 Hinds, Auburn, Ala.; J. S. Hine, Columbus, Ohio; E. F. Hitchings, Augusta, 

 Me.; H. E. Hodgkiss, Geneva, N. Y.; C. E. Hood, Dallas, Texas; C. W. Hooker, 



