JOURNAL 



OF 



ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 



OFFICIAL ORGAN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGISTS 



Vol. 4 APRIL, 1911 No. 2 



Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Annual Meet- 

 ing of the American Association of 

 Economic Entomologists 



{Continued from Page 96) 



Morning Session, Thursday, December 29, 1910 



President Sanderson: The first paper will be the "Economic 

 Importance of Stidocephala, by Herbert Osborn. 



ECONOMIC IMPORTANCE OF STICTOCEPHALA 



By Herbert Osborn, Ohio Stale University 



This genus has not generally been considered of any particular 

 economic importance, but some instances which have come up within 

 the last few months, and evidences secured from various sources, 

 prove that it has an economic importance that cannot longer be 

 overlooked. It may be premised that the species of this genus are 

 many of them widely distributed throughout the country, and in 

 some cases occur in considerable abundance, so that if they increase 

 in number, and at the same time direct their attacks toward any 

 important crop, they may easily become of considerable importance 

 from an economic standpoint. 



One of the most widely distributed species is Stictocephala festina Say, 

 which has a distribution throughout the entire southern and south- 

 western part of the United States. This species has been known since 

 its early description by Thomas Say, has been a very common insect 



