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Seconded and after discussion carried. 



The meeting then adjourned until after the conclusion of the 

 address by Vice President Conklin before Section F., of the Amer- 

 ican Association for the Advancement of Science. 



Upon reconvening, Mr. C. R. Crosby read a paper entitled, 

 "Notes on a Chalcid infesting an Apple-seed.'' 



Prof. Bruner said that the species certainly was of much im- 

 portance from a horticultural standpoint. Dr. Smith said he 

 thought they might have been imported. Mr. Crosby said he 

 had found them generally distributed over the state of New York. 

 Dr. Howard felt certain that they had been imported. The dis- 

 covery that Syntomaspis is ph^^tophagous is one," he said, "of 

 very great interest." Some time ago Mr. Banks had called the 

 speaker's attention to the work of Motschulsky referred to by Mr. 

 Crosby, and later on visiting Crimea he had seen Motschulsky's 

 specimens. An assistant in the U.S. Bureau of Entomology has 

 found what are probably the larvae of this species in the seeds of 

 an imported Russian haw. Dr. Fletcher said that in the past 

 many apple seeds had been imported from Russia, and that he 

 thought the insects might have entered in that way. 



Dr. J. G. Needham read a paper entitled, ''The New Biologi- 

 cal Field Station at Cornell University.'' 



''The mouth parts and phytogeny of the Siricoidea." J. Ches- 

 ter Bradley. Discussion by Dr. Smith and Dr. Riley. 



"Is Vespa borealis an Inquiline?" (An account of finding 

 males and females of Vespa borealis living together apparently 

 on friendly terms.) Dr. James Fletcher. 



Discussion by Mr. Brues and Dr. Smith. Dr. Fernald said 

 that no worker of borealis had been described, and that two Euro- 

 pean species of Vespa were known to have a similar habit. 



"On certain Structural Characters of the genus Catocala." W. 

 Beutenmuller. Read by title. 



"The Entomological Society of America and its work." H. H. 

 Lyman. 



' ' The Habits of the Crane-fly Dicranomyia defuncta O. S. " Dr. 

 J. G. Needham. 



"The Life history of a Bee fly, Spogostylum analc. Say." 

 (The larvae parasitic on the larvse of a tiger beetle, Cicindela scu- 

 tellaris. Say. Eggs laid in Juh^ or August; larvae on the last 

 larval stage of the host in Spring ; when host makes its pupal cell 



