PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 
OF AMERICA. 
Washington Meeting. 
The sixth annual meeting of the Entomological Society of 
America was called to order by President Herbert Osborn at 
10:00. a. m., Tuesday, December 26, in Room 376 of the new 
U. S. National Museum building. The following committees, 
appointed previous to the meeting, reported: 
Committee to draft resolutions on the death of Dr. Henry 
Christopher McCook—Henry Skinner, P. P. Calvert, Henry 
L. Vierick. Report accepted and ordered printed. 
Committee to draft resolutions on the death of D. W. 
Coquillet—Nathan Banks, C. W. Johnson, J. 5. Hine. Report 
accepted and ordered printed. 
The chair was directed by motion to appoint the following 
committees: Committee on Resolutions; Committee on Nom- 
inations; Auditing Committee. 
The following papers were read, of which abstracts are 
given for those not to appear in the ANNALS: 
Herbert Osborn. Faunistic studies in entomology. (Printed 
in this number of ANNALS). 
E. P. Felt. Numerals as aids in classification. The habitual 
use of numbers in catalogues indicates utility. A modified 
system of decimal notation is adapted to the needs of naturalists, 
while additions require little change. A general agreement 
upon the numbers for the major zoological division is suggested 
prior to the application of the system by cataloguers and other 
general workers. 
E. S. Tucker. Studies of insects bred and collected from the 
American mistletoe. Presented by Andrew Rutherford—By 
the name of ‘‘American mistletoe’’, the species Phoradendron 
flavescens Nuttall and its several varieties is meant. Two 
snout-beetles belonging to the same group as the cotton boll- 
weevil were bred from terminal enlargements of the stem. 
From the larve of one of these beetles five hymenopterous para- 
sites were bred, all of which attack the larve of the cotton 
boll-weevil. About sixty species in all were obtained. 
H. C. Severin. The influence of temperature on the moulting 
of the walking-stick, Diapheromera femorata. Read by title. 
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