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Mr. Hopkins proposed the name of Trevor Kincaid, of Seattle, 

 Wash. 



Mr. Webster proposed the name of Wihiion Newell, of Wooster, 

 Ohio. 



Mr. Woodworth proposed the name of Carroll Fowler, of Berkeley, 

 Cal. 



Mr. Fernald proposed the name of C. M. Walker, of Amherst, Mass. 



Mr. Howard moved that a committee on officers for the next meet- 

 ing and also a committee of three on resolutions be appointed to report 

 on the following afternoon. 



The motion was carried and the chairman announced that the com- 

 mittees would be appointed later. 



Mr. Howard then presented a paper on: 



PRESENT CONDITION OF THE BLASTOPHAGA IN CALIFORNIA. 



By L. (). Howard, Wasliingtoii, D. C. 



In this paper the speaker detailed the operations in the introduction 

 and establishment of Blastophaga which had been carried on since the 

 last meeting of the Association. As a fuller and later account will be 

 published in the Yearbook of the U. S. Department of Agriculture 

 for 1900 the paper presented is not published here. 



ESTABLISHMENT OF A NEW BENEFICIAL INSECT IN CALI- 

 FORNIA. 



By L. O. Howard. 



[Abstract.] 



A second note presented by Mr. Howard also related to the intro- 

 duction of a beneficial insect. He stated that it would perhaps be 

 remembered that at the tenth annual meeting of this Association he 

 had referred to his efforts to introduce and establish in this country, 

 with the assistance of Prof. Antonio Berlese, of Italy, the interesting 

 Oriental parasite known as Scutellista cyanea (see Bulletin 17, n. s. 

 Div. Entom., U. S. Dept. Agric, pp. 13,14.) In Italy this curious 

 parasite occurs connnonly in the wax scale {Ceroplastes ruscl)^ and it 

 was introduced into Italy in all probability from the Orient about 

 forty 3^ears ago. although originally described by Motschulsky in 1859 

 from specimens reared by Nietner in Ceylon from Lecanium cojfece. 

 The living specimens were sent by Dr. Berlese and his colleague. Dr. 

 Leonardi, and were colonized at Baton Rouge, La., through the cour- 

 tesy of Prof. H. A. Morgan and Prof. S. E. McClendon; also in 

 Washington, D. C. , in the insectary of the Division of Entomology 

 upon Cerojolastes cirripediformis. The Washington specimens did not 



