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unpleasant, odor about this species when present in large numbers. 
It is not nearly so offensive as in the case of Lecanium nigrofasciatum 
Perg. 
Chermes pinicorticis Fitch is always more or less injurious to white 
pines in Washington Park, Albany, but this year it has been excep- 
tionally abundant, not only giving considerable portions of the trunks 
a whitewashed appearance, but literally plastering the under surface 
of many limbs. A number of these pines, as a consequence, have a 
thin foliage and are sickly. 
Mr. Hopkins congratulated the author on the large number of spe-- 
cies recorded, but he doubted that the tent caterpillar had so changed 
its habits as to attack pine. He was of the opinion that the occurrence 
of this insect upon pine was merely accidental. 
Mr. Ashmead said that he also was skeptical about the occurrence 
of the tent caterpillar on pine, and he advised Mr. Felt to withhold 
that statement from publication until further investigation could be 
made. 
Mr. Cockerell mentioned that in New Mexico the larvee of Clisio- 
campa fragilis sometimes crawled up the pine trees and pupated 
among the needles, but he did not find any proof that they ate the 
leaves. With regard to the inseet called Psewdococcus aceris in the 
Eastern States, it could not be placed in Westwood’s genus Pseudococ- 
cus, but belonged to Phenacoccus. The species was almost certainly 
not the European P. aceris, but was probably American, and without 
a name. 
The secretary read the titles of the following papers by absent mem- 
bers, and, upon motion of Mr. Bruner, they were accepted for publi- 
cation in the Proceedings: Review of the White-Fly Investigation with 
Incidental Problems, by H. A. Gossard, Lake City, Fla. Hydrocyanie 
Acid Gas Notes, by Charles P. Lounsbury and C. W. Mally, Cape Town, 
South Africa. The Use of Hydrocyanie Acid Gas for Exterminating 
Household Insects, by W. R. Beattie, Washington, D. C. Insects of 
the Year in Ohio, by F. M. Webster and Wilmon Newell, Wooster, 
Ohio. Fruit Seriously Injured by Moths, by C. W. Mally, Cape Town, 
South Africa. Notes on Four Imported Pests, by A. H. Kirkland; 
Boston, Mass. Drought, Heat, and Insect Life, by Miss Mary E. 
Murtfeldt, Kirkwood, Mo. 
REVIEW OF THE WHITE-FLY INVESTIGATION, WITH INCIDENTAL 
PROBLEMS. 
By H. A. Gossarp, Lake City, Fla. 
The white fly (Alewrodes citr’) reached its maximum of destructive- 
ness last year, and called forth much apprehension both within the 
bounds of its present distribution and outside of them. About 75 per 
