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Discussion of this paper was deferred until the afternoon session. 

 The next paper was on the — 



ROSE SAW-FLIES IN THE UNITED STATES. 



]iy ('. y. Rii.KV. 

 [Thi.s paper was jmblishcil in Xo. 1 nf tlie current volimie of INSECT Life (pp. 6-U.)] 



Association adjourned to meet at 2 p. m. 



AFTERNOON SESSION. 



The Association convened at 2 p. m., but at once adjourned to meet 

 with the Society for Promotion of Agricultural Science, to be present 

 at the reading of an entomological paper by Mr. Osborn on "Further 

 notes on the treatment of grass insects," and also ajjaper on "The Har- 

 lequin Cabbage Bug," by Mr. Weed. 



On reassembling, the credentials of Mr. P. H. Rolfs, of Lake City, 

 Fla., were presented by Mr. Webster; H. A. Grossard, Ames, Iowa, by 

 Mr. Osborn; and C. F. Baker, of Fort Collins, Colo., by Mr. Weed. 



The three gentlemen were elected to active membership on motion 

 of Mr, Forbes. The committee on address of Vice-President presented 

 the following report : 



Your committee would respectfully report that the address by the Vice-President 

 in his resume of the work in economic entomology during the past year be highly 

 commended, and that his recommendation in regard to work in aquatic entomology 

 bearing upon fish-culture, be recommended as worthy the attention of economic 

 entomologists. 



E. B. SOUTHWICK, 



Chairman. 

 I). S. Kellicott, 

 J. B. Smith, 



Comviittee. 



This report was accepted by the Association, as read. 

 The Secretary then read the following paper: 



NOTES ON PLANT FAUNiE. 



By T. 1). A. CocKERELL, Kingston, Ja»naua. 



Anyone who devotes himself to the study of entomology cannot fail 

 to observe that the limits of faunae are not always geographical in the 

 ordinary sense, inasmuch as a genus or family of plants, or even animals, 

 may support an insect fauna quite as peculiar to it as that of most 

 countries or islands. The recognition of this fact has given rise to some 

 very interesting researches, of which it is hard to say whether they are 

 more important from the strictly scientific or the economic point of view. 



