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TICKS IN THE LEEWARD ISLANDS. 



In tlie supplement to the Leeward Islands Gazette of April 28, 1892, 

 is published an interesting article entitled "Kotes on Ticks," which 

 comprises a general summary of the habits of these parasites on domes- 

 tic animals, and a somewhat extended series of notes ou Ixodes ricinuSj 

 which is followed by an article on the connection between ticks and cat- 

 tle disease, in whi(;h the recent investigations of the Bureau of Animal 

 Industry of this Department are summarized. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON. 



Octoler 6, 1892. — Theodore Holm, Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C, 

 was elected an active member. The following were elected corresponding mem- 

 bers: Prof. J. W. Jenks, Brown University, Providence, R. I.; T. D. A. Cockerell, 

 Institute of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica ; Miss E. A. Orraerod, St. Albans, England; 

 W. Jiilich and A. Luetgens, New York City; Prof. S. A. Forbes, John Marten, and 

 C. A. Hart, Champaign, 111. ; Prof. C. W. Hargitt, Syracuse, N. Y. ; Prof. T. Thorell, 

 Montpellier, France; Prof. W. Kulszyuski, Cracow, Austria; A. D. Hopkins, Mor- 

 gantowu, W. Va., and Dr. F. W. Godiug, Rutland, 111. 



Upon a special invitation Mr. Hopkins gave an account of a recent visit to En- 

 rope for the purpose of studying certain Scolytidai injurious to pine trees. He had 

 brought back with him a large number of specimens of the European Clerus formi- 

 cariits alive for the purpose of introducing them into pine forests in West Vii'ginia 

 infested by Dendroclonus frontalis. Discussed by Messrs. Riley, Howard, and Mar- 

 latt. 



Mr. Ashmead presented a paper upon the Eucharidae of the United States, and 

 exhibited si)ecimens of a number of species of this group which was formerly 

 placed in the Chalcididse, but which he thinks is entitled to family rank. Dis- 

 cussed by Messrs. Riley and Howard. 



Prof. Riley presented some miscellaneous notes, reading at length from a letter 

 received from Dr. Borries, of Copenhagen, upon the evidence of phytophagic habit 

 in two sj^ecies of the Chalcidid genus Megastigmus. He also read extracts from a 

 communication I'rom Prof. J. B. Smith, who had found the eggs of a second brood 

 of Galeruca xan thorn elan a at New Brunswick, N. J. This, Prof. Riley said, was in 

 accordance with his anticipations; and he further stated that eggs of this species 

 were now being laid in the District of Columbia, these being deposited by the 

 fourth brood of beetles, counting the hibernating beetles as the first brood. These 

 notes were discussed by Messrs. Howard, Ashmead, and Marlatt. 



Under the order of short notes and exhibition of specimens Mr. Ashmead exhib- 

 ited the plates of his forthcoming monograph of the Proctotrypidte of North America. 



Mr. Heidemann showed a large series of specimens of jRheumatoiates rileyi Berg- 

 roth, including males, females, and immature specimens, which he had found dur- 

 ing tlie previous week in the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, near Washington. The 

 only known specimen of this insect up to the present time was captured by Rev. J. 

 L. Zabriskie, near Flushing, Long Island, and was figured in Insect Life, vol. iv, 

 p. 199. He called attention to the structural peculiarities of the female sex, which 

 difi'ered in certain respects from the male, as shown in Insect Life. 



E. W. DORAN, 



Secretary X)ro tem. 



