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ARSENICALS AND THE HONEY BEE. 



In the last number of Insect Life, pp. 84-85, in his note on the effect 

 of arsenical insecticides upon the honey bee, Mr. Webster desires to state 

 that it was during a period of two years that Mr. Yenowine sprayed all 

 his fruits freely, so that the increase in his bee colonies was practically 

 that of one unfavorable season, the season of 1888. 



FIRST ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION OF OFFICIAL ECONOMIC 



ENTOMOLOGISTS. 



The Association of Official Economic Entomologists will hold its first 

 annual meeting in the city of Washington, D. C, on November 12, 

 1889, at 11 o'clock a. m., in the Entomological rooms of the U. S. Na- 

 tional Museum. 



According to the resolution of the Association at the Toronto meeting, 

 the annual meeting was to be held on the date and at the place where 

 the Association of Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations 

 should next meet. The date and place for the latter meeting having 

 been fixed, the above notice is hereby given to all members of the As- 

 sociation of Economic Entomologists. All titles of communications to 

 be read should be sent to the secretary as soon as possible, and those 

 desiring enrollment as members will also please communicate with the 

 secretary. 



John B. Smith, 

 Rutgers College^ New Brunswick^ N. J. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON. 



Septemler 5, 1889. — The society opened with an informal discussion, in the course of 

 •which Mr. Schwarz's list of Myrmecophilous insects, read before the last meeting, 

 was increased by the addition of two spiders belonging to the genera Synemosi/na and 

 Synageles by Dr. Mars, and a beetle (Microrhopala melsheimeri) by Mr. Ulke. 



Mr. Schwarz read a note on the spread of Sitones hispidulus, a European clover in- 

 sect, which has probably been recently imported. Its sudden appearance in great 

 numbers in Washington and the likelihood of its becoming a dangerous enemy to 

 clover in this country were discussed. Additional observations on this insect were 

 made by Messrs. Ulke and Linell. 



In a note on a new food plant of Pieris rapw, Mr. Schwarz stated that he had found 

 the eggs, larvse, and pupae on Cakile americana in July at Cape May, N. J., and Vir- 

 ginia Beach, Va. He questioned whether this plant, which grows abundantly all 

 along the Atlantic coast, has not been instrumental in the sjiread of the Cabbage but- 

 terfly from north to south. 



Mr. Schwarz exhibited an exceptionally large specimen of Lymexylon sericorne, 

 calling attention to a remarkable secondary sexual character, viz, the flabellate 

 maxillary palpi. These beetles have been found near Washington in and about de- 

 caying wood of the red oak. 



C. L. Maklatt, 

 Acting Reoording Secretary. 



