FALL NUMBER 87 
Fla. He had previously taken a specimen from a frog’s stomach 
at Cedar Point, Ohio. A colony of these spiders has been re- 
ported at Washington, D. C., and Professor J. H. Comstock 
collected it at Lake City, Fla., some years ago. The first tingid 
in question is Teleonemia belfragei, now very common on Calli- 
carpa americana (French mulberry) on the University campus 
and vicinity at Gainesville. Previously reported only from the 
West Indies, Callicarpa is furthermore a new host for this tingid. 
The other tingid is Dichocysta pictipes, of which Prof. Drake 
collected two specimens in the hammock on the University cam- 
pus. This species had previously not been collected east of Ari- 
zona in the United States, but is found in Mexico. 
July 22. Visitors present were Miss Isabelle Mays, Instructor 
in Mathematics, University Summer School, and Mr. E. L. Rob- 
inson, Asst. Principal, Public Schools, Tampa. 
Professor Carl J. Drake, School of Forestry, Syracuse Uni- 
versity, N. Y. State, and Mr. E. L. Robinson were elected to the 
membership of the Society. 
Under ‘‘Timely Notes’ Professor Drake reported a new species 
of Fulgorid (Lantern-fly Family) on gallberry and huckleberry 
about Gainesville, Fla. Professor Watson reported on the 
successful use of Kansas bait on the Fall Army Worm (Laphygma 
frugiperda) on a property south of the University grounds, and 
that army worms were general over the State from Miami to 
Bonifay and Chipley. Mr. Geo. B. Merrill reported briefly 
an outbreak of the Fall Army Worm just north of Gainesville, 
advising that the same was controlled in part by dusting zinc 
arsenite and calcium arsenate and in part by plowing furrows 
to keep the worms back. 
In the first paper of the evening, Plant Commissioner Wilmon 
Newell described an outbreak of the Banana Root Borer (Cos- 
mopolites sordidus) in South Dade County. Thirty-four proper- 
ties were inspected from January 6 to 19, of which seven were 
found infested. This beetle had been declared a public nuisance 
by the Plant Board only in the December (1917) preceding. 
Eradication work was at once begun by digging and burning the 
plants. Split banana stems were used as baits in the fields and 
large numbers of the beetles caught and destroyed. This beetle 
is a pest in Cuba, Jamaica, British Guiana, islands of the South 
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