42 THE FLORIDA ENTOMOLOGIST 
of velvet beans from attack, and the danger of its ultimately 
reaching Florida. In the discussion that followed Professor 
Watson stressed the point that the name “bean” as applied to 
the velvet bean was more or less of a misnomer, that the plant 
was not very closely related to the true beans and that there 
are comparatively few insect pests common to the two, so that 
it is not surprising that the Mexican Bean Beetle does not attack 
velvet beans. A motion was passed that a committee of three, 
of whom the Secretary be one, be appointed to prepare resolu- 
tions pointing out the danger to Florida from this beetle and 
urging that growers refrain from securing forage from the 
infested region. 
Under Brief and Timely Notes, Professor Watson read a letter 
from a physician at Hawthorn, Fla., reporting on two cases of 
poisoning by the bite of the “Black Widow” spider. Both 
showed extreme symptoms of nervous and gastric disturbances. 
The latter were so pronounced that when one of the patients 
was rushed to a hospital in Jacksonville he was at once operated 
on for appendicitis. 
J. H. MONTGOMERY, Sec’y. 
Nov. 29, 1920. The Society met in Language Hall at 4:30 
p. m. with President Merrill in the chair. Dr. O. F. Burger, the 
new Plant Pathologist at the Experiment Station, was elected to 
membership. A letter from the President of the Am. Ass. Econ. 
Ent. addressed to President Merrill requesting that a represen- 
tative of the Society be appointed to attend the Chicago meeting 
of the Association in December was read. The President ap- 
pointed Mr. F. M. O’Byrne as our representative at the above 
meeting. . 
The subject of the evening’s program was “A Discussion of 
Dr. Pierce’s Lectures on Entomology” which was led by Dr. E. 
W. Berger. 
Under Brief and Timely Notes Prof. Watson spoke of the 
introduction of a mite from Canada which was parasitic on the 
Oyster-shell Scale and the advisability of determining if this 
mite would work on the closely related Purple Scale. On account 
of the small number of members who would be in Gainesville 
during the last week of December it was decided to have no 
meeting at that time. 
FRANK STIRLING, Secretary pro tem. 
