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read. The Publication Committee reported favorably on a paper entitled 

 "A Revision of the North American species of Phlepsius,'' by Edw. P. 

 Van Duzee. Papers Nos. 258, 259 and 260, were presented for publication. 



Mr. Calvert stated that in the Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. xvii, p. 33, 1890, 

 he had first described the supposed female of Somntochlora Walshii Scud., 

 remarking then that it was much like the female of S.forcipata Scud., 

 specimens of which he had not then seen. During the Summer of 1891 

 he had received the female and three males oi /orcipata from Prof. F. L. 

 Harvey, at Orono, Me. A comparison of the females of Walshii and 

 forcipata showed that the former was distinct. He knew of no evidence 

 that the female Walshii was other than he had described it to be. Miss 

 Wadsworth took a second male of Walshii at Manchester, Me., during 

 the season of 1891; the first male which she had taken was now in Mr. 

 Calvert's collection. 



Dr. Skinner, Mr. Ridings and Mr. Laurent, were appointed a committee 

 to make nominations for the coming year. Mr. Ridings moved that, when 

 the Section adjourn, it adjourn to meet on the second Monday in De- 

 cember. Henry Skinner, Recorder. 



A regular meeting was held in the Hall, Dec. 14, 1891, Director Geo. 

 H. Horn, M.D., presided. Members present: Messrs. Horn, Welles, 

 Martindale and Ridings. Associates: Calvert, Fox and Johnson. In the 

 absence of the Recorder, owing to sickness, Mr. J. H. Ridings acted as 

 such. The reports of the Treasurer and of the Joint Committee on En- 

 tomological News were read. The committee on nominations named 

 the following to serve as officers for the ensuing year: Director, Geo. H. 

 Horn, M.D.; Vice-Director, Isaac C. Martindale; Recorder, Henry Skin- 

 ner, M.D.; Treasurer, E. T. Cresson; Conservator, Henry Skinner, M.D.j 

 Publication Committee: J. H. Ridings and Philip Laurent. On motion, the 

 Recorder was directed to cast a ballot for the Section, and the above were 

 declared elected. J. H. Ridings, Recorder, pro tern. 



The Entomological Society of Washington, November 5, 1891. — 

 Messrs. Theo. Gill and C. W. Stiles were elected active members of the 

 Society, and Rev. C. J. S. Bethune, of Port Hope, Canada, and Prof. H. . 

 A. Morgan, of Baton Rouge, La., corresponding members. 



Under short notes, etc., Mr. Schwarz exhibited some fine and complete 

 examples- of the galleries made by Hylesinus sericeus in the bark oi Abies 

 menziesii from the Wahsatch Mountains of Utah. These galleries closely 

 resemble those made by the species of Scolytus. 



The Secretary read a note by Mr. Wm. D. Richardson, of Fredericks- 

 burg, Va., corresponding member of the Society, on the life-history of 

 Lotna Sayi. The food-plant of this species is Commolyna virgitiica; the 

 eggs are laid singly on the leaves, and the larvae usually bore in the flower 

 stalks, ejecting their faeces from the entrance hole of the burrow. Dis- 

 cussed by Mr. Schwarz. 



