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TICKS I>' THi: LZEWAED ISLA^TDS. 



lu tlie sni:»plemenT to tlie Leeward Islands Gazette of April 2S. 1892. 

 is piiblislied an interesting article entitled '-Xotes on Ticks." wMcli 

 compjrises a general sttnmiary of tlie liabits of these parasites on domes- 

 tic animals, and a somewhat extended series of notes on Ixodes rieinas, 

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

 tle disease, in which the recent investigations of the Bureau of Animal 

 Industry of this Department are snmmarized. 



E^'TO^IOLOC^ICAJL SOCEEIY OP TVASHCs'CxTO". 



October 6, 189:3. — ^Theodore Holm. Department of AgricultriTe. WasMngton, D. C, 

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

 l)ers : Prof. J. y^. Jents. Brown University. Providence, E. I. : T. D. A. CockerelL 

 Institnte of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica ; Miss E. A. Ormerod, St. Albans. England: 

 W. Jillicn and A. Lnetgens, Xew York City: Prof. S. A. Eorbes, Jolm Marten, and 

 C. A. Hart. Champaign. HI. : Prof. C. "VT. Hargitt. Syracnse, X. T. : Prof. T. Thorell. 

 Monti»ellier, Erance; Prof. TT. Knlsz^nski, CraeoTr, Atistria; A. D. Hopkins. Mor- 

 gantown. W. Ta.. and Dr. E. W. Goding. Entland, HL. 



Upon a special invitation 3Ir. Hoj^kins gave an accotint of a recent visit to En- 

 rope for tlie pnrpose of stndying certain Scolytidie injnrions to piae trees. He had 

 hronght back with him a large nnmber of specimens of the European Clems forrai- 

 carius alive for the purpose of introdncing them into pine forests in West Yiiginia 

 infested by Dendroctonits frontalis. Discussed by Messrs. Eiley, Howard, and Mar- 

 la tt. 



Mr. Ashmead presented a paper npon the Encharidce of the United States, and 

 exhibited specimens of a nnmber of species of this group which w^as formerly 

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

 cussed by Messrs. Eiley and Howard. 



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

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

 in two species of the Chalcidid genus MegjistigmtLS. He also read extracts from a 

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

 of Galeruca xanthomeJcrna at Xew Brunswick, X. J. This, Prof. Eiley said, was in 

 accordance with Ms 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 3Ir, Ashmead exhib- 

 ited the plates of his forthcoming monograph of the Proctotrypidse of Xorth America. 



]Mr. Heidemann shoTved a large series of specimens of Ulieumatohates rileyi Berg- 

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

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

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

 L. Zabriskie, near Elushing, Long Island, and was figured in Ixsect Lite. vol. rr, 

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

 differed in certain respects from the male, as shown in Ixszcx Life. 



E. TT. DoRAX. 



Secretary j^ro tern. 



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