The members of the Association of Economic Entomologists and the local Entomologists of Washington connected with the Entomological Society of Washington, at the conclusion of the meeting of the first-named Association, met in an informal reunion and smoker at the residence of Mr. Wm. H. Ashmead, on the evening of December 27th 1902. At this meeting the subject, first broached in the concluding session of the Association of Economic Entomologists, of reviving the Entomological Club of the A. A. A. S. was considered, and in the absence of the last President of the Club, the Rev. C.J.S. Bethune, Mr. Schwarz was made Chairman of the meeting for the purposes of this discussion. A general desire was manifested on the part of those present to have the Entomological Club revived or some other similar organization instituted.

Since the majority of the Entomologists present at this meeting belong to a younger generation, who have never attened any ot the meetings of the old Entomological Club of the A. A. A. S, a short history of the Club may not be out of place on this occasion. These notes I have prepared from a hasty persual of the most readily available entomological literature, and more especially from the volumes of the Canadian Entomologist, to which periodical the Club is deeply indebted for the faithful preservation of its records through a long number of years.

Dr. Hopkins gave an account of his preliminary survey, during the past summer, of the forest regions of different sections of the country to determine the primary enemies of forest trees and locate the areas of principal depredations. Between July and November he was in 27 States and two territories. His first trip was made through the South-eastern States, to determine the area of a recent outbreak of Dendroctonus frontalis. He found in the southern Appalachian region that this, one of the most destructive insects of American coniferous forests, was commencing its ravages as it did a few years previous to the great devastation wrought by it in the Virginias.

Aleurodes Marlatti, n. sp.

Egg.— Size about. 1 mm. × .2 mm., exclusive of stalk, which is quite short, holding egg in upright position of leaf; regularly elliptical in outline. Colour, dirty yellowish brown, as seen on leaf; under transmitted light, yellowish. Shell without markings or sculpturing of any kind.

Larva.— Broadly elliptical. Colour, except in first stage which is yellowish, brownish to brownish black, varying in some specimens to an iridescent blue black; in later stages, margined all around with a short, rather squarely-trimmed, white waxy secretion, from the marginal wax tubes.

Of the two Coccidæ now described, the first is the type of a very peculiar new genus; the other is a very beautiful and interesting lac-insect.

Stictococcus, n. g. —An aberrant genus of Lecaniinæ, with the anal orifice in the middle of the back, not connected with the hind margin by a slit or groove. Anal ring with six hairs in larva; none in adult. Anal plates so modified in adult as to be unrecognizable. Legs small, but well developed. Antennæ with 5 or 6 joints. Margin with long bristles, and flattened bifid or palmate plates or spines. Dorsum with numerous large pits.

All of the species described in the following pages belong to genera which are of small extent or have been recently monographed, and it is hoped that no confusion will result from their publication. The types are in my own collection, and unless otherwise credited, were captured by myself.

In Dr. David Sharp's “Zoological Record, Insects," 1901, I find in the list of my publications of that year, under the title, 1449, “On some genera of Staphylinidæ described by Thos. L. Casey,” the following note: “Casey replies to this, l.c. pp. 312, 313.”

As I do not receive American journals here, I tried to get the respective nos. of the Canadian Entomologist from one of my friends. Being informed now of the contents of Major Casey's “reply,” I understand why he did not send it to me, although I had sent him a copy of my critic paper “On some genera of Staphylinidæ” already, Nov. 2nd, 1901.

Length,.35 inch. Head dark fawn colour, scabrous, much prolonged between the antennæ, the prolongation suggestive of the nose of the moose. Eyes upon rounded elevations, black and protuberant. The antennary spine stout, sharp and projecting. Antennæ reddish brown above, olivaceous beneath; the joint next the spine distinct and square cut and of greater diameter than that following it. Beak black, long, extending between the front legs. Prothorax dark umber in colour, concave in front, the concavity ending on either side with a short spine. From the bases of these spinse the sides (which are finely denticulated) run direct to the widest part of the prothorax; from thence they are rounded to the back, forming a pair of clay-yellow epaulets, which extend beyond the slightly-curved remainder of the back line.

Eulepiste Kearfotti, n. sp.

Gray, with a reddish ochreous tint, brighter in an obscure streak beyond cell and on submedian fold. A series of black strigæ along the costa and on fringe; a small dash beyond cell, and an oblique bar in submedian fold beyond middle. Hind wing blackfish, fringe long, pale, interlined with blackish. Below, blackish, with a pale line at the base of the fringe. Expanse, 22 mm.

Two males from Mr. W.D. Kearfott's collection, “Yuma Co., Ariz. Desert.”

Larger than the other species of Eculepiste, and differing in the genitalia, Uncus a single long spine, curving downward, opposed to a broad, concave basal plate. Side pieces strap-shaped or slightly concave, curved downward, and with a distinct spine on the lower angle.

In Sir George Hampson's volume on the Syntomids, Cat. Lep. Phalænæ, Vol. I., London 1898, Ctenucha Cressonana is referred as a synonym to C. venosa, but erroneously so. Both species inhabit our Nort American territory, but C. venosa has the wider and more southern range, extending probably from Arizona, through Mexico, into South America. I know C. Cressonana from Colorado and New Mexico only; this larger form is also variable in the colors of the stripes of the wing, whereas C. venosa is quite constant, so far as the examples I have been able to examine are concerned.

Nisoniades Llano, n.sp.

Expanse about one inch. Primaries with inner to two-thirds black, marked by a triangular brown patch near base, resting on internal margin; a large similarly-coloured patch at outer end of cell, touching the costa, and bordered by a pale-brown line, which, starting from the costa about one-third of the distance from the apex, curves outward opposite the discal cell, and runs diagonally across to about the middle of the inner margin, and is twinned at its lower extremity by a similar line, which precedes it, and extends from inner margin to just across the median vein.