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[February. 



tinctly constricted as in Ditylus at the middle. The labrum and base of the 

 mandibles are reddish ; and the thorax is ferruginous, exhibiting a violet tinge at 

 the middle of the disc, where there is an indistinct smooth space. 



(Edemera vestita Say, Journ. Acad. 3, 273. Missouri. Unknown to me. 



(Edemera erythrocephala Germ. Ins. Nov. 167. Kentucky; probably 

 A sclera, but unknown to me. 



Ischnomera unicolor Mels. Proc. Acad. 3, 54, is very similar and per- 

 haps identical with the European Asclera ccerulea. 



' Dryops rufifrons, cyanea, capite thoraceque rufis.' Fabr. Ent. Syst. 1, 

 2, 76; Syst. El. 2, 68. Unknown to me. 



A letter was read from Wm. Parker Foulke, Esq., dated February 

 3d, 1854, accepting the appointment to deliver an Address before the 

 Academy on the 21st of March next, the anniversary of its foundation. 



Mr. Vaux, on behalf of the Publication Committee, reported the pub- 

 lication of Part 4, Yol. 2, new series, of the Journal. 



The Report of the Corresponding Secretary was read and adopted. 



Mr. Vaux read a letter from Prof. J. Lawrence Smith, dated Wash- 

 ington, Dec. 20th, 1854, transmitting a portion of a highly interesting 

 Meteorite from Tennessee, and asking in exchange fragments of Me- 

 teorites in the Cabinet of the Academy, for analysis. 



Referred to the Committee on Mineralogy. 



ELECTION. 



George Harding, Esq. and Fairman Rogers, Esq., of Philadelphia, 

 Dr. Thomas J. Turner, U. S. Navy, and George Dock, M. D., of 

 Harrisburg, were elected Members; and Charles Enderlin, M, D,, of 

 New York, was elected a Correspondent. 



