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the Philadelphia Academy, for the reason that it was familiar to 
most of the members present. 
Mr. Howard also presented the following table, showing the 
recorded rearings of Hymenopterous parasites, in the principal 
European lists, and drew particular attention to the preponder- 
ance of the Lepidoptera over other orders, and stated that this 
was probably not so much due to the fact that the Lepidoptera 
were more extensively parasitized, as to the obvious fact that their 
early stages had been more extensively studied, and that more 
species had been reared in vivaria : 
Hosts. Hymen, parasites. 
1. Orthoptera .... 4 
2. Unplaced insects ... 4 
3. Thysanura .... 4 
4. Neuroptera . ., . . 12 
5. Arachnida .... 42 
6. Miscellaneous . ' . . . -62 
7. Hemiptera .... 203 
8. Diptera 301 
9. Coleoptera .... 359 
10. Hymenoptera .... 748 
11. Lepidoptera .... 1578 
Total (distinct records) . . ^ 3317 
NOVEMBER 3, 1887. 
Nine persons present. President Howard in the chair. 
Messrs. W. B. Alwood, C. H. T. Townsend, and Dr. Wm. H. 
Fox were elected members of the society. 
Mr. Schwarz read the following paper : 
ON THE INSECTS FOUND ON UNIOLA PANICULATA IN SOUTHEASTERN 
FLORIDA. 
BY E A. SCHWAKZ. 
Uniola panic ulata is an ornamental grass commonly known as " Sea- 
oats." and very abundant at the ocean beach in Florida, where the plant 
reaches a height of from five to seven feet. Toward the beginning of June 
of this year I had the good fortune to visit several times the beach opposite 
Lake Worth, in southeastern Florida and my attention was then attracted 
by several insect depredators on this Uniola disfiguring and thinning out 
