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In the Coleoptera many species of the circumpolar fauna are 

 common to both countries. Mr. Ashmead replied that the reason 

 for this is that the Micro-Hymenoptera have not been carefully 

 studied and compared with the European forms. As a matter 

 of fact, however, he knows 25 species which occur on both con 

 tinents, and a number of others which are probably identical with 

 European forms. For example, he knows one of Cresson's spe 

 cies of Cryptus to be identical with an European species, and 3 

 or 4 Pteromalinae and Encyrtince, as well as some of the Aphid 

 parasites. 



Mr. Schwarz exhibited two European Coleoptera recently 

 found for the first time in North America, viz., Attagenus 

 schaejferi, from Wyoming, and Lathridius hirtus, from Mon 

 tana. He also exhibited specimens of Cartodere ivatsoni, origi 

 nally described from Madeira, which now occurs rather com 

 monly about the U. S. Department of Agriculture in Washing 

 ton, D. C. It was first noticed some years ago in a sack of 

 Lepidoptera from Alaska, which, however, had been stored for 

 some time in San Francisco. Since that time it has been found 

 every year in the buildings of the Department. He also exhibited 

 a photograph of the Natural Bridge, Arizona, the locality in 

 which the very beautiful Coleopteron Plusiotis gloriosa has 

 been found in considerable numbers. He suggested that this in 

 sect probably feeds upon grape, and asked Mr. Fernow, who 

 spent the summer in Arizona, to describe the region. 



Mr. Fernow gave some details as to the geography of the re 

 gion, which, he said, afforded a wonderful collecting ground. 

 For example, he counted 100 species of trees and shrubs while 

 passing over the bridge. There are, as a matter of fact, grape 

 vines growing on the bridge. 



Mr. Howard exhibited specimens of his Coccophagzis ori- 

 entalis originally described from specimens reared from scale- 

 insects in Ceylon, by Mr. E. Ernest Green, and stated, apropos 

 to the use of geographic specific names, that this oriental species, 

 one week after its description was published, was reared by 

 Prof. H. A. Morgan, in Louisiana, from a local scale-insect, 

 Lecanium hesperidum, and that there was no evidence of the 

 plants upon which it occurred having been imported. 



