44 ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



/'*' JUNE 4, 1896. 



President Marlatt in the chair and Messrs. Benton, Patten, 

 Stiles, Busck, Ashmead, Schwarz, Howard, Gill, Vaughan, 

 Judd, Heiclemann, and M. G. Motter and F. S. Chapin also 

 present. 



Dr. M. G. Motter was elected an active member of the Society. 



Under the head of exhibition of specimens, Mr. Ashmead 

 showed a specimen of the genus Cardiochiles of Nees, which he 

 had obtained from Schmiedeknecht, and stated that he found 

 it to be identical with Say's genus Toxoneura. It will replace 

 Say's genus and be a type of a subfamily distinct from the 

 Microgasterinae. He also showed a wasp collected by Mrs. 

 Slosson at Lake Worth, Fla., which is extremely minute and 

 which will form the type of a new r genus of Larridae. He \\ 7 ill 

 call the new genus Nitelopterus. 



Mr. Howard exhibited a specimen of an adult and cocoon 

 of Attacus jorulla Westwood, and stated that the cocoon had 

 been received from an apothecary in Monterey, Mexico, with the 

 statement that the natives hung them about their necks to prevent 

 the growth of beard. 



Mr. Schwarz exhibited specimens of Atimia confusa Say, 

 a Longicorn beetle, previously taken in the Lake Superior region, 

 in the District of Columbia, and in northern Texas, but whose 

 food-habits were not previously recorded. The speaker and 

 Mr. Hubbard had recently ascertained that it attacks Juniper in 

 the District of Columbia. 



Mr. Schwarz also exhibited specimens of Lachnosterna 

 cribrosa Lee. from Texas. He spoke at some length on the 

 habits of the species, showing that it feeds on the ground, does 

 not climb, comes out before dark, and is a serious enemy of 

 garden vegetables. There seems to be two parallel series of 

 broods, one issuing later than the other. The species can be 

 checked by ditching, since it is wingless. 



Mr. Marlatt presented a communication entitled " Notes on 

 Texas Insects," relating to some of the common insects of south 

 western Texas which came to his notice in the course of a trip 

 in that region in the latter part of April and the first of May. 

 He reports that the collecting was poor, owing to the occurrence 



