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scarcely as long as III legs, one long bristle on next to last joint, and two 

 at tip of last joint, the inner one longer than the joint ; body with a bristle 

 each side slightly before the middle, and one each side near the tip. Body 

 Ccf ) rather quadrate; venter with a transverse line on middle, and a yoke- 

 shaped mark; legs I, II, and III subequal, rather shorter and stouter than 

 those of the 9 ; IV pair shorter and stouter, at tip of body, tipped with 

 two stout claws, the outer one the larger and longer, and two bristles, the 

 outer one much the longer. 



Length 9 1 - 1 mm. $ .75 mm. 



On leaves of chrysanthemums in a greenhouse near Jamaica, 

 N. Y. 



Mr. Cook, under the title of "A New Family of Diplopoda " 

 from Alabama,* described Desmonus earli, and the new family 

 Desmonidae. 



At 10 o'clock the Society adjourned. 



MARCH 3, 1898. 



VIce-President Gill occupied the chair, and Messrs. Benton, 

 Schwarz, Dyar, Ashmead, Busck, Currie, Heidemann, Stiles, 

 Kenyon, Pratt. Marlatt, and Howard were also present. 



The Chairman announced the death of the only Honorary Mem 

 ber of the Society, Professor Rudolf Leuckart. The Secretary 

 was authorized to express the sympathy of the Society to Mrs. 

 Leuckart. 



Dr. Stiles moved that the Chairman appoint a committee to 

 protest to the International Committee on Zoological Nomen 

 clature against the majority report of that committee and in favor 

 of the minority report. The motion was carried, and the Chair 

 man appointed Messrs. Ashmead, Schwarz, and Howard. On 

 motion, Dr. Stiles was appointed to represent the Society at the 

 meeting of the International Committee. 



Mr. Ashmead was nominated Vice-President of the Wash 

 ington Academy of Sciences for the Entomological Society. 



Mr. Schwarz exhibited specimens of the larva?, pupa, and 

 imago of a very little known Coccinellid beetle, Thalassa monte- 

 zumce, and read the following abstract of a letter from Mr. H. G. 

 Hubbard, dated Wilcox, Arizona, May 27, 1897, regarding its 

 food habits and economic importance : 



* Included in a paper entitled " American Oniscoid Diplopoda of the 

 Order Merocheta," and published in Proc. U. S. Nat. Museum, 1898. 



