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Wahlbergia Zetterstedt, Dipt. Scand., Ill, 1223-1224. (1844.) Ne 

 braska ; Indiana (Say, Ocypterd] ; District of Columbia. Larval habits 

 unknown. 



The habits of Uromyia* and Gymnopeza, genera of Phaniid<z, are 

 known. Boheman bred the European U. curvicauda from larvae which 

 lived parasitically in the bodies of Harpalus aulicus and H. ruficornis ; 

 and a species of Gymnozega supposed to be identical with G, denudata 

 Zett. was bred by Mr. v. Tacchetti from the body of a Carabus scheidleri, 

 which he had found dead in a highw r ay (Schiner). 



It is also remarkable that none of the Phaniidce have been 

 reported from Mexico or Central America, although represent 

 atives of them have been described from South America. 



NOVEMBER 6TH, 1890. 



Fourteen persons present. President Marx in the chair. 



Mr. Erwin F. Smith was elected an active member of the 

 Society. 



Under exhibition of specimens and notes, Mr. Schwarz ex 

 hibited a larva of the genus Carabus, with singularly deformed 

 maxillary palpi. The right palpus is normally formed except 

 that the suture between the first and second joints is nearly 

 obliterated ; the left palpus is only three-jointed, with the 

 joints nearly transverse, as in Calosoma. This remarkable 

 larva, apparently a full-grown specimen, was found early in 

 September near Washington, D. C. 



Mr. Marlatt presented the following : 



*The genus Uromyia w r as described by Meigen in 1838 for a Phaniid. 

 Robineau Desvoidy had already described (1830) his genus Uramya for a 

 Dexiid, a species of which, U. producta R. D., originally from South 

 America, is recorded from Central America by Brauer and v. Bergen - 

 stamm, who spell the genus the same as Meigen's (Muse, schiz., 130). 

 These two genera should not be confounded ; it w r ould be well for some 

 European author to substitute another name for Meigen's genus, which 

 does not occur in this countrv. C. H. T. T. 



