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Eunotus lividus sp. n. 



9- Length, 1.5 mm. Blue-black, closely punctate, finely sericeous; 

 head broad, the occiput broadly concave, the occipital margin sharp; lat 

 eral ocelli a little nearer to the inner margin of the eye than to the front 

 ocellus; eyes oval; antennae u-jointed (with a ring-joint which is difficult 

 to see), inserted just above the mouth, clavate, the funiclar joints trans 

 verse, submoniliform ; wings hyaline ; tegulaepiceous ; venation paleb:own, 

 the submarginal vein reaching the costa at about the middle of the wing, the 

 marginal vein about twice the length of the stigmal ; post marginal and 

 stigmal veins equal ; mesonotum very short, about three times as wide as 

 long, with sharply defined parapsidal furrows ; pronotum distinct but 

 somewhat shorter than the mesonotum: scutellum large convex, with 

 small triangular axillae; abdomen oval, sessile, about as long as the head 

 and thorax united, polished, impunctured, the first segment occupying 

 nearly its whole surface; legs dark brown or blackish, with the trochant- 

 ers, knees, apices of the tibise and the tarsi, except the terminal joint, 

 honey-yellow, 



Hab. Near Savannah, Georgia. 



Type 9- In U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 



Mr. Banks exhibited a male specimen of Loxosceles (family 

 Scytodidae), which had but six developed legs; the other two 

 were present in the form of greatly aborted coxae. 



Dr. Marx showed a peculiar species of the Araneid genus 

 Theridium from California, in which the mandibles of the male 

 were as long as the whole cephalothorax. 



Dr. Stiles made some remarks on a Liver Fluke story that was 

 circulating in certain papers ; this story stated that the young 

 stages were passed in the house-fly, whereas they are passed in 

 snails. 



Mr. Mally read the following paper : 



AN INSECTIVOROUS PRIMROSE. 

 ( (Enothera spectosa. ) 



BY F. W. MALLY. 



While making some observations in a corn field near woods at 

 Shreveport, La., May 16, the following facts concerning the 

 above-named species were noted. I had never collected this 

 species before, and a number of the flowers were plucked for 

 examination. The styles and stigmas of the full-blown flowers 

 were loaded with small Diptera, some of which were yet alive. 



