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In accordance with a formal announcement made at the pre 

 ceding meeting, Article 6 of the Constitution was amended to 

 read as follows : 



ARTICLE VI. 



The regular meetings of the Society shall be held, unless other 

 wise ordered, on the first Thursday of each month. The annual 

 meeting for the election of officers and the delivery of the 

 presidential address shall be the regular meeting for the month 

 of December. The terms of office shall begin January ist. 

 Special and field meetings may be called by the Executive Com 

 mittee. 



The first paper of the evening was by Mr. Ashmead, entitled : 



NOTES ON THE GENUS ENICOCEPHALUS WESTWOOD, AND 

 DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES FROM UTAH. 



By WM. H. ASHMEAD. 



In the Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 

 Vol. II (1837) ' P' 22 > P r f' J- O. Westwood described a new and 

 remarkable heteropterous genus, Enicocephalus, which has sub 

 sequently been overlooked by hemipterists. 



Dr. Carl Stal does not mention it in his Enumeratio Hemip- 

 terorum, published in 1872, in which the genera of the Rcduviidcz, 

 the family to which the genus belongs, are tabulated, nor does 

 Prof. Philip Uhler include it in his " Check List" of the Hemip- 

 tera of North America, published in 1886, which includes the 

 fauna of the West Indies, so that I am constrained to believe the 

 genus was overlooked by these authorities. 



In the publication referred to, Westwood very fully character 

 ized the genus and described four species as follows : 



(1) Enicocephalus flavicollis, from St. Vincent, W. I. 



(2) Enicocephalus basalts, from Gum anime. 



(3) Enicocephalus fulvescens, also from Gum anime. 



(4) Enicocephalus tasmanicus, from Van Dieman's Land. 

 The genus, although rare, has therefore a wide geographical 



distribution. So far as I know, no species has been described 

 since Westwood's characterization of the genus fifty-five years 

 ago ; indeed, the genus appears totally unknown to all our modern 

 entomologists. 



The genus was recognized in some St. Vincent material sent to 

 Dr. C. V. Riley to be worked up for the British Museum, by 

 the identification of E. flavicollis. It is also gratifying to me to 



