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angles of the hind lobe very slightly curved, the lateral margins oblique, 

 the posterior margin a little sinuate within; scutellum large, triangular; 

 metathorax quadrate. Elytra membranaceous, subhyaline, with a distinct 

 venation, and a stigma not unlike a saw-fly. Front legs very much 

 swollen; the tibiae much dilated toward apex; the apical edge surrounded 

 with seven short, stout teeth ; tarsi very short, 2-jointed, ending in two 

 long, black claws, the inner claw the longer; middle and hind legs 

 slender, their tarsi 3-jointed. Abdomen sessile, depressed, oblong-oval, 

 pilose, testaceous. 



Hab. Utah Lake, Utah. 



Types in Coll. Ashmead and Heidemann. 



Discovered by Mr. E. A. Schwarz. 



In the discussion that followed, Mr. Schwarz said that he was 

 quite certain that the same species of Enicocephalus occurred 

 also near Washington, D. C., since he had found two specimens 

 someyears ago in a meadow on the Virginia side of the Potomac. 

 In Utah it occurred at the shores of Great Salt Lake and Utah 

 Lake, under stones, old leaves, etc. Prof. Riley asked if the 

 species was not clearly allied to Anthocoris. Mr. Ashmead 

 replied that the relationship was quite close, pointing out the 

 connecting characters. Mr. Hubbard stated that he believed he 

 had seen the same insect in the mountains of Montana and in 

 the Yellowstone Park, which indicated that the species was a 

 widely distributed one. Mr. Heidemann reported that he had 

 not yet found it about Washington. 



Mr. Mally then read a short note on Micromus insipidus. 

 At Holly Springs, Miss., pupae of this Hemerobiid were found, 

 late in September and October, between the involucres and bolls 

 of cotton. At this time some adults were issuing, and this proved 

 to be true also of the pupae collected, for they hatched a few days 

 later. The pupae could easily be observed through the rather 

 sparse webbing of white silken threads loosely woven about them. 

 The larvae found upon cotton fed for the most part upon the plant- 

 lice infesting this host-plant. Mr. Ashmead stated that he had 

 reared what was probably the same insect from the egg in 

 Florida. He had found it feeding on aphids on the orange, and 

 pointed out the distinguishing characters between it and Hemer- 

 obius. Prof. Riley asked if the egg was pedicellate as in Hem- 



