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dian," to note that it should be removed to another genus from 

 Tryxalis the one in which it was described. In characterizing 

 the genus Rhadinotatum, McNeill states that the posterior tibia 

 has about 25 spines on the outer margin, and this has since been 

 used as a synoptic character by Scudder and Bruner. Mr. 

 Caudell had examined fifteen specimens, including the types, 

 and found the usual number to be about 18, the greatest number 

 found being only 21. 



Dr. Ashmead remarked that Rhadinotatum belongs io a group 

 which is less abundant in the North than in the South. He had 

 found similar forms in Florida and always in low-lying grassy 

 land. Mr. Kotinsky stated that his specimens were likewise 

 found in low grassy land. He said that the insects depended upon 

 protective coloration for concealment, and if one observed care 

 fully the spot where they alighted on the grass blades they could 

 readily be picked up with the fingers. 



Mr. Knab further noted for Mr. Caudell that Dr. Howard 

 had collected a <$ of Trimerotropis filosa McNeill, in Mexico. 

 The species was described from California and this is the first 

 record of it since its description. 



Dr. Ashmead reported the receipt of two more sendings of 

 Philippine Hymenoptera from Manila, one from Father W. A. 

 Stanton and the other from Father Robert Brown. The new 

 forms contained in these sendings will increase the list of species 

 additional to those already recorded as occurring in the Philip 

 pines to 43.* He mentioned several of these among them a 

 little Entedonid belonging to the genus Closterocerzis of West- 

 wood. Mr. Ashmead said he considered it remarkable that 

 Father Stanton had found so many species, and new ones at that, 

 since all his collections had been made in the gardens of the ob 

 servatory in Manila. It indicated, however, what a vast num 

 ber of undiscovered species there must be in the Philippine 

 Islands and what a wealth of material might be secured from a 

 thorough collecting exploration of the surrounding country. 



Mr. Kotinsky stated that during the summer of 1903 six or 

 eight colonies of the Asiatic ladybird ( Chilocorus similis Rossi) 

 were introduced by the Department of Agriculture into various 



*InJourn. N. Y. Ent- Soc f , xn, No. i, pp. 1-22, March, 1904. 



