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Pollard, Schwarz, Benton, Caudell, Howard, Heidemann, Mor 

 ris, Patten and Currie, members, and Messrs. Cundiff and 

 Warner, visitors, were also present. 



Mr. Heidemann reported that he had collected, during last 

 June and July, near Brightwood, D. C., two Fulgorids new to 

 the District of Columbia, Phylloscelis pallescens Germar and 

 P. atra Germar. Of the former species but one specimen was 

 collected, but of the latter quite a series. Mr. Heidemann re 

 marked that pallescens possessed venational differences from the 

 other species of the genus, sufficient, he thought, to justify erect 

 ing for it a new genus. 



Mr. Schwarz mentioned that during his recent collecting 

 trip in Arizona he had frequently come across accumulations of 

 insect eggs under- the bark of old pine stumps. At Flagstaff, 

 Arizona, he found one such mass containing about one hundred 

 eggs. These subsequently hatched into larva? of some longicorn, 

 but what species it was difficult to say. There seemed to be but 

 one longicorn beetle active there at that time, a Criocephalus 

 which was observed in abundance under the bark running 

 around and copulating. It seemed improbable that the eggs 

 were laid the year before. They might belong to the Crioceph 

 alus though they seemed rather too large for a beetle of that size. 

 A specimen mass of the eggs was exhibited. 



Mr. Caudell stated that the type of the grasshopper Eritettix 

 simplex Scudder, which has been lost sight of for some time, 

 has lately been found by Mr. James A. G. Rehn of Philadelphia. 

 Specimens collected by Mr. H. S. Barber in Arizona, on com 

 parison with the type, have proved to be this species which 

 must, therefore, be restored to our lists. 



Mr. Warner exhibited a twig of some plant, bearing a large 

 number of seed vessels which were infested by some insect. 

 The insects' holes of emergence seemed to be all on one side of 

 the twig, and Mr. Warner wondered what side of the plant, 

 bright or shady, was most favorable for their development. Mr. 

 Schwarz said that in Arizona insects seemed to work perferably 

 on the southeast side of plants and trees. He did no know, how 

 ever, why such was the case. 



Dr. Hopkins showed specimens of the work of a bark beetle 

 (Phlceosinus cupressi Hopkins, n. sp., MS.) in broken 



