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trated the danger of depending on color for the identification of 

 species or for characterization. In this case it was especially 

 notable because the San Jose scale is, as a rule, rather uniform 

 in its colorational features. 



Then Dr. Howard, under the title " Gossip about a European 

 Trip, more or less entomological," gave a rapid but entertaining 

 outline, illustrated by numerous photographs, of his travels in 

 Europe during the past summer, particularly in France, Italy, 

 Austria, Germany and Holland. He gave his impressions of the 

 various entomological and other scientific institutions visited, of 

 their work and of the workers themselves. Among many items of 

 interest may be mentioned his account of the precautions taken 

 in the malaria-infested regions of Italy to protect the inhabitants 

 from mosquitoes. 



At the conclusion of Dr. Howard's talk, Mr. Schwarz asked 

 him if he agreed with the statement which Mr. Marlatt had made 

 upon returning from his European trip, that injurious insects 

 were much less numerous in Europe than in our country. Dr. 

 Howard replied that he did, most emphatically. 



Mr. Caudell presented the following paper for publication : 



SOME NEW OR UNRECORDED ORTHOPTERA FROM 

 ARIZONA. 



By A. N. CAUDELL. 



In a collection of seventeen species of Orthoptera, received 

 from Dr. R. E. Kunze, of Phoenix, Arizona, occur two new 

 species and a few others of considerable interest by reason of 

 their rarity or by their having been previously unrecorded from 

 that Territory. Following is a list of the species represented, 

 together with descriptions of those which are new. 



Orphulella compta Scudd. 

 Ligurotettix kunzei sp. nov. 



Head large; fastigum moderately sulcate, more so in the male, very 

 slightly carinate centrally, or there tumescent; lateral foveolae quadrate; 

 frontal costa flat, very slightly sulcate .-just below the ocellus, broad, 

 nearly as wide as the interspace between the eyes. Eyes prominent, a 

 little elongate, slightly longer than the infraocular part of the gense. 

 Antennae slightly thickening clistally, apically acuminate, longer than 

 the head and pronotum. Pronotum widening irregularly from in front 

 backwards, obtusangulate behind, subtruncate in front; median carinse 



