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President and both Vice-Presidents, Mr. Patten presided, and 

 there were also present Messrs. Gill, Marlatt, Benton, Currie, War 

 ner, Barber, Doolittle, Simpson, Dyar, Kotinsky, Howard, Pol 

 lard and Ashmead. 



Mr. Ashmead was elected Vice-President of the Washington 

 Academy of Sciences for the Entomological Society. 



Mr. Ashmead exhibited both sexes of two species of wasps 

 from Chile, from the collection of Mr. E. C. Reed. The first 

 was labeled Agenia xanthopus Spinola. Both male and female 

 possess very short wings. This species is a synonym of Poiu- 

 pi'tusg-ravesiiHaliday and will fall into the genus Sphictostethus 

 of Kohl. The other species shown was Cosila chilensis Spinola, 

 the type of Mr. Ashmead's family Cosilidag. Mr. Ashmead 

 pointed out that the genus Cosila could not belong to the Scoliidse 

 on account of important differences in venation, and because the 

 hypopygium of the male is unarmed. 



Dr. Dyar exhibited specimens of a new genus and species of 

 Geometridae, and presented descriptions as follows: 



A NEW GENUS AND SPECIES OF GEOMETRIDAE. 

 By HARRISON G. DVAR. 



Hulstina, n. gen. 



Male antennae bipectinate, the pectinations shortening at the apex, the 

 last three or four small joints without pectinations, but no distinct bare 

 tip; of female short, serrate. Wings without perceptible fovea below in 

 either sex; hind tibiae of male not enlarged, without hair pencil; two 

 pairs of spurs. Palpi short, scaled, tongue obsolete, front smooth. 

 Thorax and abdomen smooth, scaled, tip of male abdomen slightly tufted. 

 Venation as described by Hulst for sEthalodes, with which this seems to 

 coincide, but the name ^thalodes is a homonym, having been used by 

 Krieschbaumer in 1890, as pointed out to me by Professor Cockerel 1. 



Hulstina terlineata, n. sp. 



Resembles Alcts obliquarta Grt., but is even more like Cleora formo- 

 sata Hulst, as identified for me by Dr. Hulst; but that species has a dis 

 tinct tongue. 



Whitish gray, sprinkled with black; abdominal segments edged with 

 white behind. T. a. line black, oblique, preceded by a light brown band, 

 not reaching costa. Median line faint, oblique, present only on the inner 

 half of the wing in the restricted median space; a small black discal dot. 

 T. p. line black, oblique, curved a little, from the middle of the inner 

 margin to the outer fourth of costa, which it does not quite attain ; edged 



