24 ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 
Mr. Schwarz exhibited specimens of a Ptinid beetle (Nip- 
tus hololeucus Faldermann) received from Prof. James Fletcher, 
Entomologist of the Canadian Government, who reported that 
it was a great nuisance in houses in Montreal. He stated that 
some years ago 1 he had published the prediction that the im- 
portation into America of this omnivorous beetle was only a 
question of time. He reviewed the literature on the beetle in 
reference to its distribution and economic importance. 
Dr. Ashmead announced that the National Museum had 
received from Father Robert Brown of Manila some Philippine 
fig-insects (Agaonidae) the first fig-insects to be recorded from 
the Philippine Islands. They fall in the Australian genus Kra- 
dibia. With them were specimens of the inquilinous or para- 
sitic Idarnines belonging to the genus Sycoryctes, first described 
from Java. 
Dr. Ashmead stated, further, that in a collection of insects 
from Mr. Charles S. Banks, the Entomologist of the Philippines, 
were specimens of Hymenoptera belonging to Oxybelus and 
Prosopis two genera not before on record from the Philippine 
Islands. Another addition to the list of Philippine Hymen- 
optera from the same source is the nearly cosmopolitan ant 
Solenopsis geminata Fabr. 
Dr. Hopkins exhibited a branch of juniper from Vermijo, 
New Mexico, showing the work of a new Scolytid beetle belong- 
ing to the genus Phloeosinus. The tree, from which the branch 
was cut on May 6, 1903, was felled during the summer of 1902. 
Live beetles were noticed on the branch on July 24 of the pres- 
ent year, and now, one year and seven months after the branch 
was collected, some of the beetles are still alive and running 
about. 
Mr. Heidemann showed specimens of Hemiptera belonging 
to the genus Homalocoris, and probably representing the Mexican 
species guttatus of Walker, collected at Flagstaff, Arizona, during 
the past season by Mr. Webb. There are now in the National 
Museum collection ten specimens from Arizona of this interest- 
ing species. The first of these were found by Mr. H. G. Hub- 
bard in the Chiricahua Mountains ; later it was collected by Mr. 
'Can. Ent., xxvnr, p. 178, 1896. 
