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myrmecophilous Runchomyia wellmani, mosquitoes, and tse-tse 

 flies were all touched upon. Beetles (of which a large collec- 

 tion was made) came next. The stinging larvae of a mala- 

 coderon (Drilus) and of an elaterid (Tctralobus} were first 

 mentioned. Zographus jerox was spoken of as a common 

 article of food, together with large buprestids. One of these 

 latter (Psiloptera tnonstruosa} , of very remarkable appear- 

 ance, was commented upon. The tiger beetles and the blister 

 beetles were specially discussed in relation to geographical 

 distribution and general biological conditions in the region. 

 Numerous species of Hymenoptera were referred to. Formi- 

 dable social wasps (Belonogaster guerini, Polistes fastidiosus, 

 etc.) and some large species of Scolia, Salius, etc., were de- 

 scribed. Many bees, a majority of them new, were collected. 

 The existence of mites (Paragrcenia) in an abdominal pouch 

 of a carpenter bee was reported. The address closed with 

 some notes on the habits of certain ants, Camponotus zvell- 

 mani, Pheidole punctulata, Polyrhachis militaris, and Palto- 

 thyreus tarsatus. 



Doctor Howard introduced Dr. F. B. Smith, Director of the 

 Transvaal Department of Agriculture. Doctor Smith told of 

 the great debt that the other countries owe to the United States 

 for the progress in economic entomology, and also spoke of 

 the excellent work of the late Mr. C. B. Simpson, a former 

 member of this Society, who started the entomological work 

 of the Transvaal Department of Agriculture and the Inter- 

 Colonial Locust Bureau of South Africa. 



-Mr. Charles R. Ely presented the following paper and 

 exhibited specimens of the adults of the species treated and of 

 some closely related species : 



DESCRIPTIONS OF TWO NEW SPECIES OF 



ACROBASIS. 



[Lepidoptera, Pyralidse.] 



BY CHARLES R. ELY. 



Among some specimens of the genus Acrobasis taken by the 

 writer at East River, Conn., were a few which are pronounced 



