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trip from which Mr. Laurent and he had just returned, it em- 

 braced their experience up to their arrival at Enterprise, Fla., 

 from which place they returned to Jacksonville; the doctor re- 

 turning home and Mr. Laurent continuing on to Gulf Hammock, 

 Fla. The doctor exhibited, by request, some of the Coleoptera 

 captured, he having otherwise intended deferring the exhibition 

 of the same until he had completed mounting the entire collec- 

 tion. Mr. Laurent also exhibited the dragon flies taken, and a 

 number of interesting photographs of incidents and localities 

 visited. The success of the trip can only be ascertained when 

 the whole of the collection is carefully gone over and mounted, 

 as they have gathered quite a variety and quantity of material. 



The next meeting will be postponed until the return of Mr. 

 Wenzel from the South. 



No further business being presented the meeting adjourned at 

 10.30 P.M. to partake of a sumptuous banquet provided by Mrs. 

 Castle, at whose request the meeting was held at the doctor's 

 residence in welcome of the return of the collectors from Florida. 



THEO. H. SCHMITZ, Secretary. 



Th.e Entornologica.1 Section 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



PROCEEDINGS OF MEETINGS. 



The following papers were read and accepted by the Committee for 

 publication in ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS : 



A NEW GENUS OF HIPPOBOSCID/E. 



ByS. W. WILLISTON. 



BRACHYPTEROMYIA. gen. nov. 



Allied to Oxypterum Leach (Anapera Meigen, Chelidomyia 

 pt. Rond.), but the wings rudimentary and functionless. An- 

 tennae inserted laterally, porrect, projecting nearly as far forward 

 as the proboscis, subcylindrical, the distal portion clothed with 

 long black hair. Eyes very small, oval, situated on the sides of 

 the head; ocelli wholly wanting. Legs stout; claws tridentate; 

 pulvilli elongate; empodium slender. Abdomen narrow ();. 

 hypopygium protruding, subcylindrical, and moderately dilated 

 distally. Wings rudimentary, scale-like, subtriangular in shape, 



