1896.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 255 



interest and greatest importance. From a scientific standpoint 

 it is a necessity, and the Academy is to be congratulated upon 

 having a man so well able to do it as Mr. Fuchs. His work will 

 not only benefit present students, but will form a basis upon 

 which future study of the species now arranged may rest. 



No further business being presented the meeting adjourned to 

 the annex. THEO. H. SCHMITZ, Secretary. 



The Entomological Section 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



PROCEEDINGS OF MEETINGS. 



The following paper was read and accepted by the Committee for 

 publication in ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS : 



THE SEVENTY-SECOND PERDITA. 



By T. D. A. COCKERELL. 



Perdita maculigera n. sp. $. Length 5 mm., pale primrose-yellow 

 with black markings. Head fairly large, subquadrate, broader than 

 long ; cheeks unarmed, with a beard of white hairs beneath ; eyes pale 

 pea-green ; antennae yellow beneath, black above ; head yellow with 

 these black markings, the usual anteorbital dots, a large irregularly 

 square black patch above each antenna?, sending a line from its inner 

 upper angle to the middle ocellus, a patch connecting the ocelli, an 

 obliquely placed large oval spot, touching and sending a very narrow line 

 along the orbit, barely separate from the lateral ocelli, and the black 

 occipital region. Thorax yellow with these black markings, a trans- 

 verse mark on collar, a small mark on tubercles and a small mark just 

 below, a large basal patch on pleura and a streak beneath the wings, tin- 

 mesothorax except the lateral margin and a pair of longitudinal yellow 

 stripes, the scutellum except the hind margin irregularly, the postscu- 

 tellum, and the dorsum of metathorax except a large yellow patch some- 

 what tritid behind; tubercles colorless with an opaque yellow spot. Wings 

 hyaline, iridescent, nervures brown; stigma very peculiar, its basal portion 

 colorless and hyaline, the rest intense black, forming a large nearly, round 

 spot. Marginal cell rather short, its postigmatal portion much the largest, 

 the substigmatal part very ^Imrt, owing to the rounded end of the stigma; 

 third discoidal distinct ; second submargmal large, narrowed half or nioic 

 to marginal. Legs yellow, anterior coxce tufted with white hairs, anterior 

 femora and tibire with a black stripe behind, middle femora and tibi.e 

 similarly striped, and a black spot near end of middle femora in front, 

 hind coxae with a black dot near apex, hind femora with a broad obligue 



