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less mountain grasshopper, Pezotettix glacialis, by Mr. Johnson 

 in the latter part of August last, on North Mountain, Sullivan 

 County, Pennsylvania, altitude about 2600 feet. Scudder's types 

 were taken in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. 



Mr. Hoyer reported the capture of Chilocorus bivulnerus, Pen- 

 tilia misella and Adalia bipnnctata at Palmyra, N. J., on Oct. 

 10, 1897. These specimens, which were exhibited, were all found 

 on pear trees, the latter being found feeding upon the scale. 



Mr. Bland mentioned taking a specimen of Elniis fovcatus at 

 Ambler, Pa., in July, stating that former specimens came from 

 Carbon County, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut. 



Mr. Wenzel spoke on the different habits of Bembidium con- 

 st ric turn and B. contraction; the former species was taken by the 

 speaker in numbers, since the last meeting, on the beach at An- 

 glesea, N. J., always near water. The latter species was taken 

 on the meadows around the roots of sedge. 



Mr. Fox referred to the hymenopterous genus Engycistus de- 

 scribed by him several years ago and based on Cresson's Myzine 

 rufiventris. This species was originally described from Texas, 

 and subsequently recorded from Mexico, by Cameron, in the 

 ' Biologia Centrali-America. " The description of the genus 

 had been drawn from the original type of Myzine rufiventris, a 

 o , and from females collected in Lower California. This leaves 

 but three localities recorded so far for the genus; all in North 

 America and the speaker now wished to place on record a fourth, 

 Chapada, Brazil, which greatly extended the geographical dis- 

 tribution of the genus. The Brazilian specimens two females 

 and one male, represented a new species; the affinities to Myzine 

 rufiventris were pointed out. 



D . Skinner mentioned having in his possession a new species 

 of Debis from Louisiana. An account of the species will be 

 found elsewhere in this issue. 



No further business being presented the meeting adjourned to 

 the annex at 10.15 P. M. 



THEO. H. SCHMITZ, Secretary. 



OBITUARY. 



The death is announced of the Rev. ANDREW MATTHEWS, distinguished 

 for his work on Micro- Coleoptera. We learn from "The Entomologist" 

 that, in 1872, Mr. MATTHEWS published the first volume of "Trichop- 

 terygia illustrata et descripta," with thirty-one plates drawn by himself, 

 and in his eightieth year he completed a second volume also illustrated 

 by his own hand; this is now with the publisher. Among his other works 

 are papers on the genera ffydroscapha, Amblyopinus, RlyHeena and 

 svnopses of the Trichopterygidae of Europe and North America. He 

 also described the species of his particular group of Coleoptera in " Bio- 

 logia Centrali-Americana." " Nature." 



ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS for November was mailed October 30, 1897. 



