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was found in the museum at Amsterdam, and in 1874 he had also investi- 

 gated it. Up to the present time nothing has been done toward distin- 

 guishing the sexes. The speaker pointed out the sexual peculiarities 

 (see ENT. NEWS v, 141). Remarks were also made about Cassida nebu- 

 losa Linn, (see ENT. NEWS v, 146). Mr. William Reineck was duly elected 

 an Associate of the Section. HENRY SKINNER, Recorder. 



The following papers were read and accepted by the Committee for 

 publication in ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS : 



CORRECTIONS IN PSELAPHID/E. 



By E. BRENDEL, M. D. 



The occasion for this communication is a lot of Mexican and 

 South American Pselaphidse donated to me by my kind friend 

 and distinguished entomologist. Achille Raffray. An accompa- 

 nying letter, dated Tientsin, China, March 16, 1894, contains 

 some interesting remarks, which I shall quote in his own lan- 

 guage, as follows: 



1. Un Euplectus de Californie, qui je ne puis determiner. Le con- 

 naissez vous ? 



For a description of this n. sp. see below. 



2. Une Bryaxis hcsmatica var. perforate, Aube, de 1' Europe meridio- 

 nale. Je possede le meme insecte, exactement le meme, sous le nomme 

 de B. obscura Dejean, c'est une type authentique, de la collection Reiche 

 il vient de I'Amerique boreale, sans localite precis. 



I suppose there must have occurred a misplacement of a label 

 with the obscura Dej. The specimens before me are true hatmatica; 

 one from Gall, merid. the var. perforata (figs. 1-2); the other var. 

 bidentata (fig. 3) from Germany; var. bidentata resembles some- 

 what B. illinoiensis. 



3. Cylindractus. J'ai etudie a nouveaux ce genre. II est decidement 

 identique aux Ty chits et 1'espece est voisine de votre ludoviciamis ; mais 

 c' est une espece distincte. 



4. Psclaptrichus est une sousgenre de Bythinus auquel il est attachee 

 par des especes du Japon. 



5. Je crois, que Bryaxis albionica est tres different de " prop'uiqna" Lee. 

 Mes exemplaires viennent aussi de Californie. J' envoie vous le type de 

 Motschulsky. 



Here I call to my recollection, that LeConte's propinqua was 

 as " thorace impunctata, polita" and (the being unknown) 



