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HEMIPTERA. 



Berg 4, Newstead 17 (two), Fowler 19 (Membracidae*), Uhler 26*, Hen- 

 shaw 38. 



COLEOPTERA. 



Reitter i, Wickham 3 (two), Gahan 8*, Lewis 8*, Champion 19 (Cas- 

 sididee*), Gorham 19 (Coccinellidae*), Pic 21*, Hamilton 3, Rogeron 34, 

 Wickham 35, Townsend 38. 



LEPIDOPTERA. 



Grote 3, Strecker 3, Tutt 3, Bean 3, Buckell 3, Moffat 3, Godman and 

 Salvin 8*, 19, Swinhoe 8, Lower 13, Verson 15, Tutt 16, Butler 20 (three), 

 South 20, Frohawk 20, Kane 20, Austaut 23, Schaus 26*, Girod-Genet 27, 

 K^naggs 17, Jordan 3, Holland 38, Weed 38, Huston 38, Dyar 38. 



DIPTERA. 

 Townsend 3, Strobl 10, Wainwright 17, Theobald 5, Norris 17. 



HYMENOPTERA. 



Harrington 3* (two), 32, Gillette 3*, Gribodo 22*, Hodge 25, Marie 24, 

 Saunders 17, Emery 36. 



Tne Entomological Section 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



PROCEEDINGS OF MEETINGS. 



The following papers were read and accepted by the Committee for 

 publication in ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS : 



Descriptions of the Larvae of Tritoma, Carpophilus 



and Cyllodes. 



By H. F. WICKHAM, Iowa City, Iowa. 



Tritoma Iwmeralis Fabr. fig. i. Color of larva nearly white, head yel- 

 lowish, the incisures of the body often dark from the introduction of 

 earthy matter. Form moderately elongate, nearly cylindrical, but taper- 

 ing to each end. Length 6-7 mm. 



Head moderate in size, transversely subquadrate in outline, bristly, 

 frontal margin produced between the mandibles and fringed on the outer 

 edge; vertex with an impressed line each side extending from near the 

 base to or near the origin of the antenna;. Antemue very short, the first 

 joint extremely thick and 1 heavy, the second short and thick, but U-ss so 

 than the first, third more slender and bearing two articulations at tip. 

 Eyes consist of six ocelli, situated immediately behind tin- antenna'. 

 Mandibles nearly triangular, tip witli two teeth, immediately inside of 



