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The right antenna was normal to the third joint, at which point another 

 antenna originated. Dr. Horn remarked that it is curious that all ab- 

 normalities of the antennas in beetles seem to originate with the third 

 joint. He also called attention to his recently published paper on the 

 Coleoptera of Lower California. Dwelling on the deformities of Coleop- 

 tera, he stated that it was impossible to account for them. Certain char- 

 acters in beetles seem to be deformities, and the Egyptian Scarabaeus with 

 its two large humps at the base of the elytra, was cited as an example. 

 These he believed to represent another form of ornamentation, which has 

 developed into tubercles. Mr. Calvert showed two nymphs of Odonata 

 collected in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, by Mr. Seiss. One species, 

 Hagenius brevistylus, which, although recorded from New York and 

 Maryland, had not been reported from Pennsylvania. The peculiar form 

 of the nymph was remarked on. Pantala flavescens, the other species 

 is cosmopolitan; the nymphs of this species were taken on a tree, some 

 distance from the water, at a height of about three feet. He also stated 

 that he had found a male specimen of Gomphus lividus in a collection of 

 local Odonata given him by Mr. Johnson. The speaker was subsequently 

 informed by Mr. Johnson that the specimen had been taken by Mr. Philip 

 Nell, at Fern Rock, near Jenkintown, Pa. 



WM. J. Fox, Acting Recorder. 



The following papers were read and accepted by the Committee for 

 publication in ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS : 



A NEW SPECIES OF LEPIDOCYRTUS. 



By F. L. HARVEY, Orono, Me. 



Lepidocyrtus cephalopurpureus n. sp. 



Description. Head obovate, broadest and deepest at the insertion of 

 the antennae. Eye patches darker than the rest of the head and bearing 

 eight ocelli, arranged as in L. lignorum (Monograph Collembola, pi. 55). 

 Head dark purple; antennae, a ventral patch between the legs and the 

 base of the legs always more or less purple. Occasionally the color 

 patches were deeper tinted, and in a few specimens the purple extended 

 over the whole body. In some specimens there was also purple on the 

 anterior border of the mesonotum. The remainder of the body not pur- 

 ple was pale dirty yellowish white, with iridescent scales and silvery re- 

 flections. Antennas hairy, stout one-fourth the length of the body and 

 head, 4-jointed, jointed in the ratio 5:13:14:18 in one specimen, and 4:13: 

 20:25 in another; basal joint paler colored. Head carried obliquely for- 

 ward and downward making nearly a right angle with the general direc- 

 tion of the mesonotum. The fore part of the body elevated when walk- 



