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Abdomen shorter than the wings, luteo-fuscous ; posterior margin of 

 segments, and sometimes a faint middle line, yellow. 



Genitals of male and the last segment black, below a row of strong 

 black spines ; an inferior conical part with long black hairs ; abdomen of 

 female shorter, the superior parts blunt, below a row of black bristles ; 

 two small appendages (probably) inferiors. 



Legs yellowish, not very short, the intermediate finely sprinkled ; 

 femora and tibia darker inside, except in the middle pair ; tibia with an 

 apical dark ring ; tarsus about longer than tibia, tips of joints darker ; 

 spurs scarcely as long as first joint, straight, dark. 



Wings hyaline, moderately pointed ; pterostigma small, milk white, 

 a small dark dot before it ; venation pale, median and submedian veins 

 distinctly interrupted with fuscous ; costals simple. 



Length of body, £ 30, $ 26 mm.; exp. al. 54 to 60 mm. 



Hab. — New Mexico (formerly W. Texas), Pecos River, August 4th, 

 Capt. Pope's Exped.; Mexico, Matamoras, same expedition. 



THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL 

 SOCIETY OF ONTARIO. 



The Annual Meeting of the Society was held in the City Hall, 

 Ottawa, on Friday and Saturday, October 5th and 6th, 1888. A Council 

 meeting was held on Friday morning at 10.30 o'clock in a Committee 

 room of the City Hall, at which the following members were present : — 

 The President, Mr. James Fletcher, Ottawa ; Mr. E. Baynes Reed, Mr. W. 

 E. Saunders and Mr. J. M. Denton, London ; Rev. C. J. S. Bethune, 

 Port Hope ; Rev. T. W. Fyles, Quebec ; Mr. James Moffat, Hamilton ; 

 Mr. H. H. Lyman, Montreal. After the transaction of routine business, 

 the sum of $200 was voted to the Library Fund for the purchase of books 

 and the binding of periodicals and pamphlets. An Executive Com- 

 mittee, to consist of the President, the Editor, the Secretary-Treasurer 

 and the members of the Council resident in London, was appointed to 

 deal with the financial affairs of the Society and to provide for the 

 representation of the Society at the annual meeting of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science. The work of arranging the 

 Society's collections and putting them in good order was directed to be 



