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STATED iMEETING. June 13. 

 President Bland in the Chair. 



Ten Memhers present. 



On ballot, Mr. George H. Hathaway of Chicago, Illinois, was elected 

 a Corresponding Member of the Society. 



On report of the respective Committees, the following papers were 

 ordered to be published. 



Descriptions of several new species of North American COLEOPTERA. 

 BY .JAMES H. B. BLAND. 



Stapuylinus capitatus, n. sp. 



Black ; head fulvous ; fifth and sixth dorsal and all the ventral seg- 

 ments, silvery-sericeous. 



//ff/>.— Canada West. (Coll. Ent. Soc. Philadelphia.) 



Body black, pubescent and having a few long black hairs scattered 

 over the surface ; head large, subquadrate, broader and larger than the 

 thorax, fulvous, clothed with very short golden-sericeous pubescence, 

 finely punctured, and having several deep, isolated, black punctures, 

 from which proceeds a single long black hair ; eyes small, rounded, 

 black ; mandibles long, acute, shining, fulvous, their tips black, as well 

 as the palpi and the sides and undei'surface of the collar ; antennae 

 rufo-piceous. the basal joint fulvous, apical joints blackish. Thorax 

 subquadrate, slightly narrowed behind, truncate anteriorly and rounded 

 posterierly, finely punctured, densely clothed with very short black 

 pubescence, and having scattered spots of fulvous pubescence, which 

 are more obvious Avheu viewed in certain lights ; dorsal sui'face with a 

 smooth, polished, longitudinal, elevated line, obsoletely defined in the 

 middle ; scutellum velvety-black. Elytra quadrate, broader than the 

 head, the surface uneven, with dense short black pubescence; humerus 

 with a lateral fulvous mark. Legs black, with black pubescence ; the 

 femora within stained with rufous. Abdomen narrower than the elytra, 

 black, the 2nd, ord and 4th segments above with a velvety-black patch 

 of pubescence on their middle, which have, when viewed in certain 



