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AntenncB quatuor flagellis confectce, non pediformes. Animalia 

 gressoria. 



Genus ICILIUS. 



AntenncB elongatse, secundse longiores. Pedes non prehensiles, toti 

 vergiformes, apicem unguiculati. Styli caudales sex, furcati. 



IciLius ovALis. — Oephalothorax ellipticus, capite brevi late triangu- 

 late, frontem lateraque obtuse. Oculi remotissimi. Segmentum tho- 

 racis primum angustius et brevissimum. Abdomen 7-articuIatum, 

 segmentis tribus anticis ad marginem pesticum medianum acutis, seg- 

 mento ultimo parvule ovate. Antenna; subteretes : 2dae corpore lon- 

 giores, flagello fere duplo longiore quam basis, tenuissimo : Imse fere 

 dimidio breviores, flagello non duplo longiore quam basis. Pedes 

 4 antici infra dense hirsuti ; 6 postici inter sese similes ; 7mi 6tis 

 valde longiores, tenues, fere nudi. 



Long. 2'". — Hab. in freto " Balabac," juxta Borneo. 



Three hundred and twenty-eighth meeting. 



February 13, 1850. — Quarterly Meeting. 



[This statute meeting was held in virtue of an adjournment 

 from January 30th, on account of the accidental omission of 

 the usual circular notice to the Fellows.] • 



The President in the chair. 



Professor Guyot, from the committee on the resolutions in 

 behalf of the establishment of a system of meteorological 

 observations in the State of Massachusetts, reported in favor 

 of their adoption. The report was accepted, and the resolu- 

 tions adopted. 



Professor Peirce, Professor Guyot, and Dr. H. I. Bowditch 

 were appointed a committee to bring the subject to the con- 

 sideration of the Legislature now in session. 



The Librarian brought to the notice of the Academy a 

 chart of the ancient mounds, or earth-works, at Marietta, by 

 Winthrop Sargeant, addressed in the year 1788 to Governor 

 Bowdoin, President of the Academy. The Librarian found 



