'^^- [June 16, 



Table of species : 

 a. — Antennal projection of the front very short ; first joint of autennje 



nearly as long as last two together * sUinifern. 



— Antennal projection nearly as long as first joint of antennie, the 



latter scarcely longer than the second joint, 

 u. — Second, third and fourth segments of abdomen each with two 



yellow spots and posterior margin * pictula. 



— Abdomen without such spots, banded. 



c. — Second segment of abdomen much shorter than the third ; 



front of female black with yellow spots ahbreviata. 



— Second segment of abdomen nearly as long as third ; front 



of female yellow below, black above tridens. 



Cebia tridens Lw., Cent, x, 57. Loew's description applies verj-^ 

 w^ell to a single male specimen from Southern California, except that the 

 cheeks are w^holly black, and the hind tarsi yellow at the base. Other 

 specimens from Washington Territory, however, that are apparently of 

 the same species, have the anterior and middle femora black, except the 

 extreme tips, the posterior black, except at the base, the tibi* fuscous 

 near the outer ends, one of the pleural spots and the supra-alar vittula 

 entirely wanting. The female differs in the front being black on the upper 

 two-thirds ; the second and third segments of the abdomen strongly 

 marked with whitish jiollen, and the legs almost wholly yellow, the 

 anterior femora being blackish in front, the posterior lightly fuscous 

 near the tip. A female abbreviata taken with a male at New Haven, has 

 its legs yellow also with fuscous markings of the femora ; the front is 

 black with four small yellow spots. 



Stated Meeting, June 16, 1882. 



Present, 4 members. 



President, Mr. Fealey, in the Chair. 



A letter accepting membership was received from C. E. 

 Rawlins, dated Rockmount, Ramhill, England, May 12, 1882. 



Mr. P. H. Law accepted his appointment to prepare an 

 obituary notice of the late Mr. Vaux, by letter dated May 28, 

 1882. 



A request for exchanges (to be dated back at least to 1875) 

 Avas received from the Sociele Zoologique de France, No. 7 

 Rue des Grands Augustins, Paris, in a letter dated May 27, and 

 signed H. Pierson, Sec. Adjt. On motion the Librarian was 



