ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION. 



Sub-family-TETRASTICHIN^. 



TETRASTICHITS Haliday. 



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 91^ T'<»frasticlius lecaiiii n. sp. 



\ Length 07 inch. Head yellow-brown, face deeply depressed or emargmate 



I .-Length •"' >"° ^ milky-white band extending across the face of 



r'^eTerr: C: ' 'ntnn'LVrointld, scape pale or whitish; pedicel black 



- V, ^rfuntcle li.ht brown, pale at tips, almost moniliform, pedunculated and 



f , d with witls of lon^ hair ; thorax and abdomen elongated, shinmg black 



::°;:h;a^ne,ldL,.eno;i.h,.aii»a,vein ,„„„ stig.n.l v,i„ not as Ion, .. 

 ^TSbiC a t'-n bred from a large Coccid i.c<,„»» species 

 on an a(iuatic shrub. 



September 24, 1885. 

 Director Dr. Horn in the chair. 

 Dr. Horn requested, and was granted permission to withdraw paper 

 1 86 presented at a preceding meeting. . . i m 



pllicatloo Co Jittee reported in favor of publishrng m he T^.s- 

 actions a paper entitled " Tlie North American Ohrjsididie, by S. Frank 



Aaron. , . ^ i 



Report of the Cnstodian for July and August was read 

 The following eommnoication was read from W. H Ashmead and 



ordered to be pSnted in the Proceedings: " Studies on North Amenean 



'';':' Ho^'e^Wbted a specimen of H„o.epm.. «.««.. Desm and 

 „ave in brief some of the peculiarities of the insect, and spoke of the 

 iZ dissimilar views which had been expressed concermng .ts pos,t,on^ 

 The weight of opinion at present seemed to incline tlje balance toward 

 le CeS'mbjcid. (in the broad sense), a cause which Dr. Horn was not 

 yet convinced was correct. 



' The following additions to the Library of the American Entomological 

 Society were announced :— , t:, r. 



Entomologica Americana, i, 4-6. From the Editors. 



Canadian Entomologist, May-Aug. 1885^ From^^e E .^. 



Entomologist's Monthly Magazme, July-Sept. IbSo. Fiom the bon 

 ductors. 



