ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION. Ill 



Mr. J. F. Knight reported from Finance Committee that they had 

 examined the accounts of Treasurer of Section and found them cor- 

 rect. 



Report of Curator was read and accepted. 



A communication from the Smithsonian Institution announcing 

 the selection of Prof. S. P. Langley as secretary. 



A i)aper was read from Dr. E. Brendel entitled : " Some correc- 

 tions in the family Pselaphidje," and the Publication Committee was 

 authorized to print without delay. 



Paper 206 was read by title and referred to Publication Com- 

 mittee. 



Mr. Knight was called to the chair and Dr. Horn gave fuller 

 details of the characters of Lachnosterna from his paper which had 

 been printed. 



Five species of Pleocoma were exhibited, and an explanation of 

 their systematic ])ositiou in the family Scarab;\3idie given. Dr. Horn 

 denied the assertion of Dr. Gerstaecker that they were Pleurostict, 

 and demonstrated by dissections that Dr. LeConte had correctly 

 placed them in the Lai^arostict series. 



Dr. Horn exhibited a drawing of the larva of Glyptm found in 

 the nests of the great white ant in Sierra Leone. 



After a discussion on the availability and utility of Alaska as a 

 collecting field, the Section, at 9.35, adjourned. 



February 23, 1888. 

 Director Dr. Horn in the chair. 



The following additions to the Library of the American Entomo- 

 logical Society were announced : 



Transactions of the American Entomological Society vol. xiv, 

 No. 2. From the Publication Committee. 



Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History, vol. iv. Parts 

 1-4. From the Society. 



Psyche, vol. v, Nos. 141-142, Jan.-Feb. 1888. From the Cam- 

 bridge Entomological Club. 



Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, February, 1888. From the 

 Conductors. 



Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South 

 Wales, vol. xx, 1886. From the Society. 



