X MONTHLY PROCEEDINGS. 



Remarks on the Insect Defoliators of our Shade Trees — Poisonous 

 Insects — The Song Notes of the Periodical Cicada — The Hessian 

 Fly an imported insect — The Problem of the Hop-plant Louse (Pho- 

 rodon humuli) in Europe and America — On the Luminous Larvi- 

 form Females in the Phengodini, by C. V. Riley. From the Author. 



The following were by purchase : 



Lepidoptera Exotica, or descriptions and illustrations of Exotic 

 Lepidoptera, by A. G. Butler, 1869-1874 ; 1 vol. 



Catalogue of Diurnal Lepidoptera of the Family Satyridse in the 

 Collection af the British Museum, by A. G. Butler, 1868 ; 1 vol. 



Etudes d'Entomologie. Faune des Lepidopteres d'Algerie, par 

 Charles Oberthiir, 1876. 



Enumeratio Corporum Animalium Musei Imperialis Academise 

 Scientiarum Petropolitanaj. Pars 1-2, Lepidoptera Diurna and 

 Heterocera, 1855-57. 



Biologia Centrali-Americana : Coleoptera, vol. ii, Part 1, pp. 177- 

 208; Part 2, pp. 217-296, plates 12-15; vol. iv. Part 1, pp. 385- 

 408, pi. 17; vol. vi. Part 1, Suppl. pp. 1-40, pi. 34-35; vol. vii, 

 pp. 73-88, pi. 4. 



Papers 211 and 212 were read by title and referred to Publication 

 Committee. 



Mr. Liebeck announced that he had recently collected Mecyno- 

 tarsus Candidas running about on plowed ground near Westville, 

 N. J. The insect had not been previously collected north of Fortress 

 Monroe. 



Mr. Ashmead exhibited drawings of the larvae and imago of a 

 Hymenopterous insect recently studied, which he proposes to de- 

 scribe as Kormiis viaidis. Drawings of Aleurodes citri were also 

 shown. 



After conversation the Section adjourned at 9.45. 



October 25, 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. xv, 

 Nos. 2-3, 1888. From the Publication Committee. 



Canadian Entomologist, vol. xx. No. 10, October, 1888. From 

 the Editor. 



