VI ' MONTHLY PROCEEDINGS 



black, four anterior femora castaneous, their tibise and all the tarsi dull fer- 

 ruginous; abdomen about as long as thorax, dark ferruginous, polished, base 

 of first segment blackish, apical segments sometimes more or less dusky ; ovi- 

 positor as long as the body. Length .oO inch. 



Hah. — Georgia, (Morrison). Closely allied to editus. 



Aulsiciis minor. — 9. — Small, black; head smooth and polished, broad ' 

 behind eyes; antennse as long as head and thorax, scape beneath dull red; 

 thorax above transversely wrinkled, the mesothorax gibbous in front, anterior 

 lobe emarginate medially as in abdominalis ; tegulse piceous ; wings hyaline, 

 slightly dusky at tips, nervures and stigma black; legs mostly ferruginous, 

 coxse, trochanters and posterior tibise black, sometimes the posterior legs are 

 almost entirely fuscous or black; abdomen as long as head and thorax, fer- 

 ruginous, shining, base of first and two or three apical segments, black; 

 ovipositor as long as body. Length .30 inch. 



'^ . — Abdomen mostly black, the sides of the first, second and third seg- 

 ments more or less ferruginous. Length .30 inch. 

 Hah. — Nevada, (Morrison). 



The Publication Committee laid upon the table signatures 8 to 11 

 (pages 57 to 88) of volume viii, of the Transactions of the American 

 Entomological Society, printed since the last fueetiug. 



The following additions to the Library of the American Entomo- 

 logical Society were announced : — 



Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, No. 189. From the Conductors. 



Canadian Entomologist, vol. xii, Nos. 1 and 2. From the Editors. 



North American Entomologist, vol. i, Nos. 1 and 6. From the 

 Editor. 



Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society, vol. ii, Nos. 5 — 9. 

 From the Society. 



Psyche, vol. iii. No. 70. February, 1880. From the Editors. 



Journal of the Cincinnati Society of Natural History, vol. ii, No. 3. 

 From the Society. 



Annales de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique, vol. xxii. No. 3. 

 From the Society. 



Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, vol. xsiii. Part 2. From the 

 Entomological Society of Berlin. 



The Food of Birds, (The Thrush Family), by S. A. Forbes. From 

 the Author. 



De la meillenre disposition a donner aux Caisses et Cartoons des 

 collections d'Insectes, par A. Preudhomme de Borre. . From the 

 Author. 



Etude sur les especes de la Tribu des Feronides qui se rencoutrent 

 en Belgique, par A. Preudhomme de Borre. From the Author. 



