ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION. XIX 



Journal of the Ciuciunati Society of Natural History, vol. iii, No. 3. 

 From the Society. 



American Entomologist, vol. iii, No. 9. By purchase. 



Le Naturaliste Canadien, vol. xii, No. 137. From the Editor. 



Entomologists' Monthly Magazine, No. 196. From the Conductors. 



November 12, 1880. 

 Vice-Director Dr. Horn in the chair. 

 The Publication Committee laid upon the table signatures 38 — 41 

 (pages 297 — 322) of volume viii, of the Transactions of the American 

 Entomological Society, printed since the last meeting. 



Dr. Horn stated that, through the kindness of Mr. E. P. Austin of 

 Boston, he had been presented with a specimen collected in Massa- 

 chusetts which agrees exactly with Say's description of Cetonia vestifa, 

 and on comparison does not differ from the O. hiriella Linn., of Europe. 

 The specimen is one of a small number collected last year, and is as 

 far as he knew the first recorded appearance of the insect since the 

 specimen received by Say. He was not prepared to say that these 

 occurrences warrant us in placing the species in our list as a member 

 of our fauna, while its introduction would make it necessary to discuss, 

 on this side of the Atlantic, the relative value of the numerous genera 

 made at the expense of Cetonia, or else to call the species Euphoria 

 hirtella in this country and Tropinota hirtelkt in Europe. 



E. callfornica Lee, has been determined by comparison to be 

 Glyciphmui jucunda Fald., (var. argp-osticta Burm.), and was de- 

 scribed from a specimen received from California, the history of which 

 could not be obtained. 



While considering the Cetonia the question might be asked, whether 

 it is really proper to add to our lists well known foreign species 

 which are found here under circumstances which lead us to infer 

 that each occurrence may be an introduction through commerce. 

 Prominent in this number is Luinus siiphoideK, which Dr. Horn did 

 not believe had ever gone through its life history from egg to imago 

 in this country. 



Dr. Horn also remarked that while looking over a number of South 

 African Cicindete in the collection of Mr. Schaupp, he was struck 

 with the general resemblance of the type of elytral marking to that 

 described by Dr. Leconte in C. Majdahn^., the specimen being in the 

 Oxford Museum and said to have been obtained from North Carolina 

 turpentine. This species therefore, seems to need a little further in- 



