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behind, line on postscutellura, sometimes interrupted, tips of femora, tibiae 

 and tarsi and band on each abdominal segment above, broad on first and 

 second and becoming gradually narrower on remaining segments, all lemon- 

 yellow; thorax above with rather fine, scattered punctures; disk of metathorax 

 with a deep longitudinal groove; wings yellowish-hyaline; abdomen shining, 

 with rather deep scattered punctures; venter piceous, thickly clothed with 

 ochraceous pubescence. Length .45 inch. 

 Hah. — Nevada. 



Philantliiis scntellaris. — %. — Black, shining; head, thorax and base 

 of abdomen above, with short pale pubescence; eyes unusually large, nearly 

 meeting on vertex, sides of face, large subrhomboidal mark above antennae, 

 clypeus, spot behind eyes, eight basal joints of antennae beneath, subinter- 

 rupted line on prothorax above, tegulse, dot above, spot beneath, scutellum, 

 postscutellum, two dots at tip of metathorax above, tips of femora, tibiae and 

 tarsi, broad band on two basal segments of abdomen, narrowed and interrupted 

 medially, and a narrow band on apex of third and three following segments, ■ 

 all yellow; thorax above finely punctured, metathorax deeply impressed on ■ 

 disk; wings dusky on apical half, nervures pale fuscous; abdomen shining, 

 finely but not closely punctured; venter thickly clothed with fuscous pubes- 

 cence. Length .50 inch. 



Hah. — Kansas. Closely allied to Sanhorni Cress. 



The following Officers etc., were elected to serve for the year 1880 : — 

 Director. — John L. LeConte. M. D. 

 Vice-Director. — George H. Horn, M. D. 

 Recorder. — James H. Ridings. 

 Treasurer. — E. T. Cresson. 

 Conservator. — Greorge B. Cresson. 



Puhlication Committee. — George H. Horn, M. D., Samuel 

 Lewis, M. D. 



The following additions to the Library of the American Entomo- 

 logical Society were announced: — 



Canadian Entomologist, vol. xi, No. 11. From the Editor. 



Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, vol. xx, 

 Part 2, and sig. 15 — 17 of Part 3. From the Society. 



Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society, vol. ii, No. 3. 

 From the Society. 



Le Naturalist Canadien, Nos. 130 and 131. From the Editor. 



Destruction of Obnoxious Insects, by application of the yeast 

 fungus. By Dr. H. A. Hagen. From the Author. 



Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, for 1878. 

 From the Society. 



Transactions and Proceedings of the Philosophical Society of 

 Adelaide, South Australia, 1877 and 1878. From the Society. 



