ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION. !*• 



Annual Eeport of the Manchester Scientific Student's Association, 

 1877. From the Association. 



May 9, 1879. 

 Vice-Director Dr. Horn in the chair. 

 The Publication Committee reported favorably the following papers 

 presented at the last meeting for publication in the Transactions of 

 the American Entomological Society :— 



"Synopsis of the Monotomidse of the United States," by George 



H.Horn, M.D. ^ „ i. n 



" Synopsis of the Nitidulid^ of the United States, by George 



H. Horn, M. D. 



Mr. Blake communicated the following description of a new species 

 of Pamphila from Costa Rica : 



Pamphila dufeol«m.-S. -Upper side bright fulvous; primaries 

 broadly margined with fuscous, broadest at inner angle, a bright fulvous streak 

 on cosL extending from base to near the middle, below wh.ch a base U > s 

 obscure fuscous; at the extremity of cell a fuscous patch rounded at apex and 

 ioinin^ the costal margin; nervules fuscous; secondaries margined with fus- 

 ions, broader at costal margin and base, becoming narrower at exterior margin ; 

 disc immaculate, fringes fulvous. Under side; primaries brighter fulvous than 

 above, paler at apex, the fuscous margin extending along interior margin to 

 inner angle, and terminating below the middle of exterior margin the fuscou 

 patch at base same as above, subcostal nervules fuscous; seconaar.es bright 

 yellow, with a fulvous streak extending from base to near anal angle, immacu- 

 Le, fr nges same as above. Thorax above fuscous; abdomen fulvous, beneath 

 yellow; palpi fulvous mixed with grey; antenna fuscous, the club and basal 

 portions of the joints bright ferruginous within; legs pale fulvous. Expands 



'* Tab -Costa Rica. Collected by the late Wm. M. Gabb. Allied 

 to P Zahuloii. The specific name above used has been taken from 

 the vocabulary of one of the Costa Rican tribes, as compiled by 

 Mr. Gabb, and signifies brownish-yellow. 



Mr E T Cresson exhibited specimens of several hymenopterous 

 insects which he believed to be new, and described them as follows: 



OrySStiS OCCidentaliS.-S9-B!ack, opaque; head coarsely punc- 

 tured the vertex gibbous, crowned with six or seven acute tubercles encircling 

 the twer ocellusf clypeus acutely margined at tip which is truncate; cheeks 

 very prominent; oints 3-6 of antenna more or less white above; thorax de- 

 mised, densely punctured ; scutellum triangular, acute at tip; wings smoky 

 brnd stigma; knees and line on outer side of tibi., white tars, f^^vo-tes a- 

 ceous sometimes more or less obfuscated; abdomen shining, ferruginous, basal 

 segment black, scabrous. Length .40—60 inch. 



^^«6._Colorado, Nevada, (Morrison). Eight specimens. 



(9^ MAY 26, 1879. 



MONTHLY PROC. ENT. SEC. A. N. S. K") 



