MONTHLY PROCEEDINGS 



Note on the paper, " On the Tongue (Lingua) of some Hymen- 

 optera," by V. T. Chambers. From the Author. 



Note on a Gall-Inhabiting Ant, by W. H. Patton. From the Author. 



April 11, 1879. 

 Director Dr. LeConte 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 : — 



" On the Chrysides of North America, by Edward Norton." 



" Catalogue of the Mutillidae of North America, with descriptions 

 of new species, by Charles A. Blake." 



Mr. Cresson exhibited specimens of a new genus, which he named 

 EuPARAGiA, belonging to the family Vespidae, and probably to the 

 tribe Masarinae. The general appearance of the insect is that of a 

 very small Vespa, but with a larger, broader head, and more robust 

 thorax; the antennas are widely separated at insertion, short, clavate, 

 with the joints distinct; head rather broader than thorax; prothorax 

 broad and truncate in front, the angles not prominent; scutellum 

 somewhat as in Masari's, rounded behind and overhanging the post- 

 scutellum ; metathorax concave behind, with the lateral angles sharp; 

 wings with an indistinct duplication, and with three submarginal cells, 

 the second and third each receiving a recurrent nervure; legs moder- 

 ately slender, tarsal claws simple; abdomen shaped much as in Vespa^ 

 but more rounded at base. In the 9 the face is broad, clypeus as 

 broad as long, obliquely narrowed to tip which is truncate; while in 

 the S , the face is narrower, clypeus subquadrate, a little longer than 

 broad, the tip deeply notched or bidentate, the antennae longer and 

 less clavate, and the anterior trochanters elongate, widened to tip and 

 armed beneath with a long curved tooth or spur, which lies closely 

 against the dilated base of the femora. The species, which is also 

 new, he characterized as follows : 



Eiiparagia Scutellaria. — 9. — Black, head and thorax opaque; minute 

 dot at summit of eyes, narrow upper margin of prothorax dilated into a spot 

 anteriorly, tubercles, sometimes a rounded spot on posterior middle of meso- 

 thorax, spot at apex of scutellum, knees, base of tibiae, and a band at tip of 

 abdominal segments 1 — 6, (that on first segment slightly interrupted medially 

 and recurved laterally, those on 2 — 5 dilated laterally and more or less deeply 

 emarginate on each side anteriorly), yellowish-white; wings hyaline; abdomen 

 smooth and shining. Length .26 inch. 



