XXXVlll MONTHLY PROCEEDINGS 



November 11, 1881. 

 Director Dr. LeConte in the chair. 

 The Publication Committee announced the completion of vol. ix of 

 the Transactions of the American Entomological Society to page 196. 



The Publication Committee reported favorably the following paper for 

 publication in the Transactions : — 



" Index to the Species of Coleoptera described by John L. LeConte, 

 M. D.," by Samuel Henshaw. 



The following additions to the Library of the American Entomological 

 Society were announced : — 



Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1881, part 2. From 

 the Society. 



Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society of London, October, 1881. 

 From the Society. 



Bulletin of the Essex Institute, vol. xiii, Nos. 7 — 9. From the 

 Institute. 



Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, No. 210. From the Conductors. 



Canadian Entomologist, vol. xiii. No. 9. From the Editor. 



Le Naturaliste Canadien, No. 143, vol. xii. From the Editor. 



Psyche, vol. iii. No. 85. From the Editors. 



II Naturalista Siciliana, vol. i. No. 1. From the Publishers. 



New Carboniferous Insects, by S. H. Scudder. From the Author. 



December 12, 1881. 

 Director Dr. LeConte in the chair. 

 The Publication Committee announced the completion of vol. ix of 

 the Transactions of the American Entomological Society to page 212. 



Mr. E. T. Cresson presented the following descriptions of new Hymen- 

 opterst in the collection of the American J]ntomological Society : 



Eucerceris bicolor. — 9- — Fulvo-ferruginous; strongly, closely and more 

 or less confluently punctured, the pubescence thin and pale except on apex of the 

 abdomen where it is black; apex of mandibles, tip of clypeal spine, spot enclos- 

 ing ocelli, most of thorax and the three apical segments of abdomen, black ; head 

 large, transversely quadrate; clypeus short and very broad, the apical margin 

 broadly arched, with a short acute tooth beneath median lobe, and another more 

 obtuse on either side just above the large tooth on mandibles, the median lobe 

 produced into a triangular subacute spine; labrum broad and subtruncate at tip; 

 mandibles with a large obtuse tooth within near base; thorax sometimes entirely 

 black, sometimes ferruginous with the sides only black, generally the prothorax. 

 seutellums and metathorax are more or less varied with ferruginous ; the triangular 

 enclosed space at base of metathorax transversely striated, the striations becoming 



