—So- 

 set a very bad example. We hope such of our Entomologists as may 

 indulge in species building hereafter will see that their descriptions are 

 published where students have a right to look for them and can without 

 waste of time and labor find them. 



Society News, 



The Brooklyn Entomological Society met June 5th. 17 members present. 



The Treasurer reported all bills paid — cash in hand $26.48, and outstanding 

 credits of nearly Sioo. 



The special order of the evening — the question of uniting with the Brooklyn In- 

 stitute and becoming its entomological section — was taken up and it was unanimously 

 resolved that the Brooklyn Entomological Society accept the invitation of the Brook- 

 lyn Institute to unite with it upon the terms ofTered, with the underatandmg it would 

 be on the basis that the Brooklyn Entomological Society will not surrender it cor- 

 porate existence. A committee was appointed, consisting of Messrs. Graef, Roberts, 

 Pearsall and Hulst, to meet with the authorities of the Brooklyn Institute and make 

 tinal arrangements for the completion of the proposed co-operative union. 



A paper by Dr. John Hamilton of Allegheny, Penn.. was read on the subject 

 " Thoroughness in Entomological Tables " * being a brief review of an article in 

 Ento. Am. by Lieut. Casey on the same subject. The paper elicited considerable 

 discussion. 



A paper by Mr. W. G. Wright of San Bernardino, Cal.,** giving a very interest- 

 account of the life history of the most elegant of American butterflies— Z,jr«-«fl! sono7'- 

 ensis — wsLS also read. The meeting closed with exhibition and identification of 

 specimens. 



Ento. Soc. Washington, June 7th, 1888. Nine members present. Prof. 

 Riley read some notes on Fromtba and Yucca pollination, in refutation of Mr. Hulst's 

 conclusion in Ento. Am., vol. II, p. 1S4. He explained why, in his opinion pollination 

 by bees is almost impossible, and gave in some detail the results of experiments in 

 artificial pollination. Finally he is more than ever confirmed in his published views 

 on this subject. Some discussion on this paper was had between Prof. Riley, Messrs. 

 Schwarz, Howard and Smith, largely in relerence to habits of bees. 



Prof. Riley exhibited some new and interesting Micro-I>epidoptera, among them 

 types of a new genus which he will describe as Walsinghaniia and of a new Sitmrthis 

 which he will describe as S. fernaldi. He also made some remarks on the Hessian- 

 fiy showing that all references to the occurence of the species prior to the Revolution 

 said to be tound in the minutes of the Philosophical Soc. were based on an error, and 

 Dr. Hagen's arguments based on this point, fail. 



Mr. Howard showed drawings of a new and remarkable Chalcid from California 

 which he proposes to call Rileya splendens. The genus is compared with Ceraptero- 

 ccrns, Westwood, differing as follows : Face not elbowed in the middle so as to give 

 a triangular profile to the head, but is gently rounded and has a strong glistening 

 transverse clean-cut ridge just above the insertion of the antennje, which are stouter, 

 and with a more concave scape than with Cerapteroceriis. The mesoscutellum has a 

 strong tuft of erect black hairs as in Chiloneiiriis, but which is lacking in Ceraptero- 

 ceriis. The stigmal vein is given off immediately at the juncture of the submarginal 

 with the costa, and is a trifle longer than the postmarginal. The submarginal is 31/2 

 times as long as the stigmal. The postmarginal, the distal third of the submarginal, 

 and the wing disc just below this last, heavily clothed with short, stout bristles. The 

 l)ody is highly polished and the wings are not hyaline. The metanotal spiracles are 

 large, long-oval and oblique, and the abdominal spiracles are very prominently 

 tufted. Ovipositor protruded only in specimens killed in the act of oviposition. 



Messrs. Howard, Riley and Schwarz discussed the methods of oviposition in 

 some Parasites, and the uses of the often strangely modified antenn;^ of the 9 • 



Mr. Schwarz read a list of TerDietophiliis Coleoptera found in the U. S. with 

 notes on the species. The probable habits of the species and connection with their 

 hosts was discussed by Messrs. Schwarz, Howard and Riley. 

 John B. Smith, Rcc. Secretary. 



" Published in the present number, p. -8. 

 *'' Published in the present number, pp 71 and 72. 



