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PhasiiTie melh'sfrigata G. and R. (Buff. Bull. I, 12, pi. i, f. it, 

 1873) ^ ^"'' unable save as a varietal fornm to separate from this species 

 P. /n/iiscia/a, Pack. (6th Rept. Peab. Acad. Sci. p. 46, 1874.) The 

 presence of three dusky lines on hind wings in the latter is a veiT varia- 

 ble quantity as is also the slight obliquity and sinuousness of "the outer 

 line of the fore wings 



Phasia7ie colata, Grt. (Pap. II, 167, 1881.) This is a redescription 

 o'i P.nubecuJala, Pack. (Mon. Geom. p. 267, pi. 13, f.. 45, 1876.) In 

 some specimens the outer lines are sinuous but, the .form described by 

 Mr. Grote seems to be the same as that which Dr. Packard named. 



SOCIETY NEWS. 



Brooklyn Ent. Soc, Dec. 7th, 1886. Nine members present. Discns- 

 sion was had in reference to a ^iliange of locality for meetingi which resulted in 

 the appointment of a committee to lease a room in the Saengerbnnd Building 

 for one year. Mr. Weeks read a short note on the habit of A' ylori/des satyrus. 

 He noticed one evening early in July a loud humming or whirring sound in a 

 small thicket.and succeeded in taking a specimen oiX safyr us. After vain endeavors 

 to catch them in flight, his attention was drawn to a young ash, and there he 

 found 14 specimens all marching for the roots and one more than half burned 

 in the ground: the sexes being alx)ut equally divided. Bupreatidae and Ardiidar 

 were compared and named by the members present. 



January 4th, 1887. Nineteen persons present. The reports of officers were 

 read and accepted and that of the president was ordered printed. The following 

 officers were elected: Prest. G. W. J. Angell; Vice Pres., Dr. S. W. Williston : 

 Treasurer, Chris. H. Roberts; Eec. Sec'y, A. C. Weeks; Corr. Sec'y, Wm. Beut- 

 tenmueller; Librarian, R. F. Pearsall; Curators, M. L. Linell and Wm. Beutten- 

 mueller; Pub. Com., the Editors and Messrs Hy. Edwards, B. Neumoegin, E. 

 L. Graef, O. Dietz. E.xec. Comm., E. L. Graef, A. W. P. Cramer, Chas. Palm, 

 Geo. D. Hulst. The evening was taken up in routine business and no papers 

 Were read. 



Entomological Society of Washington, .'ird Annual Meeting January 6, 

 1887. The Treasurer and iiecording Secretary presented their reports for the 

 past year and the Society proceeded then to the election of officers for the year 

 1887 which resulted as follows: President, Mr. L. O. Howard; First Vice-presi- 

 dent, Dr. J. G. Morris; Second Vice-president, Dr. Geo. Marx; Corresponding 

 Secretary, Mr. J. B. Smith; Recording Secratary, Mr. E. A. Schwarz; Treasurer 

 Mn B. P Mann; Members of the Executive Committee: Dr. C. V. Riley, Mr. 

 Theo. Pcrgande, Mr. O. Lugger. The annual address of the president, Mr. 

 Howard was then read. After a review of the progress of the Society and cer- 

 tain recommendations as to future policy, he announced as his subject — "A con- 

 sideration of so much of the morphology of the Chalcididiie as is necessary to tht- 

 comparativ'e description of genera and si)ecies." The address consisted of 

 a brief historical review of the study of this group, dwelling mainly on the char- 

 acters used by dififerent authors, followed T)y a somewhat extended discussion of 

 external anatomy of the family as a wholel Each portion of the body was 

 taken up in turn and described, its variations mentioned, and its possibilities in 

 de.scriptive work disciissed. 



