114 PSYCHE [October 
URELLIA MEVARNA Walker (U. solaris Loew). 
Another widely distributed obtained on Mt. Greylock, Mass., August 8, ’07 
(Owen Bryant), Kingston, R. I., Oct. 8, 05 (John Barlow). 
EUARESTA PURA Loew. 
This species I have thus far seen only from Massachusetts, with the following 
records :— Bridgewater, June 27, 03; and Nantucket, July 4, ’05 (J. A. Cushman); 
Cohasset, May 29 (Owen Bryant) Auburndale, Aug. 16; Concord, July 18, ’04, and 
Woods Hole, July 25, 03 (C. W. Johnson). 
EUARESTA SUBPURA ND. Sp. 
Q Head light yellow, vertex slightly darker than the face, frontal bristles black, 
occipital bristles yellow; antennae yellow, aristae black, base yellow; eyes dark 
green or purplish in different lights. Thorax yellow, covered with short light yellow 
hairs, bristles black; scutellum yellow bearing four black bristles, metanotum brown- 
ish covered with a yellowish pollen. Abdomen yellow somewhat shining and 
covered with procumbent yellow hairs. Marginal bristles of the penultimate seg- 
ment black, middle of the first and second segments more or less brownish, terminal 
segment dark brown, ovipositor reddish. Legs yellow with light yellow hairs; 
halteres light yellow. Wings whitish hyaline, the yellow veins of the basal half 
giving that portion a yellowish tinge, the markings and reticulations are similar to 
those of E. pura Loew. Length, 5 mm. 
‘Two specimens collected by the writer at Wildwood, N. J., August 12, 1902, in 
sweeping over sea burweed (Xanthiwm echinatum). One specimen was also received 
from Professor John B. Smith, collected at Anglesea, N. J., July 12. 
CONVOCATION WEEK MEETINGS IN BOSTON. 
The American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Affiliated 
Societies, including the Entomological Society of America and the Association of 
Economic Entomologists, will meet in Boston during Convocation Week, December 
27-51, 1909. Visiting Entomologists will be entertained by the Cambridge Entomo- 
logical Club at a smoker to be given on some evening during the week. An exhibi- 
tion, illustrative of recent progress in Entomology, is to be held in connection with 
these meetings. More detailed announcements will appear in the December num- 
ber of PsycHe. 
