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hair above, and long glittering white hair below; long black hairs project from below 

 the mandibles, some of them shining brilliant coppery-red in certain lights; clypeus 

 densely pvmctured, the median keel feeble; clj^eus and front with some purple lustre 

 amid the green, but vertex behind the ocelli, and sides of mesothorax, shining golden- 

 green; mesothorax with strong punctures on a shining ground, and with short pubes- 

 cence, mixed black and dull white, only easily seen in lateral vicAv; hair of pleura and 

 metathorax dull white; scutellum with a strong shining boss on each side; punctures 

 of scutellum very strong, except on the anterior middle, when they are small and very 

 few on a smooth brilliant surface; no longitudinal groove or ridge on scutellum, and 

 of course no little patch of black hair; tegulae very large, with dense small punctures; 

 second r. n. joining third s. m. a little before its end; legs with mostly light hair, but 

 black bristles on basitarsi behind; outer face of hind tibiae coarsely tuberculate; 

 abdomen shining, closely punctured, the punctures running together transversely; 

 hair above pale, but very scanty, coarse black bristles beneath about apex; second 

 dorsal segment with the apical margin broadly purple in the middle. The hind tibiae 

 are convex without, and so coarsely punctured and cancellate as to be tuberculate. 

 The broad hind basitarsus has a wide and rather deep groove, which is beset with 

 yellowish hairs. On the middle of the hind femur beneath is a conspicuous tubercle. 

 The second ventral segment is without any peculiar features. The labial palpi, 

 directed posteriorly, reach just beyond the middle of the hind coxae. 

 Hab. — Teffe, Brazil {Raul in, Thayer Expedition). 



Proceedings of the Club. — At the Annual Meeting of the Cambridge Ento- 

 mological Club, held in the rooms of the Appalachian Mountain Club on the evening 

 of January 21, 1908, the following officers were elected: President, C. W. Johnson; 

 Secretary, C. A. Frost; Treasurer, F. A. Sherriff ; Members at Large of Executive 

 Committee, J. H. Emerton, H. H. Newcomb; Editor in Chief of Psyche and Publica- 

 tion Manager, W. L. W. Field. The retiring President, Mr. Newcomb, delivered a 

 brief address in which he revievsed the recent progress of the science of entomology,, 

 and Mr. W. F. Fiske read a paper on "The Butterflies of Western Texas." 



At the regular February meeting, held in the same rooms on February 18, Miss. 

 E. N. Buckingham spoke on "INIethods of keeping Ants and studying their habits,"' 

 and exhibited various U^pes of portable ant-nests and a convenient carrying-case. 



