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I, Nickerl 32, Nonfried 32* Chittenden 9, Schwarz 9*, Verhoeff 38, 

 Planet 3, Sloane 40, Clark 43, Lang and Beutenmiiller 43, Lutz 17, Keen 

 23, Moffat 23, Senna 46, Gorham 46. 



DIPTERA. 



Austen i* Townsend 7*, Vine 11, Baker 23*, CoquiUett 26, 43*, 44r 

 Strobl 36. 



LEPIDOPTERA. 



Smith I, 34*, Hodgkinson 2, Standfuss 2, Grover 2, de la Garde 2, 

 Kane 2, B6gin 6, Godman and Salvin, 13, Druce i, 13* Slingerland 14, 

 Marshall 15, Rippon 16, Kellogg 21, Trimen 22, Hampson 22, Moffat 23, 

 Grote 23, 47, Dyar 23, 26, 43, 44, Watson 2, Plateau 30, Disque 32, Pack- 

 ard 17, 43, Marlatt 9, Froggatt 40, Beutenmiiller 43, Dayton 44, Dod 

 23, Skinner 23* Butler i. 



HYMENOPTERA. 



Provancher 6*, Preusse 8, Ashmead 9*, Cameron 13*, Wasmann 18, 

 Rothney 22, Harrington 23, Davis 23, Howard 9, 24*, Friese 25, Forel 27, 

 Enock 28, Janet 30, Emery 31* Cockerell i* 35* 44*, CoquiUett 9, Mar- 

 latt 9*, Riley 9, Brauns 39, Townsend 44, Dyar 23*. 



Doings of Societies. 



The Entomological Section of the Chicago Academy of Sciences held 

 its regular monthly meeting at the house of W. E. Longley, 115 South 

 Ridgeland Avenue, Oak Park, 111., Friday evening, June 21st. A good 

 attendance present. Mr. A. J. Snyder, the recorder of the Section, with 

 an assistant, left June 14th for a ten- weeks' collecting tour in the West. 

 The members present report the collecting this season unusually good. 



W. E. Longley, Chairman. 



Xhie Entomological Section 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



PROCEEDINGS OF MEETINGS. 



The following papers were read and accepted by the Committee for 

 publication in Entomological News : 



NEW CALIFORNIAN COLEOPTERA. 



By F. E, Blaisdell, M. D. 



Coniontis sanfordii n. sp. — Length 12.5 mm.; width 6.0 mm. — Oblong, 

 moderately elongate with sides feebly arcuate, rather strongly convex, 

 very highly polished, smooth ; vestiture minute and fulvous in color. 



