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HYMENOPTERA. 

 Aculeata, n. sp., Fox, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc. i, pp. 53-56, U. S. 

 Parasitica, n. sp., Ashmead, Bull. Ohio Agr. Exper. Station (tech. ser.) 

 i, p. 159-165, Ohio. 

 Apidae; n. spp. Robertson, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xx, pp. 145-149. 



LEPIDOPTERA. 



Thamnonotna gracilior Butler, Ann. Mag. N. H. (6), xii, p. 16, Slave 

 River, etc. Pseudosiona n. gen. Geometrarum, p. 18, P. taylori, p. 18, 

 near Mackenzie River. . 



N. gen. et spp. Mexico, Cent. Am., Godman and Salvin, Biol. Cent.- 

 Amer. Lep. Rhop. ii, pp. 265-2S8. Druce, /. c. Lep. Heter. pp. 145-160. 



Prodoxus intricatus Riley, Ins. Life, v, p. 307, Mexico. 



Noctuidae: n. spp. Calif., Smith, Ins. Life v, pp. 328-334. 



NEUROPTERA. 

 Myrmeleon n. sp. (unnamed), Townsend, Journ. N. Y. Soc. i, p. 78. 



PHALANGIDA. 



N. gen. et spp. Banks, Can. Ent. xxv, pp. 205-211; Trans. Am. Ent. 

 Soc. XX, pp. 149-152. 



THYSANURA. 

 Japyx ainericanus Macgillivray, Can. Ent. xxv, p. 174, Wash. 



Tine Entornological Section 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



PROCEEDINGS OF MEETINGS. 



The following papers were read and accepted by the Committee for 

 publication in Entomological News : 



A NEW SPECIES OF TORYMUS. 



By William H. Ashmead. 



Torymus hainesii sp. n. $. — Length 23 mm.; ovip. 2 mm. Robust; 

 thorax above dull bronzed green, shagreened, covered with short sparse 

 hairs; head, pleura, coxse and femora, except hind pair, mostly blue or 

 purplish; hind femora and abdomen metallic bluish green; scape, mandi- 

 bles, tibia and tarsi, brownish yellow; flagellum dark brown, the joints, 

 after the first, scarcely as long as wide. The head is transverse, antero- 

 posteriorly thin, the face and cheeks flattened, nearly smooth, feebly, very 

 sparsely punctate; facial furrow large, the vertex in consequence, rather 

 sharp. Thorax short, subovoid ; pronotum short, contracted anteriorly ; 



