Describe returns a series, so you can just select out what you want
In [6]: s = Series(np.random.rand(10))
In [7]: s
Out[7]:
0 0.302041
1 0.353838
2 0.421416
3 0.174497
4 0.600932
5 0.871461
6 0.116874
7 0.233738
8 0.859147
9 0.145515
dtype: float64
In [8]: s.describe()
Out[8]:
count 10.000000
mean 0.407946
std 0.280562
min 0.116874
25% 0.189307
50% 0.327940
75% 0.556053
max 0.871461
dtype: float64
In [9]: s.describe()[['count','mean']]
Out[9]:
count 10.000000
mean 0.407946
dtype: float64