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Copulatory organs external, borne by the third (penultimate) pair of 

 legs: Subclass Podogona, orders Rhignogastra, Meridogastra.( ?)* 



Copulatory organs, if present, concealed within the body 



Body distinctly constricted between the thorax and abdomen ; tracheae 

 lamellar: Subclass Pedipalpi, orders Microthelyphonida, Colopyga, 

 Uropyga. Amblypyga. 



Body not constricted ; tracheae tubular : Class Holosomata, orders 

 Opiliones, Cyphophthalma, Pseudoscorpiones. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE III. 

 Hubbardia pentapeltis. 



Fig. ra. Body without appendages. 



ib. Cephalothorax, more magnified, 

 ic. Maxillae, from below, 

 id. Maxilla, distal portion, 

 ic. First leg. 



if. Distal joints of same more magnified, 

 ig. Second leg. 

 ih. Third leg. 

 li. Claw of second leg. 

 ij. Claw of third leg. 

 ik. Fourth leg. 

 il. Mandible, lateral face, 

 im. Mandible, mesial face, 

 in. Caudal segments, lateral view. 



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JANUARY 6, 1898. 



Vice-President Gill occupied the chair, and Messrs. Schwarz, 

 Fernow, Marlatt, Wait, Mann, Pratt, Benton, Curry, Kenyon, 

 Motter, Patten, Ashmead, Dyar, Johnson, Chittenden, Heide- 

 mann, and Howard, active members, and Soltau, correspond 

 ing member, also present. 



Under the head of " Short Notes and Exhibition of Speci 

 mens," Mr. Howard stated that a small Agrionine apparently be 

 longing to the genus Telagrion had been received by him from 



* Although perhaps related, it is evident that Anthracomartus, the fossil 

 type of Kars:h's order Anthracomarti (for which the name Meridogastra 

 has been substituted by Thorell) is very far distant from the existing form 

 Cryptostemma, for which the order Rhignoastra is established. I have 

 had the opportunity of collecting and observing alive this exceedingly rare 

 and interesting genus. 



