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appendages are very small, resembling those figured by Des- 

 neux for Hodotermes turkestanicus. My insect is, I believe, 

 a true Hodotermes or Parotermes, although the structure of 

 the cubital and anal veins, and lower branches of the media, 

 cannot be made out. It may be named as follows : 



Parotermes scudderi n. sp. 



Hodotermes coloradensis Cockerell, Popular Science Monthly, 

 LXXIV, 1908, p. 1 1 8, fig. 



Length about 15^ mm.; head oblong, about 4*4 mm. long and 3 

 wide; wings about 22 mm. long; media to costa in middle of anterior 

 wing about i mm., thus the space narrow as in Parotermes', media of 

 anterior wing with only three branches above, the first arising nearly 

 9 mm. from base of wing; radius of lower wing with two branches 

 above ; antennae, as preserved, appearing brown with white annuli 

 (the sutures), about six joints to a mm. in middle of antenna. 



Easily known from the other species of Parotermes by its 



great size. 



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Collecting and Mounting Micro-Diptera. 



Paper II Mounting. 

 By E. T. CRESSON, JR V Philadelphia, Pa. 



In previous pages of this journal (i) I gave an account of a 

 method of collecting micro-diptera and promised to supple- 

 ment it with an article on a method of mounting which I use 

 and find most satisfactory for preserving them for study. It 

 is generally the fact that a thorough systematist is a poor tech- 

 nician and vie a versa. The systematist being more interested 

 in the insect and its relationship than in the method of mount- 

 ing and its appearance in relation to others in the series or col- 

 lection, while the technician considers more the appearance and 

 the method of mounting. The method I use and will here 

 try to describe, should appeal to the former on account of the 

 advantages possessed for thorough examination, while the ap- 

 pearance of the mount nnd its subject should satisfy 'he latter 



The common practice of gluing the insect to points, which 

 is usually done by Coleopterists and seems most satisfactory 

 for them, should be discouraged for micro-diptera, and this 



(i). Vol. xxi., pp. 406-410. 



