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showing greenish bands in certain lights, especially if viewed obliquely in 

 a bright light ; the first segment is the longest, often metallic, the follow- 

 ing segments, except the sixth, which is very short, subequal in length. 



Hab. Europe and North America. 



Described from 5 9 specimens ; one taken November i , 

 1899, on a window in Bremen, and 4 specimens taken by 

 myself on a window-pane in Washington, D. C. 



Superfamily VIII, ICHNEUMONOIDEA. 



Family L.XXVI, ICHNEUMONID.^. 

 Subfamily II, CRYPTIN^). 



Tribe II, Phygadeuonine. 



BATHYMETIS Forster. 



(2) Bathymetis antipoda n. sp. 



9- Length 4.2 to 4.5 mm. Head and thorax polished black ; mandi- 

 bles, except the teeth, which are black, the scape, the pedicel and the 

 flagellum beneath to beyond the middle, the legs entirely, except the 

 hind coxae, which are more or less dusky, and the abdomen, except the 

 petiole or first segment, which is black, pale rufous ; the anterior and 

 middle coxae and trochanters paler or yellowish ; antennae above brown- 

 black. Antennae ig-jointed, the joints of the flagellum gradually shorten- 

 ing to the last, the first joint the longest, a little more than thrice as long 

 as thick, at apex being narrowed towards base, the second about thrice 

 as long as thick, the third still shorter and so on ; the last joint is about 

 as long as the third flagellum joint. The head and thorax, although pol- 

 ished and shining, are microscopically punctate, the prothorax with some 

 lineations laterally, while the strong ridge bounding the mesopleura 

 anteriorly presents some lineations and punctures within ; metathorax 

 strongly areolated, subrugose at sides, the hind angles subdentate, the 

 spiracular and middle lateral area confluent, while the spiracles are small 

 and round. Abdomen highly polished, impunctate, the petiole being 

 about as long as the hind femur, the second segment about two-thirds the 

 length of the petiole and a little longer than the third, the fourth segment 

 shorter than the third, twice as wide as long and a little longer than the 

 fifth, the sixth and seventh segments very short, united shorter than the 

 fifth. Wings hyaline, the tegulse brownish yellow, the large triangular 

 stigma and the veins black or brown-black ; the submedian cell is longer 

 than the median, the areolet pentagonal, the outer nervure of same sub- 

 obsolete or whitish hyaline ; while the disco-cubital vein is broken by a 

 scarcely perceptible stump of a vein before the middle of the third dis- 

 coidal cell. 



Hab. Chatham Island. 

 Described from 2 9 specimens. 



