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Vanessa io, Vanessa polychloros and Debis portlandia, single 

 specimens of each, "taken by Canon Tristram in 1848." The 

 local collectors, as far as I could learn, know nothing of these. 

 Professor Verrill also records an unidentified black Papilio, 

 seen but not captured, in 1901. 



Of the total area of the Islands (about nineteen square 

 miles) a comparatively small portion remains in anything ap- 

 proaching undisturbed condition. The sand hills and rocky 

 cliffs of the south shore and the marshes are least disturbed by 

 cultivation. The extensive Devonshire marshes have been 

 badly burned over within a few years; those in Warwick- 

 Parish are now almost treeless ; a deep valley near Paget Par- 

 ish Church is grown up with palmetto, various shrubs, tall 

 ferns and marsh-grasses, and this is probably the best collect- 

 ing-ground readily accessible from Hamilton ; the Walsingham 

 tract yields a number of plants and a few insects not seen else- 

 where; but throughout the Islands, insects, while at times 

 abundant enough in individuals, are of such a limited number 

 of species that collecting is a constant disappointment to the 

 entomologist who expects his captures to accord with the semi- 

 tropical climate and vegetation. Of the fifty-two species on 

 the present list, all but six have been recorded from our own 

 Southern States. 



Three New Psenid Wasps from New Jersey. 



By S. A. ROHWER, Washington, D. C. 



Descriptions of three new wasps belonging to the family 

 Pseniidae are submitted here so they may be included in the 

 forthcoming list of insects found in the State of New Jersey. 



Psen (Himesa) nigrescens n. sp. 



Belongs to group nigra of Fox, and is related to mi.rta Fox and 

 lencopa Jay. The sparsely punctured vertex and orbits, the almost 

 impunctate mesopleurae with the upper part striated, the transversely 

 striated diamond-shaped area of the enclosure, the elongate abdomen, 

 and simple flagel will help distinguish it from its allies. 



$. Length 7.5 mm. Anterior margin of the clypeus bidentate; front 



