2J:2 EDWARD NORTON. 



]. Sciapteryx rotundus, n. sp. 



Shilling black; legs white, the posterior femora and tibiaj tipj^ed with black. 

 Length 0.33. Br. wings 0.70 inch. 



$. Body polished, short and quite stout; antenna short, a little 

 longer than base of thorax, rather compressed in middle, irregular ; 

 first and second joints ovate, longer than usual, third curved, enlarging 

 toward apex ; fourth and fifth semi-ovate, contracted at base ; head 

 wide, polished, coarsely punctured near inner orbits; lower ocellus in 

 a large heart-shaped basin ; nasus emarginate, pleura coarsely punc- 

 tured; abdomen very short and wide; legs white; coxae, except at 

 tips, a line on the first and second pair of femora above, apical half of 

 posterior femora and of tibiae and their apical tarsi black; inner spur 

 of anterior tibiae very long, bifid; inner tooth of claws large and near 

 the tip ; wings hyaline, nervures blackish ; lanceolate cell with oblique 

 cross line, remainder with two middle cells. 



Farmiugton. Conn. 



One specimen. The wings are not unusually short or stout. The 

 second submargiual is widest at the angle receiving the first recurrent 

 nervure, the third a little longer than the second. 



4(3. WALDHEIMIA, Lepel. 

 Wnldheimia, Lepel, MSS. 



Brulle, Hym. iv, 1846, 6G5. 

 TPVh'/,s-:-Two marginal and four subiuarginal cells, the second and 

 third each with a recurrent nei'vure; lanceolate cell contracted; under 

 wings with two middle cells. 



Antennx 9-jointed, somewhat thickened in middle, the middle arti- 

 cles longer than the others. 

 Type. — Tenth. Brazilk)i.sis. 



1. W. Brasiliensis. 



Te.nlhi-flo Brasiliensis, Le])cl, Mon. Tenth. 1823, 9.^, 270. 

 Wa/f/hcimia Brasiliensis, Brulle, llym. iv, 60J. 

 Brazil, 



2. W, Orbignyana. Brulh'. Ilym. iv, 1840, fifi.i, pi, 40, fig. S, 9 . 



Bolivia, S. Am. Not seen, but from the species figured by I>riille. 

 this genus would appear to be the same with MacropJifja. 



47. ATHALIA, Loach. 

 Athnlia, Leach, Zool. Misc. 1814. 



Lepel, Mon. Tenth. 21. 



Stepiions, Brit. Eiit. Aland, vii. 



Brulle, Ilyni. iv. 



Hartig, Die Blattw. 1. 

 ITyloioni'i, S])ec. •***, Fab. Syst, Piez. 

 Tenthredo, (All) Fain. 1, King, Ac. 



