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both margins with .small blunt spine.s, u.suall}^ minute and fewer in 

 inunbcr on the inner margin. Subgenital plate apically triangularly 

 incised in the male, terminated by a pair of short blunt unarticukte 

 styles, of the female less distinctly incised and without terminal stjdes; 

 Hupraanal plate short and triangular in ])oth sexes; cerci of the female 

 short, conical, simple; of the male longer, cylindrical in the ba.sal 

 three-fourths, on the inner side furnished with a pointed projection 

 (fig. 33); ovipositor more than two times as long as the pronotum and 

 quite strongly curved downward. 



Ti//>e. — Apofe notahilts Scudder. 



This genus is allied to the European genus Dryinaduna., but differs 

 in several particulars, more especialh' in the short posterior femora, 

 less distinct humeral sinus, and the less distinct carina^ on the posterior 

 portion of the pronotum. But one species is known. 



APOTE NOTABILIS Scudder. 



Drymadusa sp. Scudder, Can. P]nt., XXVI, 1894, p. 180. 



AiMte notabilis Scudder, Can. Ent., XXIX, 1897, p. 73; Cat. Orth. V. S., 1900, 

 p. 76.— KiRBY, Syn. Cat. Orth., II, 1906, p. 182. 



I)exci'!ji)tlo)i. — Head moderately large and prominent, l)arely broader 

 than the anterior portion of the pronotum, into which it is inserted 



-.\rOTE NOTABILIS. ADULT FF.M.\LE. 



quite deeply; vertex consideral)ly broader than' the basal segment of 

 the antenna, but scarcely more than one-fourth as broad as the inter- 

 ocular space; front broadly rounded; e3'es large and prominent, nearly 

 round; antennje long and slender, the basal segment broad and flat- 

 tened. Pronotum large, elongate, narrow, posteriorly produced over 

 the base of the abdomen; lateral lobes well developed, somewhat 

 longer than high, the posterior margin nearly straight, the humeral 

 sinus being feeble, but distinct; disk rounded and without carinas on 

 the anterior half or three-fourths, or very slightly indicated; behind 

 that portion, and set off by a shallow transverse furrow, there is a 



