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Second abdominal segment with two distinct oblique impressed 

 lines ; hind wings in (^ with a stigma (very rarely without) ; 

 recurrent nervure not interstitial with the first transverse cubi- 

 tus Glyptodoryctes Ashm. 



Abdominal segments with punctate arcuate lines ((J* unknown) ; recur- 

 rent nervure interstitial with the first transverse cubitus. 



Bathycentor Kriechb. 



(7) Doryctomorpha antipoda n. sp. 



9. — Length 3.3 mm. Ovipositor longer than the body. Head and 

 thorax black ; abdomen above dark brownish piceous, almost black, 

 beneath paler ; base of mandibles, the palpi, the tegulae, anterior legs, 

 the middle and anterior coxre, the trochanters, base of femora, knees and 

 base of hind tibia yellowish white ; rest of legs ferruginous or fuscous. 

 Antennae 2-3 jointed, the scape large and considerably thickened, longer 

 and much thicker than the first joint of the flagellum, which is the long- 

 est flagellum joint, and a little more than thrice as long as thick at apex ; 

 second flagellum joint about two-thirds the length of the first ; the follow- 

 ing to the last are shorter and imperceptibly become shorter or smaller, 

 all being delicately fluted from the fifth. Head large, quadrate, coriace- 

 ously opaque ; thorax shining, but finely, sparsely punctate, the meso- 

 pleura with a slight femoral impression, the metathorax not short, its 

 posterior face feebly transversely aciculate and bounded by a prominent 

 carina superiorly, the metanotum thus enclosed and with a poorly defined 

 median carina. Wings hyaline, the stigma and veins brown, the second 

 and third cubital cell large, nearly equal in length, the second receiving 

 the recurrent nervure at its lower basal angle ; submedian cell very much 

 longer than the median. 



Hab. — Chatham Islands. 

 Described from i 9 specimen. 



Notes on the Distribution of Podisma variegata 



Scudder. 



By J. A. G. Rehn, Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila. 



The recent acquisition of a number of this species by the 

 author induced him to gather to^ijether all the data which he 

 could secure concerninj^ this very interesting species. The 

 original description (Rev. Melan, p. 10 1) was ba.sed on two 

 males and one female, from Ithaca and Hnfield Falls, Tomp- 

 kins County, New York, taken at elevations of 400 and 450 

 feet're»pectively. Mr. Scudder also mentions having had .sent 



