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Psyche 9:335, 1900.

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April, 1902] PSlai'E. 835
base to just above the apex, over the middle of the dorsinn. The underparts are of a dull silvery color. The falces are hrown. The palpus is dark with a white spot on the
patella and one on the tarsus. (In cfiionogaster the palpus is yellow with white spots). The legs are brown, the first pair having white marks on the patella and tarsus, and at the distal end of the tibia.
We have a single female sent to us by
Dr. Braun from Algoa Bay, South Africa.
{. Length 4.5. Legs 1423, firs1 plainly
stoutest, with short fringe of hairs on under side of patella and tibia,
, The cephalo\hoi-ax is a little wider than long', and slants upward from the anterior eves. The quadrangle is plainly wider be- hind than in front, is much wider thnn long, and occupies two-thirds of the cephalothorax, The anterior eves form a straight row, and are close together, the middle being less than twice as large its the lateral. The second row is close to the first. The sternum is widest in the middle, pointed behind, and truncated in front. The anterior coxae are separated by barely the width of the Inbinm, which is longer than wide. Tlie falces are short, ver- tical and parallel.
The cephalothorax is dark with two white spots on the cephalic plate just in front of Uie dorsal eyes, and a curved white band on the front part. There is a white longitudinal line on the middle of the Uiomcic part, and a good many white hairs are seen on the sides. The abdomen is darlc, with six white dots forming a curved line around the anterior end, and a transverse line of white dots in front of the middle of the dorsum. Near
the posterior end is a large central white spot, from which a curved white line runs down on each side. There are some scattered white hairs on the clypeus. The first leg is dark with a short dark fringe under the patella and tibia, and a white spot at the distal end of the fe- mur. The other legs have white rings at the ends ot the joints, and are darL colored, ex- cepting the tarsi and the proximal halves of the metatarsi, which qre light.
We have a single male from Cape
Town, sent by Dr. Braun.
NOTES. - Mr. WiIIiam I'I. Ashmead's me-
moir on the Hymenoptera Parasitica of the Hawaiian Islands occupies pages 277-364 of vol. I, part 3of the Fauna Hawaiiensis and is illustrated by two uncolored plates. There are sections entitled : General considerations, Classification of thc Hymenoptera, System- atic arrangement of the Hawaiian Hymen-
optera, Distribution, Bibliographic, and Sys- tematic account of the Hymenoptera Parasit- ica, the last forming the greater part of the text.
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1 he descriptions are concise, yet sufficiently detailed ; a tabular separation of the species of each genus with more than a single rep- resenlalive is given in most instances.
One hundred and twenty-eight species are enumerated; those figured are new. Eleven genera only arc considered peculiar to the Islands ; most of the species are new so that a statement as to their distribution can not be made ; of the known species, five are con- sidered of Asiatic or Australian origin, seven of North American origin, and five of Euro- pcan origin.
The specification as to families, genera, and new species given on page 281 is not quite accurate, and that as to new species is not just to the author.
Mr. Ernest Hartet contributes to Novitates Zoologicae, vol. 8, no. 4, p. 494-506, an appre- ciative notice of the scientific work of the late William Doherty. A list of the papers based on Doherty'a collections is giwn; also a list of seven articles on butterflies written by Doherly himself.
CORRECTION: -Page 304, col. I, line 5
and line 14 for second read first.




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