The Rev. Wm. KinBy on a new Order of Insects. 119 
campaniformi ; basi utrinque lineolä elevatä longitudinali. 
Venter segmento primo in medio declivi, exinde transverse 
striatulo, apice ipso levi membranaceo fulvescenti; seg- 
mento secundo brevissimo valde depresso; tertio ascen- 
denti convexo, adeo ut inter primum segmentum et ter- 
tium vallecula profunda interponitur. Anus incurvus. 
"The heads of the pupz of this species of Xenos, as Rossi also 
states to be the case with his, emerge at the fourth dorsal segment 
of the abdomen. 
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EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. 
| Tas. VIII. 
Professor PEc&'s Figures. 
Fig.1. Larva of Xenos Peckii, natural size. 
2. Perfect Insect u 
8. Larva magnified seen on the back. 
4. Head of ditto seen laterally, much magnified. 
5. Abdomen of a wasp with part of one of the segments 
cut away to show the position of the pupa of ditto in 
its body. a. Pupa. 
6. Polistes fuscata Fabr. with three of the pupz of ditto in 
its abdomen at a a. 
7. Operculum which separates tömi the other part of the 
E hell of the pupa of ditto when the imago comes forth. 
a a. The eye-covers beset with hexagonal lenses. 
8. Xenos Peckii magnified. 
9. Head of ditto underside. a. Mandibule. bb. Palpi. 
c. Oral depression. Bar. 
10. Ditto upper-side. a. Mandibulee. SY, 
11. Front view of ditto. a. Mandibule. bb. Palpi. 
12. One 
