220 Annals < if the Xotifh African Museum. 



resemble those of the Ophionides, and hind tarsi, which are of greater 

 length than the whole body. In certain respects the neuration is not 

 dissimilar to that of Lapton, as figured by Pfankuch (at Deut. Eiitom. 

 Zeit. 1D12, p. 458), though the intercubital nervnre is strongly 

 oblique, and not, as there shown, vertical; also the hypopygium in 

 both is prominent. 



I need hardly point out that the Skiapodes were a fabulous people 

 of Libya, possessed of enormously developed feet. 



SKIAPUS, gen. uov. 



Head very strongly transverse ; occiput semicircularly excavate 

 centrally immediately behind ocelli, which are not in triangle but in a 

 curved line with the lateral onlv half their breadth behind the 



central ; 1'rons strongly bicarinate and centrally sulcate between the 

 scrobes ; eyes large and acutely emarginate internally ; face transverse 

 and longitudinally impressed on either side above base of the minute 

 and triangular clypeus ; cheeks obsolete ; mandibles porrect and very 

 small, nearly quadrate, lower tooth minute and upper wanting ; labrum 

 strongly exserted, longitudinally carinate discally ; mandibular palpa 

 joints cylindrical. Antennae longer than body, filiform and not 

 slender, apically setaceous. Thorax stout, notauli and sternauli want- 

 ing ; mesonotum abruptly declivous anteriorly ; scutellum glabrous, 

 not convex, laterally finely cariuate ; metathorax very short, obliquely 

 declivous throughout, and not centrally impressed ; glabrous and 

 exareolate, with two evenly curved carinae traversing its basal half, of 

 which the first centrally touches the base ; spiracles large and linear ; 

 apophyses wanting. Abdomen small and coarctate, strongly com- 

 pressed from base of third segment; first segment petiolate and linear 

 to spiracles at its apical fourth, and thence slightly explauate ; thyridii 

 wanting ; venter plicate, with hypopygium protuberant, and $ val- 

 vulae half length of basal segment. Legs long and slender, with the 

 hind ones extraordinarily elongate ; all tibiae externally setiferous ; 

 hind coxae large and globose, discally sulcate and as long as nieta- 



