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palpi 5-jointed, brownish. Prothorax much narrower than the head, en- 

 larged towards the wings ; a little longer than broad, sides straight ; in the 

 anterior third a transversal sulcus ; behind convex, divided by an impressed 

 middle line. Mesothorax with a transversal elevation divided in the 

 middle between the base of the wings. Legs a little darker with the usual 

 dilatation of femur and the basal joint of tarsi of fore legs. Wings longer 

 than the abdomen, a Httle broader than those of Oligotoma, light brown- 

 ish-smoky, with five longitudinal white bands ; the inferior branch of the 

 sector is again furcated (and occasionally a third time, as in one wing of 

 Savigny's ligure and in the specimen before me). Four to five partly in- 

 complete costal transversals, two in the closed cells, and several more in 

 the two or three spaces between the sector-branches. Abdomen enlarged 

 behind, last ventral segment larger, convex, shining, brown. Appendages 

 broken ; two-jointed, long, thick, after Savigny and Rambur. I presume 

 the specimen to be a male, because no female genital opening is visible. 



There exists no description of Savigny's type except Rambur's of the 

 incomplete specimen in the Jardin de Plants in Paris, which has probably 

 been figured by Savigny. Burmeister has described some specimens in 

 the Museum in Berlin, Prussia, and my specimen is one of them. 



Hab. Egypt, Savigny and Ehrenberg in Berlin Museum. 



The figures by Savigny are excellent, as usual ; it is to be remarked 

 that he has seen and figured f. 9, u. e., the opening of the spinning glands 

 inside of the labium. 



Rambur, 1. c, p. 312, carefully describes a larva which belongs very 

 probably to this species. The patria of the larva, which is now in De 

 Selys-Longchamps collection, is unknown. Peihaps it may be a female. 



A wingless specimen collected by Prof. Schaum near Athens, Greece, 

 November, 1851, now in my collection, agrees very well with Rambur's 

 description; 10 mill, long, brownish-ferruginous, villous ; the end of the 

 abdomen of the carded specimen is not well visible. The head is a little 

 more oval and not so distinctly quadrangular as in £. Savigny i. Antennae 

 short, 17 joints. The body is narrower than in E. Savigny i. Otherwise 

 it has the characters described before as belonging to the female, namely, 

 the small, non-prominent eyes, and the external spine of the basal joint 

 of tarsi of fore legs. Of course it can not be decided if this specimen 

 belongs to E. Savigny i or not. Prof. Schaum had also collected a winged 

 specimen at the same place, which was unfortunately lost. Prof. Brauer, 

 1. c, quotes this species from Southern Russia with ? (authority not stated). 



