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Nigra subnitida; caput vix in medio piceo tinctum ; pronotum brun- 

 neum ; antennoe nigrae, basin versus pallido cinctae, 24-articulatae, arti- 

 culis duobus ultimis flavidis ; alae angustae, fuliginosae, albido 5-striatae ; 

 venis fuscis. (McLachl.) 



Hab. — Shahrud, Northern Persia. Three specimens collected by Mr 

 Christoph in McLachlan's collection. 



I have never seen this species ; the detailed description must be com- 

 pared in the original. There is no asymmetry noted, which is probably 

 the reason that the author has considered them to be all females, with an 

 appended ? The species seems to be different from all described ones, 

 but related to the two foregoing species. 



12. Embia Solieri. 



E. Solieri Rambur, Neuropt. p. 313, No. 4. 



Larva, dry : Length about 9 mill, {or a little less than E. Savignyi 

 Ramb.) Body rufo-fuscous, villous ; head about quadrangular, a little 

 depressed ; eyes small, black, not prominent ; antennse reddish-yellow, a 

 little longer than the head, villous, i8-jointed j 1st joint cylindrical, thicker 

 than the others ; 2nd short, 3rd longer, the rest globular. Prothorax 

 narrower than the head, somewhat enlarged behind, about as broad as 

 long, with a deep, transversal sulcus after the first third ; mesothorax ob- 

 long ; metathorax quadrangular ; no traces of wing cases. Abdomen 

 robust, broad, dark rufous, villous, a little shining ; segments alike, twice 

 broader than long, the last dorsal triangular, obtuse, symmetrical. Appen- 

 dages (rudiments only present) reddish-yellow, the basal joint thick, 

 short. The opening of the female genitals on the ventral side seems to 

 be present. Legs ferruginous, femora partly darker ; the femora and the 

 basal joint of tarsi of fore legs dilated as usual ; the only dried specimen 

 before me shows these parts shrunk, but they seem less broad than in E. 

 Savignyi; the middle legs are more dilated and stronger than usual. 



Hab. — -The specimen before me is labelled Spain. Probably it is the 

 same mentioned by me (Stettin Ent. L, 1886, vol. xxvii., p. 285). I have 

 studied the type of E. Solieri Rbr. and some other larva from Spain in 

 the collection of DeSelys Longchamps, but I can not find my notes. At 

 least Rambur's description agrees with the specimen from Spain, never- 

 theless, if my memory is not at fault, the specimen from Marseille is 

 larger. It is very remarkable, that in the more than forty years since 

 Rambur's publication no winged imago has been found, though the 



