38 COLLECTIONS SELYS 



hairs, as long as bead and prothorax (after the figure), 18-jointed, joints about alike, successively shorter, tlie 

 last as long as the first, but thinner, rounded on dp; palpi yellowish. Prothorax vory short, anteriorly with 

 a transversa] sulcus; mesothorax twice longer, anteriorly with a much deeper transversal sulcus; base 

 narrower; metathorax very sinnt; no traces of wings (alter figure). Legs (after figure) yellowish, the basal 

 Joint of the tarsi of fore legs dark fuscous, with the usual dilatations. Abdomen with nine dorsal Segments; 

 appendages rufous, the basal Joint a Utile longer; the figure of the end of abdomen shows the last dorsal 

 segment triangulär 



[Embia persica Mac Lachlan 1877]. 



Embia persica Mac Lachlan, Journ. Linn. Soc. London, vol. 13, 1877, p. 382 d 1 . — Mac 

 Lachlan, Hagen, Canad. Entomologist, vol. 17, 1885, pp. 192-193 cf. 



Habitat : Nord Per sien. 



.Mai- Lachlan, loc. cit. 



« Nigra subnitida. Caput vix in medio piceo tinctum. Pronotum brunneum. Antennae nigrae, basin 

 versus pallido cinctae, 24-articulatae; articulis duobus ultimis rlavidis. Alae angustae, fuliginosae, albido 

 5-striatae; venis luscis. Long. corp. circa 9 ' 2 -io '/= mm - Exp. alar. 13 ' --15™™. 



Heimat : Persia septentrionalis. 



Black. Head somewhat shining, sparingly clothed with greyish hairs; in form broad, subquadrate, 

 almost truncate posteriorly, with the hinder angles rounded; on the middle of the disk is a large, nearly 

 circular depression tinged with piceous. Maxillary palpe having the ist Joint longer than the 2nd and 3rd 

 the 4U1 and 5Ö1 very stout, the 5th obtusel)- oval," scarcely longer than the ist. Labial palpi very short and 

 stout, the terminal point very obtuse. Mentum small, transversely subquadrate with straight sides and 

 truncate anterior margin. Antennae scarcely longer than the head and pronotum, 24-jointed; basal Joint short 

 and thick, 2nd, 4th and 5th scarcely longer than broad, the ard somewhat longer (the 2nd to 6th each with a 

 narrow yellowish ring at the apex); afterwards they become longer, but scarcely one half longer than broad; 

 the terminal two joints dingy yellowish; other wise the colour is black, clothed with greyish hairs. Mandibles 

 testaceous. Pronotum short, considerably narrowed anteriorly, with a transverse impressed line; colour 

 brown, clothed with greyish hairs : prosternum distinctly pale yellow. Meso- and Metanota shining black, 

 the former oblong, the latter nearly quadrate. Legs dark piceous, clothed with greyish hairs. Abdomen 

 blackish piceous, paler beneath, clothed with yellowish grey hairs; caudal appendages short, the second 

 Joint brownish, clothed with yellowish hairs. Wings narrow, dark fuliginous; neuration fuscescent, the space 

 between the subcosta and radius dark fuscous; and these veins are somewhat vinous in colour, and the radius is 

 narrowly margined with whitish on its lower edge; five narrow whitish longitudinal lines : discoidal cell very 

 long, closed, and then an additional transverse nervule in its area nearer the apex; two or three transverse 

 nervules between the radius and upper branch of the sector, and one between the lower branch of the sector 

 and the cubitus. 



I have three examples (all 9 ?) from Shahrud, North Persia, collected by Herr Christoph. 



E. Solieri Rambur (from the south of Europe), of which 1 think, only the larval form has been 

 observed, appears to have twenty-oue joints of the antennae; it can hardly be identical with this Persian 

 species. Hagen indicates another species as E. nigra (but without description), from Egypt, which he 

 considers distinct both from E. Savignyi and E. Solieri. » 



Das Geschlecht der beschriebenen Stücke ist nicht weiblich, sondern männlich. 



[Embia tartara Saussure 1896]. 



Embia tartara Saussure, Bull. Soc. ent. Suisse, vol. 9, 1896, p. 352. 

 Habitat : Turkestan. 



Loc. cit. : 



« cf- Statuta majore, fusco-rul'a; pronoto rufescente. Antennae brunneae, vel fuscae; articulis plus 

 quam 20 (incompletae, apice luteae?). Caput subelongatum; oculis minutis, partim prominulis, reniformibus, 

 inter se distantibus, quam antennae band proprioribus. Alae infuscatae, vena media ante medium furcata, 

 ramo postico in medio furcato. Vena ulnans anterior tenuis et distincta, posterior incompleta (in alis posticis 

 nulla). Pedes corpore concolores, metatarso anteriore valde inllato. Abdomen subtus fuscum ac mtiduni; 



