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small : ocelli none ? prothorax more than twice broader than long-, 

 a little impressed in front, slightly convex on each side: abdomen a 

 little broader but not longer than the thorax: tarsi testaceous; 

 fourth joint twice the length of all the other joints: wings subhya- 

 line, minutely rugulose, twice the length of the body ; costal and 

 subcostal veins testaceous ; the other veins almost obsolete. Length 

 of the body 2 lines ; of the wings 9 lines. 



41. Termes occidentis. 

 Fulvus, latus, linearis ; caput crassum ; pedes validi. 



Tawny, linear, very broad, pubescent, shining: head subellipti- 

 cal, very thick, full as broad and as long as the thorax, depressed on 

 the disk, with a tooth on each side in front near the base of the an- 

 tenna : eyes very small : ocelli none: mandibles black, stout, long, 

 slightly curved, bidentate : prothorax more than twice broader than 

 long, narrower behind, very concave along the front, hardly convex 

 on each side and behind: abdomen short: legs very thick ; fourth 

 joint of the tarsi full twice the length of all the other joints: wings 

 rudimentary. Length of the body 5 lines. 



a, b. West Coast of America. Presented by Captain Wood and 

 Lieut. Wood. 



Genus 2. EMBIA. 



Labium profunde bifidum, palpis 3-articulatis instructum. 

 Antennae 17-articulata?. Tarsi 3-articulati, articulo lo maximo. 

 Alarum venae omnes cornea? , venis recurrentibus inter se junctae. 



Emb ia, Latr. ; Westw.; Burm. ; Blanch.; Ramb, 



I, Embia Savignyi. 

 Testacea ; alcefusca, albo striata. Long. 4^ lin. 



Embia , Descript. de I'Egypte, 2VeMr.pl. 2, f. 9, 10. 



Embia Savignyi, Westw. Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 372, pi. 2, f. 1 . 

 Burm. Handb. Ent. ii. 770. Ramb. Hist. Nat. Ins. Near. 311, 1 . 

 Embia iEgyptiaca, Blanch. Hist. Nat. Ins. 48, 



a, b. Egypt. Presented by C. Lamb, Esq. 



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