66 ENTOMOLOGISK TIDSKRIFT 1894. 



In »Entomologisk Tidskrift», Årgång 12, 1S91, p. 161 — 74 

 we find travelling sketches from Kamerun by Cand. Y. Sjostedt, 

 and a short postscript to these by Prof. Chr. Aurivillius, in 

 which he mentions that some specimens of Hcniiuients talpoides 

 were found among the animals sent home. Having read this 

 publication I immediately applied myself to Prof. Aurivillius, 

 who with the greatest courtesy left to me i female and lent me 

 I female, i young and later moreover i male, all excellently 

 preserved in spirit. My best thanks are due to him for having 

 entrusted me with this precious, rare and very interesting mate- 

 rial. Subsetjuently Mr. Sjostedt has sent me a letter containing 

 the very important informations on the occurrence and habits of 

 the animal, communicated in this paper. 



Now I will proceed to describe the animal, subsequently 

 make mention of its projjagation, its occurrence and biology, 

 then criticise the literature in question, and finally set forth some 

 remarks on its systematic position. 



Literature cited in the following. 



H. DE Saussure: Specilegia Entomologica Genavensia. I. Genre 



Honimcnts. 1879. 4:10. 

 F. Meinert: Om Ordenen Diploglossata (Yidenskabelige Meddel. 



fra d. naturh. Förening i Kjöbenhavn f. Aarene 1879 — 80, 



P. 343—46). 

 H. J. Hansen: Zur Morphologie der Gliedmassen und Mundtheile 



bei Crustaceen und Insecten (Zoologischer Anzeiger, 1893, 



N:o 420 — 21). — - This paper has been translated in: Ann. 



and Mag. Natur. Hist. 6th Ser. Vol. XII, December 1893, 



P- 4^7— 34- 



II. Description. 



a. The body (PI. 2, fig. i and 2) is oblong-ovate, 3 — -^i-i 

 times longer than broad, with the greatest breadth over the se- 

 cond thoracic segment, considerably dejiressed, both the upper 

 and the lower side rather iaintly arched. 



b. The head is directed forward, has somewliat more than 

 half the breadth of the 2!id thoracic segment, is more than twice 



