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blancs, a I'extremite de rabdomen. Yeux noirs bordes 

 de blanc au cote interieur et separes par une ligne 

 longitudinale, rouge. Antennes rougeatres a base 

 jaune tres-pale. Queue, pattes et dessous du corps^ 

 jaune pale. Deux taches blanches de chaque cote en 

 dessous du ventre." 



Longueur : 1^ millimetre. 



Sur les mousses vers la fin de I'automne ; tres-rare ; 

 trouvee a la roclie de TErmitage, pres de NeucMtel. 

 Cette espece n'est peutetre qu'une variete de I'espece 

 precedente. 



Papirius nigromaculakis, Lubbock. 



Smynthurus signatus, Temp. Trans. Ent. Soc, vol i. 

 Papirius nigromaculatus, Lubbock. Trans. Linn. Soc, 1862. 



Plate X. 



Yellow ; eyes, ocelli, and a patch on the pos- 

 terior part of the back. Large specimens are a 

 little mottled on the back with light brown, and on 

 each side there is a pale band, which surrounds the 

 black patch, and then passes forwards and outwards. 

 Legs and belly pale. A^itennte a little darker, except 

 at the base. 



Length ^gof an inch. 



Found, in spring and summer, under dead pieces of 

 wood in Kent. Common. 



In the form of its different organs, this species much 

 resembles P. orncdtis. The two black spots, which 

 I suppose to be ocelli, are more distinct. 



The antenna are very like those of that species. 

 The mandibles have respectively five and six teeth. 



The anterior legs and feet very closely resemble 

 those of P. ornatus, and the posterior feet differ 

 slightly, if at all. The filament (c), however, 

 appeared to be shorter, and the inner claw had only- 

 one tooth on the outer margin. Still P. ornatus 



