MACHILIS. 235 



*' Oomme dans le Lepisma myrmecophila, les filets 

 terminaux sont tres-courts et les antennes ne depassent 

 pas en longueur le thorax ; mais ici tons les appendices 

 lateraux sont visibles en dessus, et la derniere paire est 

 aussi longue que les filets terminaux. 



" Long. 4 millim. Larg. 2 millim. 



" Ce n'est qu'aux environs d' Alger, sous les pierres, 

 vers le milieu de Janvier, que j'ai pris cette curieuse 

 espece ; je ne I'ai rencontree qu'une seule fois." 



Le])ismina formicaria. Von Hey den. 



Atelura formicaria. Yon Hey den. Ent. Zeitung, 1855. 



Egg-shaped, yellow, shining. 



Eyes inconspicuous. Antennae half as long as the 

 body, 11-jointed, setose ; the segments cylindrical, those 

 towards the apex diminishing in size, more egg-shaped 

 and more sharply separated from one another. The 

 second segment has towards the middle of the inner 

 margin a bent tooth. The third segment is longer than 

 the second and fourth. Maxillary palpi 5-jointed, the 

 terminal segment elongated. Labial palpi 4-jointed, 

 the terminal segment short and swollen. 



Terminal segment of abdomen pointed, 4-toothed ; 

 the central appendage ^, the lateral appendages ^th, as 

 long as the body, not distinctly jointed, sparsely covered 

 with hair. 



Length li—2'". 



Germany. In nests of Myrmica ccespitum. 



Von Heyden has proposed for this species a new 

 generic division under the name of Atelura, principally 

 on account of the antennae, which possess only eleven 

 segments. 



Machilis, Latreille. 



Body cylindrical, covered with scales ; prothorax 

 arched. Antennas longer than the body, inserted in 



