170 Mr. J. O. Westwood’s Monograph upon the 
(in Iatitudinis dimidium), contracto, parte postica multo angus- 
tiori, rotundata, punctata ; abdomine elongato-ovato, depresso, 
setis rigidis tecto ; mandibulis acute tridentatis. $ 
Long. corp. lin. 3f. 
Habitat in Carolina. Dom. Zimmerman. 
In Mus. Reg. Berolin. 
Species 14. Scleroderma picea. 
Piceo-nigra, nitidissima ; collare segmentoque basali abdominis 
magis piceis, geniculis antennarum pallidis, tibiis tarsisque magis 
rufescentibus ; abdomine thorace multo latiori. 
Long. corp. 1-1. 
Habitat Previsa in Albania. Dom. S. S. Saunders. 
Species 15. Scleroderma pedunculus. 
Pallidh lutea, capite abdomineque ante medium fulvis ; anten- 
narum articulis apicalibus, mandibulis, oculis petioloque abdomi- 
nis nigris ; pedibus pallidissimis, capite et abdomine thorace 
multo latioribus. 
Long. corp. lin. 1^. 
Habitat in Insula Zante, Augusto. Dom. S. S. Saunders. 
Species 16. Scleroderma minuta. 
Griseo-lutea ; abdomine lato, depresso, piceo ; antennis pedibusque 
pallidissime lutescentibus, oculis nigris. 
Long. corp. lin. 
Habitat Previsa in Albania, Julio, 1838. Dom. S. S. 
Saunders. 
The tin •ee last described species, together with specimens of 
S. cylindrica, and its presumed variety, have been recently (Fe- 
bruary, 1839) brought to England by S. S. Saunders, Esq., who 
has assiduously studied the entomology of Albania, and to whom 
I am indebted for the following interesting particulars relative to 
the habits of these curious insects. 
“ I have found the apterous specimens of Scleroderma in various 
parts : one species ( S . cylindrica) is far from uncommon at Previsa 
and Santa Maura, frequenting houses, and rendering itself par- 
ticularly obnoxious by acutely stinging the exposed parts of the 
body, the greater part of the specimens I have taken having thus 
brought themselves to notice. The small c-astaneous species ( S . 
pedunculus) I have met with at Zante as well as at Previsa, and in 
both cases in the house : indeed I never found any of the apterous 
