SCOLIA? MUTILL^FORMIS. 



Plate XXXVII. fig. 4. 



Order: Hymenoptera. Section: Fossores? Family: Scoliidae? 



Genus. Scolia? Fabr. Lntr. Sphex, Linn. Drury. 



ScoLiA 7 MuTiLL^FORMis. Nigra, capite tlioraceque fulvo pilosis, alarum apicibus fuscis. (Long. Corp. 7 J lin.) 



Stn. Sphex mutillaeforrais, Drwry, App. vol. 2. 



Habitat : Senegal. 



Head and thorax red brown, and hairy. The former furnished with two jaws, and tongueless. Eyes 

 and antennae black, the latter shorter than the thorax. Wings transparent; the anterior being 

 cloudy at their extremities, and along the anterior edges. Abdomen, and hinder part of the thorax, 

 blaclv and hairy. All the legs full of bristles ; the hinder ones having two long spines at the tarsi and 

 tibial joints. One of the sexes is much larger than the other. 



Mr. Kirby (Monographia Apum Anglise, Vol. II. p. 377.) has given this figure as a 

 synonym of Andrena thoracica. This can however scarcely be correct, for not only does 

 the locality given by Drury seem sufficiently to indicate a species distinct from our English 

 insect, but the colour of the head is also different. Moreover, it appears to me that the 

 description given by Drury, united to the curved antennae virhich appear to he faithfully 

 represented in the figure, and especially the character of the legs, are evidently intended 

 for a fossorial rather than a melliferous Hymenopterous insect. 



LEPISMA COLLARIS. 



Plate XXXVII. fig. 5. 



Order: Tliysanura, ieae/t. ilptei'a, p. iin/i. Family: LepismidsD. 



Genus. Lepisma, Linn. 



Lepisha Collaris. Obscure plumbea, fascia coUaris apiceque abdominis argenteo-niveis, cauda triplici villosS.. 

 (Long. Corp. cum seta interm. 12 lin.) 



Si'N. Lepisma collaris, Fabr. Ent. Syst. 2. 64. No. 5. 



Lepisma saccliaria, Drury, App, vol. 2. (nee Linn.) 



Habitat : Antigua {Drury). " In America3 meridionalis insulis" {Fabr.}. 



Head small and hairy, being concealed beneath the thorax. The upper part shines like silver. 

 Mouth of a greyish colour, and furnished with four palpi, whereo two are long and the other two short 

 and thick. Eyes not to be discerned. Antennae about half the length of the insect ; small, and filiform, 

 but full of joints. Thorax and abdomen dark lead-coloured, shining like polished metal ; being fur- 

 nished along their sides with short hairs. The former has a cream-coloured stripe crossing it from side 

 to side ; it is also margined. In some specimens, the middle part of the abdomen, from the thorax to 

 the tail, is of a silvery white ; but in others the last ring only is so. At the extremity of the abdomen 

 are placed three tails, of equal lengths, like bristles, but very hairy. These tails are in length about 

 one-third of the whole insect ; and, when the creature is alive, are always carried in the position repre- 



