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Head brown orange-coloured. Eyes oblong and dark browii. Antennse thickest towards their 

 extremities. Ocelli distinct. Mouth black, furnished with two jaws, but having neither tongue nor palpi. 

 Thorax black, with a brown orange spot on the top, and two others next the head. Abdomen black and 

 hairy ; the second and third segments having two orange spots on them ; the fourth, fifth, and sixth being 

 ringed with orange. Under side black, with some orange hairs near the anus. Wings plain and flat, 

 not folded, of a yellowish colour, and almost diaphanous. Legs black and hairy. Tarsi and articula- 

 tions furnished with strong hairs and spines, which entirely surround them. 



PELECINUS POLITURATOR. 



Plate XL. fig. 4. 



Order: Hymenoptera. Section; Pupivora. Family: Evaniidfe ; 

 Genus. Pelecinus, Fabr. Latr. Ichneumon, Drury. 



Pelecinus Politcrator. Niger, antennis annulo medio albo, tibiis posticis sei'iceo-clilatatis. (Long. Corp. 

 2 unc. 6 lin.) 



Syn. Ichneumon Polyturator (errore pro politurator), Drury, App. vol. 2. 



Pelecinus Polycerator, Fabr. Syst. Piez. 111. 1. Say American Entomology, vol. 1. pi. XV. 

 Habitat: Jamaica, (Drury). " Not uncommon in various parts of the United States " (Say). India (Fabrieius, 

 incorrectly). 



Head small and black. Eyes oblong and dark brown. Antennae black and filiform, having two 

 yellow spots on them near their extremities. Ocelli distinct. Mouth with two jaws, but no tongue, and 

 furnished with four palpi, two of which are long, slender, and filiform ; the others are very short. 

 Thorax black like pitch, and shining, as if finely polished ; as is every part of the insect. Abdomen 

 exceeding long and black, consisting of six articulations ; the last being very short and pointed. Legs 

 small and black ; the hinder tibiaj being remarkably thick and strong in proportion to the other parts. 



The late lamented Mr. Say, who may justly be regarded as the Linnseus of America, 

 says of this truly singular insect, that its flight is slow and awkward, and when taken it 

 endeavours to force the point of the abdomen through the skin of the hand, but its strength 

 is not adequate to the task. The whole abdomen resembles a much elongated pedicle, 

 from which the abdomen itself, or dilated portion, has been accidentally removed. 



LOCUSTA OBSCURA. 



Plate XLI. fig. 1. 



Order : Ortlioptera. Section : Saltatoria. Family : Locustidac. 



Genus. Locusta. Gryllus (Locusta) iinn. GryWus, Fabr. Subgenus: Locusta proper. (Edipoda, 5(>;^^ 



LocusTA Obscura. Thorace Itevi; elytrisfuscis; alls disco rubro, fascia nigra, apice hyalina. (Expaus. Alar. 



2 unc. 3 lin.) 

 Syn. Gryllus obscurus, Liim. Syst. Nat. 1. 2. 701. 50. De Geer Itis. 3. 492. 8. t. 41./. 4. Fabr. Ent. Syst. 



■2. 58. 47. 

 Habitat ; Cape Coast, Africa. 



