210 MODERN CLASSIFICATION OF INSECTS. 

( fig. 84. i. Tiphia femorata 9, 2—6. details of ditto). The labrum 
( fig. 84. 2.) is scarcely exserted. The legs are short and robust, the 
tibia being thick, spinose, or denticulated, the basal joint of the tarsi 
being scarcely emarginate. The eyes are often lunate. The antenne 
are generally short, thick, and more or less serrated and convoluted 
in the females. The abdomen is elongate-ovate, and attached by a 
short peduncle. Both sexes are winged, and the females are furnished 
with ocelli, as well as the males. The males are generally narrow 
and elongated, with the abdomen terminated by three spines (fig. 84. 
9.). The body is often very hirsute. Some of the species, which 
are for the most part exotic, are of a very large size, but the habits 
of the majority are unknown ; we may, however, judge from analogy, 
that the majority, on account of the structure of the legs of the fe- 
males, burrow in sand. 
Latreille, in his later works, has divided this family into the Sco- 
lietes and Sapygides ; the former distinguished by the thick spined 
legs and short convoluted antennz ; and the latter by the slenderness 
of the legs and long straight antenne. Dr. Leach accordingly formed 
them into the two families Scoliadz and Sapygide. In his Genera 
Crustaceorum, however, Latreille more naturally united them into one 
family. Ihave, therefore, considered them only as subfamilies. 
The relation of these insects with the Mutillidae is very close; the 
males of the Mutillideous genus Methoca having been placed by 
Latreille in the subfamily Scoliides, under the name of Tengyra, and 

Westwood, in Proceed. Zool. Soc. 1835. (Meria, Anodontyra. ) 
Fabricius, Rossi, Panzer, Savigny (Egypte), Brullé (Morea), Perty(Delectus Brasiliz). 
Griffith (An. K.), Guérin and Percheron (Genera). 
