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side of the scutellum, dark fuscous ; the wings hyaline, with a slight 

 fuscous stain along the anterior margin of the superior pair. Abdomen 

 fuscous, darkest towards the apex, with a yeUow fascia on the posterior 

 margin of all the segments. 

 Hab. Mexico. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE IV. 



Ftff. 1. Meranoplus striatus ^ . 



Fig. 2. Meranoplus subpilosus ^ . 



Ficf. 3. Cryptocerus laminatus ^ . 



Fig. 4. Cryptocerus bimaculatus § . 



Fig. 5. Crgptocertis granclinosus § . 



Fig. 6. Strumigenys mandihularis $ . 



Fig. 7. Strtimigenys mandihularis § . 



Fig. 8, Antenna of Strumigenys 5 . 



Fig. 9. Antenna of St7'umigenys ^ . 



Fig. 10. Mandible of Strumigenys $ . 



Fig. 11. Mandible of Strumigenys ^ . 



Fig. 12. Head of Ceratubasis singularis 5 • 



Fig. 13. Wing of Ceratobasis singularis § . 



Fig. 14. Myrmicocrypta squamosa $ . 



Fig. 15. Wing of Myrmicocrypta squamosa 5 . 



Fig. 16. Antenna of Myrmicocrypta squamosa. 



Fig. 17. Mandible of Myrmicocrypta squamosa. 



Fig. 18. Philanthus cementaritcs 5 . 



VII. — O/i the Coleoptera of the Salvages. By T. Vernon Woilaston, 

 M.A., F.L.S. 



The peculiar position of the almost inaccessible rocks of the Salvages, 

 which lie in the direct course from Madeira to the Canaries, though 

 somewhat nearer to the latter than to the former, give them an espe- 

 cial interest in the eyes of geographical naturalists, — particularly 

 those, however, who have had an opportunity of studying the pro- 

 ductions of the two neighbouring groups. The qucestio vexata, as to 

 whether these several Atlantic islands are not, in reality, the mere 

 exponents or outposts of an immense continent now for the most 

 part submerged, may perhaps never be solved ; yet certainly one of 

 the best methods of helping towards a solution is carefully to 

 examine the fauna and flora of what seem to be its detached por- 

 tions, and then closely to compare them with each other, in order to 

 ascertain whether they possess sufficient in common (after every 

 reasonable allowance has been made for the accidental intermission 



