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than the body ; first joint long and slender ; second long cup-shaped ; 

 third and following joints successively increasing in breadth ; club 

 pale brown, elliptical, much broader than the ninth joint and more 

 than twice its length : chest short, broad : abdomen nearly round, 

 smooth, shining, depressed, rather shorter and narrower than the 

 chest : legs pale yellow, of moderate length : wings rudimentary. 

 Length of the body ^ line. 



Ireland. In Mr. Haliday's collection. 



Myina annulipes (Haliday MSS.), mas. Lutea, pedibus flavis, 

 mesotibiis apice nigris, alis limpidis. 



Body luteous, linear : head and chest convex, slightly shining : 

 head as broad as the chest : abdomen obconical, depressed, apparently 

 quite sessile, a little shorter than the chest : eyes and eyelets pitch- 

 colour : feelers luteous, filiform, a little longer than the body ; first 

 joint yellow, long and slender; second short; third, fourth and fifth 

 long ; sixth spindle-shaped, a little longer than the fifth : legs yellow ; 

 tips of middle shanks black : wings colourless ; veins yellow. Length 

 of the body ^ line ; of the wings i line. 



Found at Holywood. In Mr. Haliday's collection. 



Myina livens (Haliday MSS.), fem. Corpore antennisque lividis, 

 pedibus flavis, alis sublimpidis. 



Body narrow, smooth, shining, pale tawny : head a little broader 

 than the chest, prominent in front, marked above with brown : eyes 

 dark red : feelers clavate, very pale tawny, rather longer than the 

 chest ; first joint very pale yellow, long and slender ; second cup- 

 shaped ; the three following joints forming a spindle-shaped club : 

 chest linear, nearly flat, with a channel along the middle ; sutures of 

 the segments indistinct: abdomen slightly increasing in breadth 

 from the base till near the tip, depressed above, not keeled beneath, 

 rather longer and broader than the chest to which it is closely applied : 

 legs pale yellow : wings very narrow, nearly colourless ; veins pale 

 tawny, not reaching the middle of the wing ; ulna hardly longer than 

 the humerus ; radius none ; cubitus very short. Length of the body 

 A line ; of the wings ^ line. 



Chsetostricha dimidiata (Haliday MSS.). Ferruginea, abdomine 

 nigro, antennis pedibusque flavis, his fusco variis, alis basi/uscis. 



Ferruginous : head transverse, short, depressed in front : chest 

 short : fore-chest extremely short : shield of the middle-chest broad ; 

 scutcheon small : abdomen black, smooth, shining, obconic, sessile, 

 hollow above, keeled beneath, a little broader and longer than the 

 chest : legs yellow ; fore-thighs and middle-shanks brown at the 

 base ; midlile- thighs, hind- thighs and hind-shanks brown, the latter 

 yellow beneath and at the tips : feelers nearly spindle-shaped, yellow, 

 about half the length of the body ; first joint long ; second long cup- 

 shaped, brown at the base ; third broad ; fourth, fifth and sixth 

 forming a spindle-shaped club ; sixth joint dart-shaped : fore-wings 

 broad, brown from the base to beyond the middle ; veins brown, not 



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