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128 Prot. Westwood’s Observations on the 
The wings, unfortunately, do not lie in a convenient 
position for a clearer view of the stigma than I have 
given in the accompanying figures. 
Cephalonomia? fuscicorns. 
Scleroderma? fuscicornis, Westw. Trans. Ent. Soe. i1., 
OL, Pes sk Ys, Rs dee 
Holopédina fuscicornis, Foerster in Verh. naturhist. 
Ver. Preuss. Rheinl., 7 Jahrg., 1850, p. 151. 
Herr Foerster, having described his genus Holopédina 
founded on my Cephalonomia formiciformis, suggested 
that the two insects which I had doubtingly described in 
my monograph as the males of Scleroderma, were to be 
referred to his new genus. It is, however, with some 
hesitation that I accept this suggestion, as the veins of 
the wings scarcely agree with those of that genus, 
possessing a rudimental median vein, more or less 
distinct, emitting a deflexed branch, although but ill- 
defined, at its posterior extremity, and wanting the 
distinct callous spot at the extremity of the postcostal 
vein. The antenne are 12-jointed and slender. 
This species seems rather widely distributed and to be 
domestic in its habits, as I took a specimen of the male 
in the Ambrosian library at Milan in September, 1862, 
crawling over a vellum MS. of Homer of the 4th century, 
from which I was at the time copying one of the 
illuminations. I took another male, crawling very 
slowly, in the Museum of M. Signoret, in Paris. 
I also received from M. Boyer de Fonscolombe a much 
more minute male specimen than the type figured in 
Trans. Ent. Soc., vol. u. Its body is entirely fulvous and 
slossy, but it is in a very dilapidated condition. The 
fore wings, however, have the postcostal vein dilated at 
its extremity, which is united with an oval callosity near 
the costa, and the median vein is distinct and forked at 
its extremity, the anterior part of the fork united with 
the postecostal (forming a long closed cell) and its 
posterior part forming a deflexed branch into the dise of 
the wing almost as in Scleroderma. 
Sir Sidney S. Saunders also took another male at 
Prevesa, in Albania, on the 27th June, 1842, which 
I have represented in Plate VI., fig. 7, with its details. 
It is rather smaller and more delicately formed than 
the type of the species, but it so closely resembles it that 
