Fr 
130 Prof. Westwood’s Observations on the 
for that purpose, which enables me to state that the 
external organs of generation agree with those of the 
typical males of Scleroderma. Here then we have 
another species with apterous males provided with ocelli 
and large lateral eyes, just as in the case of Scleroderma 
linearis. 
One of the maxille of this male is represented in 
Plate VI., fig. 8b. It agrees with Plate VI., fig. 7), 
from the winged specimen of the male from Prevesa 
above described, and figured in Plate VL., fig. 7, except 
that the maxillary palpi are clearly 5-jointed, as shown 
quite satisfactorily in both maxille on careful dissection. 
I have little doubt that when the female of this species 
is discovered it will be found necessary to separate it 
generically from Cephalonomia. 
APENESIA. 
Westw. Thes. Ent., p. 170. 
The species of this genus, of which only females have 
been hitherto observed, might easily be mistaken for 
species of Mutillide, but the 18-jointed antenne of 
these insects separate them from all the Aculeated 
Hymenoptera, and prove their relationship with Sclero- 
derma and its allies. In addition to the characters 
of the genus laid down in my ‘ Thesaurus,’ the peculiar 
structure of the legs is to be noticed; they are short 
and robust, the anterior leg is not strongly spined, but 
the tibie are terminated by two spurs, and the basal 
joint of the tarsus is lunate and armed on the under 
side with a row of very fine short bristles (Plate VIL, 
fig. 3b); the middle legs, on the contrary, are very 
robust, the tibie strongly serrated on the outer margin, 
and the spurs finely spined; in the middle leg the tarsi 
are longer than the tibie, and have the under-side of the 
three basal joints finely spined (fig. 8c.) The structure 
of the middle legs leads us to infer the fossorial habits 
of the insects, although the anterior and hind tibiz are 
comparatively simple (fig. 3d.) 
The type of the genus is from the Amazons, but I 
possess a species from Nicaragua (Chontales), and the 
two insects described by Mr. F. Smith as Scleroderme 
(S. modesta from Mysol, New Guinea, and S. parasitica 
from Salwatty) belong to the genus. 
