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182 Prof. Westwood’s Observations on the 
Apenesia parasitica. 
Scleroderma parasitica, Smith, Journ. Proc. Linn. Soe., 
vol. vili., p. 79. 
“‘§. rufo-picea levis, nitida ; abdomine cingulato. 
“9. Length 2 lines. Rufo-piceous, smooth and 
shining; the anterior parts of the head, the antenne, 
and legs rufo-testaceous ; the posterior margins of the 
segments of the abdomen dark rufo-piceous.”’ 
Hab. Salwatty (Wallace). In Mus. Hopeiano Oxonize 
(olim Saunders). 
This species is smaller than A. Chontalica, being 
nearer to A. modesta; its abdomen, however, is not so 
elongate as in that species, and its dark pitchy colour 
distinguishes it from any of the other species. 
PRISTOCERA. 
Klug, Weber, and Mohr, Beitr. z. Naturk. u1., p. 202. 
It is to this genus that the insect described in my 
monograph on Scleroderma under the name of S. con- 
tracta (Trans. Ent. Soe. ii., p. 169), from Carolina, should 
be referred. The type of the genus (Bethylus depressus, 
Fabr., Syst. Piez., p. 237) is a native of Middle and 
South Europe, the female of which was first described and 
figured in my ‘Thesaurus Entomologicus,’ Plate XXX., 
fig. 4. The figure is here reproduced (Plate VIL., fig. 6), 
for comparison with the other insects immediately allied 
to it, represented in my figures now published. A speci- 
men of the male in the Hopeian collection was taken 
by Mr. Hope in the Archdeacon’s Close at Netley. The 
female was figured from a specimen communicated by 
Signor Costa of Naples. The antennez of the female 
are short and 18-jointed (fig. 6a); the maxillary palpi 
(fig. 6 b) are 6-jointed ; and the labial palpi (fig. 6 ¢) are 
3-jointed). 
Pristocera contracta. 
Scleroderma contracta, Westw., op. cit. supra. 
I have but little doubt, from the general resemblance 
of this insect from Carolina to the female of P. depressa, 
that it is the female of Pristocera atra, Klug, from 
Georgia, in North America. 
