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MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 
[EIGHTH SERIES.] 
ES ieusddeatneuserees per litora spargite muscum, 
Naiades, et circiim vitreos considite fontes: 
Pollice virgineo teneros hic carpite flores: 
Floribus et pictum, dive, replete canistrum. 
At vos, o Nymphe Craterides, ite sub undas; 
Ite, recurvato variata corallia trunco 
Vellite muscosis e rupibus, ef mihi conchas 
Ferte, Dez pelagi, et pingui conchylia succo.” 
NV. Parthenii Giannettasi, Eol, 1, 
Nos tts. JULY. LOZ. 
I.—A Revision of the Wasps of the Genus Tachytes inhabiting 
the Ithiopian Region. By Row ann E. Turner, F.Z.S., 
F.E.S. 
Tue following notes on the Ethiopian species of Tachytes 
are based on the collection in the British Museum, which is 
rich in species from Nyasaland and Uganda, but poor 
in species from West Africa and the dry regions of South 
Africa. The species run very close, and are most easily 
distinguished by the distance between the eyes on the vertex, 
the sculpture of the vertex, the shape of the pygidial area in 
the female, and of the seventh tergite and eighth sternite 
in the male, by the colour and distribution of the pubescence, 
the colour of the legs, and by the number of spines on the 
basal joint of the fore tarsus. In some of the larger females 
the sculpture of the second and third sternites is also 
important. The mouth-parts might also be of considerable 
use, but I have not had sufficient material available to use 
them as extensively as I could wish; there is, however, 
considerable variation in the palpi, in the length of the 
galea, and in the form of the ligula. The details of neuration, 
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