306 Mr. S. Hirst (yn a new Species of 



tlie species from S.E. Australia are very poorly represented 

 in the British Museum, and will probably prove to be more 

 numerous than is indicated in this paper. 



Tachytes (?) nigripes, Sauss. 



Larrada nigripes, Sauss. Reise d. * Novara,' Zool. ii., Hymen, p. 74 

 (1867). $. 



Schulz (Zool. Ann. p. 191, 1911) described the specimen 

 now bearing the type-label in iSaussure's collection. It is, 

 however, a male, and has a head, whereas Saussure describes 

 his species as female and implies that the type is headless, 

 Schulz considers the generic position as intermediate between 

 Tachytes and Nologonia, but nearest to the former. The 

 locality given by iSaussure is Tasmania, but the localities of 

 the ' Novara' are most unreliable, and the species may not be 

 Australian. 



Tachytes australis, Sauss. (Reise d. ' Novara,' Zool. ii., 

 Hymen, p. 69, 1867, S), is doubtless a Tachysphex -, and 

 T. femoratus, Sauss., and T. ausfralis, Sauss. (1854, nee 

 1867), belong respectively to Larra and Notogonia. 



Tachytes tarsatus, Sm., an Indian species, was recorded by 

 me as Australian (Proc. Zool. ISoc. Loudon, p. 348, 1910) 

 owing to an error in identification ; in the same paper I 

 also included T. australis, Sauss. (1867), as a Tachytes. 



XXXIII. — On a new Species of Solpnga. from the Belgian 

 Congo. By Stanley Hirst. 



(Published by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.) 



Solpuga hewittij sp. n. 



^^ — Chelicera. Basal enlargement of flagellum rather 

 high and shaped like an ear. Free portion of flagellum 

 short, being much less than half the length of the chelicera ; 

 it arises above the second tooth, and at first is fairly wide and 

 flattened dorso-ventrally ; towards the middle of its length, 

 however, it is rotated sideways, becoming higher than wide, 

 and is furnished with a short little keel crowned with den- 

 ticles ; distal end of flagellum slender and bifurcated, con- 

 sisting of a sharp little spine and a minute soft twisted 



