( 541 ) 



portion is claviform, and each club bears on the oater surface nnmerons short, 

 stout spines, which point downwards. Near the base of the handle of each club 

 there are two or three slender bristles. There is no vertical arm to the ninth 



sternite. ? . The seventh tergite is produced into a lobe below the long ante- 



pygidial bristle ; the sternite (text-fig. 14, VII. st.) is longitudinally striated like 

 the eighth segment and the ventral and apical portions of the seventh tergite, and 

 gradually narrows towards the apex, which is truncate, and bears a small sinus. 

 The eighth tergite (VIII. t.) has three to five minute hairs above the stigma, and 

 about as many just below it. The ventral margin of this segment bears six to 



Fig. 14. — Xipkiojjsijlla hippla. 



eight fairly long but very slender bristles, there being about twelve small hairs 

 at and near the ventral niiirgin, and a patch of six or seven on the inside of the 

 segment. Tlie [)ygidial plate is more convex than in the cj, but does not project 

 posteriorly on account of the anal tergite being but very feebly concave near the 

 base. The anal tergite is obtuse, and bears on each side two long slender bristles, 

 all the other bristles being short and thin. The stylet is not (juite three times 

 as long as it is broad, being bottlo-shapi'd, and bearing a long apical bristle and 

 two short suljapical ones, of which the dorsal one is (juite small. The receptaculuiu 

 Beminis has a very large truncate head and a short tail, iuid resembles to some 

 extent a fig, the head being shorter in tlu' second sjn'cinien than in the one 

 figured. 



