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Explanation of Plate XVII. 



Fig. 1. Macrolycus jiectinifer, male. 



2. ,, ,, female. 



3. Mesolycus puniceus. 



3 a. Claws of Mad leg of male. 

 3 6. Claws of middle leg of female. 



4. Conderis pieties. 



5. Jjyponia quadricollis, male. 



6. ,, ,, female. 



7. Eros erytlxropterns. 



8. Pristolycus sagulatus. 



9. Lucidina accensa. 



9 a, 9 b. Claws of ditto, male, showing the outer and inner 



claws, middle leg. 

 9 c. Terminal ventral segments of ditto, male. 

 The details of the claws are magnified about 60 diameters. 



