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HYMENOPTERA. 



3. ^NicTus iNCONSPicuus. Plate II. fig. 15a, 



^Enictus inconspicuus, Westw. Trans. Ent, Soc. Lond. iv. 238. 

 pi. 14. figs. 4, 4 a-(/. 



Hub. South Africa. (Coll. W. W. Saunders, Esq.) 



4. JDnictus pubescens. 



Length 3\ lines. — Rufo-testaceous, densely clothed with pale 

 pubescence : the head black and shining ; "the mandibles and 

 antennae rufo-testaceous ; the ocelli in a curve on the vertex, and 

 situated on the sides of a central elevation ; the mandibles long 

 and curved. The thorax obscure ferruginous ; wings hyaline 

 and iridescent, the nervures and stigma dark brown. Abdomen 

 densely clothed with long decumbent silky pubescence; the 

 peduncle deeply concave above and channeled in the middle, 

 slightly rounded at the sides, the peduncle of the same width as 

 the second segment, the terminal segment obtuse. 



Hab. Northern India. (Coll. F. Smith.) 



This species closely resembles ^nictus ambiguus, from which 

 it differs in being covered with dense long pale silky pubescence ; 

 the anterior margin of the prothorax is much more obtuse, and 

 is notched in the middle; the peduncle is of a different form, 

 for which refer to Plate II. fig. ij. 



Family 6. THYNNID.E, Ericks. 



Genus 1. THYNNUS. 



Thvnnus, Fair. Syst. Ent. 360 (1775). 

 Myzine, pt., Oliv. Encycl. Meth. viii. (1811). 

 Tiphia, pt., Fabr. Syst. Ent. 354 (1775). 

 Myrmecodes, Latr. Noiiv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xx. 2nd ed. 

 Mutilla, pt., Lamarck, Hist. Nat. iv. 2nd ed. 

 Thvnnoides, Gue'r. Vcy. Coq. Zool. ii. 232 (1830). 

 Agi-iomyia, Guer. Voy. Coq. Zool. ii. 218 (1830). 

 Lophocheilus, Guer. Voy. Coq. Zool. ii. (1842). 

 Enteles, Westw. Arc. Ent. ii. 143 (1843-45). 

 Catocheilus, Guer. Mag. Zool. (1842). 

 Erione, Westw. Arc. Ent. ii. 144 (1843-45). 



In this Catalogue the Thynnidce are divided generically on 

 the differences of neuration in the anterior wings. After a careful 

 examination of several extensive collections of Thynnidce, that 

 in particular of the British Museum, we find that the palpi 

 differ in the number of joints in the males and females of the 



