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very slight! J incurved. Antennae pubescent, about 50-jointed, 

 joints 3 and 4 annular, joint 5 the longest, the remainder 

 cylindrical, hardly longer than broad in the middle, and 

 gradually tapering and lengthening towards the extremity, 

 the last conical ; tips of mandibles black ; ocelli very large, 

 filling up the space between the eyes on the vertex, black, 

 except extreme front of the frontal ocellus beneath, and the 

 outer sides of the two hinder ocelli. Thorax and abdomen 

 very finely and closely punctured ; mesothorax with two 

 converging lines slightly yellower than the ground-colour, 

 but only carinated at the lateral borders ; metathorax also 

 with a middle carina. Abdomen very large, raised, and 

 somewhat compressed laterally. Hind legs longer than the 

 others ; all the tibiae armed with a pair of terminal spines. 

 Wings rather broad, yellowish hyaline, more strongly tinged 

 with yellow at the base and along the costal area of the hind 

 wings, and towards the tip a little smoky, especially on the 

 hind wings. Nervures rufous along the costa and towards 

 the inner margin ; otherwise blackish. Anterior wings with 

 3 bullae — one on the lower curve of the cell near its extremity, 

 one on the recurrent nervule, and the third on the cross- 

 nervule running upw^ards from the extremity of the internal 

 nervure. 



The Ophionidffi of Africa are rather numerous, but very 

 few have yet been described. 



Family Evaniidse. 

 Evania Icevigata. 

 Eva7iia lavigata, Latr. Gen. Crust. Ins. iii. p. 251 (1807). 



The species of this curious genus, though rare in England, 

 are common in many countries, and are believed to be para- 

 sitic on cockroaches. 



Section ACULEATA. 

 Subsection Heterogyna. 



Family Formicidae. 

 Subfamily Forziicinje. 

 Camponotus maculatus. 

 Forymca maculata, Fabr. Spec. Ins. i. p. 491. n. 15 (1781). 

 A common African species. 



