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(in all of which the insect is represented under precisely the same 

 form) has convinced me that it is intended to represent a Hymeno- 

 pterous insect, and not one of the Diptera. It is in fact more like 

 the figure of a common Wasp than any other ordinary insect ; the 

 appendages of the head, which are obliquely porrected, are evidently 

 intended for antennae, and not for a bipartite proboscis ; the wings, 

 it is true, are only represented as two in number, but as the two on 

 each side of the body in the Hymenoptera are hooked together, they 

 would, by common observers, be regarded as but one ; while the con- 

 tracted form of the base of the abdomen is precisely that of some of 

 the Vespidce figured in the great French work upon Egypt. The 

 Polistes represented in pi. 8. fig. 2 ^J. of that work indeed might al- 

 most be considered as the identical species intended to be represented 

 on the monuments. 



Mr. S. Birch indeed informs me that there is a coloured represen- 

 tation of this hieroglyphic figure on one of the Egyptian monuments 

 in the British Museum, and that the banded colours of the abdomen 

 leave no doubt that it is intended for a Wasp. Moreover the Egyptian 

 name of this insect was the same as that of Upper Egypt, whilst the 

 preceding figure was intended for a reed as emblematical of Lower 

 Egypt, and consequently the two figures indicated the power of the 

 monarch over both these parts of the empire. 



To render this article more complete, I have added descriptions 

 of two more tropical African species of Glossina, from the Collection 

 of the Rev. F. W. Hope, together with that of another remarkable 

 hitherto undescribed genus allied to Glossina, but distinguished by 

 the very singular recurved proboscis and long styliferous abdomen, 

 also from tropical Africa. 



Glossina Tachinoides, Westw. 



Cinerea, faciei striga longitudinali media fulva, epistomate ar- 



genteo-sericeo, thoracis dorso brunneo-maculato, scutello griseo 



maculis duabus brunneis punctisque duobus minutis apicalibus 



nigris, abdominis dorso carneo-griseo segmento singulo maculia 



duabus maximis fuscis, pedibus luteo-albidis, tarsis supra nigris. 



Long. Corp. lin. 4 ; expans. alar. lin. 8^. 



Hab. in Africa occidentali tropicali. (Mus. D. Hope.) 



This species is smaller than the preceding and differently coloured. 



The terminal joint of the antennae is more lunate in form and 



dusky coloured in front ; the palpi are dusky coloured at the tip 



and clothed with black hairs. The upper surface of the thorax is 



ash-coloured, divided across the middle by an impressed hne ; the 



anterior half is marked on each side towards the fore angles with an 



oval brown spot, extending laterally and backwards into a lunate line, 



enclosing a smaller oval spot on each side towards the hinder angles : 



in the middle are two slender abbreviated brown lines, and two minute 



spots resting upon the transverse impressed line over which they are 



extended and dilated into a pair of somewhat larger spots in the middle 



of the upper surface of the thorax, each with a slender transverse line 



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