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furnished with eyes, and appear to differ somewhat in their habits 
from the others, and in this respect, to approximate more closely 
to our Ants. . 
The Negroes and Hottentots consider these Insects as a great 
delicacy. They are destroyed with quick-lime, or more readily with 
arsenic, which is thrown into their habitations. 
The two following species, found in the south of France, live in 
the interior of various trees. 
T. lucifugum, Ross., Faun. Etrusc., Mant. II, v, k. Glossy- 
black; wings brownish, somewhat diaphanous, with the rib more 
obscure; superior extremity of the antenne, tibize and tarsi, 
pale-russet. 
Such has been its excessive multiplication in the work-shops 
and store-houses of the navy-yard at Rochefort, where it does 
much injury, that it is impossible to destroy it. 
T. flavicolle, Fab. This species only differs from the lucifu- 
‘gum in the colour of its thorax. It is very injurious to the 
Olive, particularly in Spain. 
Linnzus has placed the larve of his genus Termes among 
the Aptera, and the winged individuals with the Hemerobii. 
The species foreign to Europe have been but very imper- 
fectly characterized. Linneus confounds several under the 
name of Termes fatale(1). 
In the remaining Termetine the tarsi are biarticulated, and the 
labial palpi indistinct and very short. The antenne consist of 
about ten joints, the first segment of the trunk is very small, and 
the inferior wings are smaller than the others. : 
They form the genus 
Psocus, Lat. Fab.— Termes, Hemerobius, Lin. 
And are very small Insects with a short and extremely soft body 
that is frequently inflated, or as if hump-backed. Their head is 
(1) See Lat., Gen. Crust. et Insect., III, p- 203, and the Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. 
Nat., article Termes. . 
Certain Insects from the southern countries of Europe and of Africa, analogous 
to the Termites, but in which the head is wider than the thorax; where the tarsi 
are triarticulated, the wings hardly extend beyond the abdomen or are wanting; 
where the legs are compressed, and the two anterior tibiz are the widest; where 
the simple eyes are wanting, and the thorax is elongated, form the genus I have 
indicated in my Fam. Nat. du Reg. Anim., under the name of Emn14; it is figured 
in the great work on Egypt. 
