212 Mr. A. Murray o» Rhipiphorus paradoxus. 
There are no maxillz. 
There are no antennz or indication of antenne. 
There are no palpi or Mar are of palpi. 
The labium is not define 
The thorax is rather developed and bears on each segment 
on each side of the dorsal line a prominent round crystalline 
knob with an accessory external addition on the last two seg- 
ments. e first segment is turned vertically downwards, 
+he second is obliquely placed ; the last is horizontal at the top, 
„avre the head is in most other insects. 
ach segment of the thorax bears two short legs—those 
on the first segment the smallest, on the last the largest. 
The legs consist of three short rapidly tapering ‘segments. 
They are very short, very obtuse, each segment diminishing 
as it pa from the body, and all starting from the swollen 
rounded mammiform margins of the thoracic segments. The 
underside of the thorax is concave. 
e segments of the abdomen (with the exception of the 
last two) are very deeply and vaste separated ; the first 
segment has dorsal knobs like the preceding thoracic segment, 
as large but not so crystalline ; the second segment has only an 
indication of them; the rest are insi ek er x 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE XIV. 
Fig. 1. Section of closed cell with lid torn off, showing what I suppose 
to be an egg of Rhipiphorus near the mouth (slightly magnified). 
Fig. 2. The supposed egg in fig. 1, more e ugue ed. 
Fig. 3. Wasp-grub taken des a closed cell, with a young Rhipiphorus 
its 
Fig. 4. beds Shane taken from. a closed cell, with a young Rhipiphorus in 
ike a baby. 
Fig. 5. phorus vid with i wasp-grub nearly consumed ; side view; mag- 
ni our 
Fig. 6. The same; Tre RES front view. 
Fig. 7. The same; ; three-quarters back view. 
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