166 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 1892, 



This species apparently falls into the same category as 8p. caudi- 

 culatus of Karsch. It may, however, be recognised by its blunt, 

 straight caudal process, the incompleteness and the varying length 

 of the tergal striae, the separation of the pores from tlie sulcus, &c. 



Spirobolus carnifex, (Fabr.). 



( PL ii, fig. 9. ) 



.Syn. lulus carnifex, Fabr., Sys. Ent., p. 428 ; Spec. Ins., i, p. 530 

 Ent. Sys., ii, p. 395, no. 9. 



„ S'piroholus carnifex, Brandt, Recueil., p. 188; Gei'vais, Ins. Apt. 

 iv, p. 163 (1847); C. Koch, Die Myr., i 

 p. 62, fig. 53(1863). 

 „ S'piroholus ruficoUis, Newport, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist,, xiii 



p. 269 (1844). 



Mr. Thurston sent two 6 specimens from Madras. The British 

 Museum has it also from Ceylon. The type was described from 

 Tranquebar. Tomosvary has recorded it from Matang in Borneo, 

 but whether correctly or not I am unable to judge, C. Koch has 

 apparently described the right species, but his locality for it, i. e., 

 Georgia (N. America), needs, to my mind, confirmation. 



Newport's species Sp, ruficoUis, the type of which is in the British 

 Museum, is the same as 8p. carnifex. 



This author gives New Holland as the locality, but upon what 

 authority I am unable to determine. At the present time there is not 

 a particle of evidence to show whence the specimens were obtained. 



In the 6 the anterior 6 pairs of legs are curiously modified, the 

 proximal segments being inferiorly produced and somewhat com- 

 pressed ; on the 3rd, 4th and 5th pairs there projects from between 

 the legs an elongate, slender, clavate process which is in contact with 

 its fellow of the opposite side ; the processes are outgrowths of the 

 basal segment of the legs. There appear to be no suctorial pads 

 upon the feet in this sex. 



The anterior unpaired portion of the copulatory foot is composed 

 distinctly of three rami, two projecting obliquely upwards and out- 

 wards to embrace the summits of the lateral moieties and hold them 

 together, the third slender, shorter, and pointed projects in the 

 middle line, far below the lowest point of the anterior portion of the 



