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black, but beneath near base piceous ; petiole about twice as long 

 as thick, yellowish. 



Balthazar. Described from two female specimens. 



Distinguished from other species by the longer funicular joints 

 and by the petiole. 



(7) Ph^nopeia simillima, Ashm. 1. c. p. 254. 



Balthazar and Mount Gay Estate. 

 Originally described from St. Vincent. 



(8) PhjEnopria magniclatata, sp. n. 



5 . Length 1 mm. PoUshed black ; antennae, except club, and 

 legs reddish-yellow ; club abnormally large, 3-jointed, black (some- 

 times with the first joint pale) ; wings hyaline, ciliated, the stigma 

 piceous. 



Head globose ; antennae 12-jointed, shorter than the body ; 

 funicle 6-jointed, as long as the scape, all the joints, except the 

 first, moniliform, not longer than wide, the first a little longer 

 than wide ; club very large, S-joiuted, the first joint transverse, 

 subquadrate, the second larger, wider, quadrate, while the third 

 is still larger, oblong, one-half longer than the second. Pronotum 

 at sides and the metapleura clothed with a glittering white pubes- 

 cence. Abdomen oblong-oval, the petiole short, a little wider 

 than long. , 



Grand Etang and Mount Gay Estate. Described from three 

 female specimens. 



6. On the Buccal Glands and Teeth of certain Poisonous 

 Snakes. By G. S. West, A.R.C.S., Scholar of St. John's 

 College, Cambridge.^ 



(Slates XLIV.-XLVI.) 

 [Eeceived October 8, 1895.] 



The structiu-e, arrangement, and relationships of the buccal 

 glands and teeth of poisonous Snakes, although an extremely 

 interesting subject, is one upon which very little work has been 

 recently done. Conspicuous among recent papers is one by 

 Niemann ^, deaUng with the structure and relationships of the 

 glands of the upper lip in a few genera ^ My own observations 

 differ considerably from his in many points. He describes and 

 figures the glands as consisting of long convoluted tubules, whex'eas 



1 From the Biological Laboratory of the Eoyal College of Science. 



' F. Niemann, " Beitrage zur Morphologie und Physiologie der Oberlippen- 

 drusen einiger Ophidier." Arch. f. Nat. 1892, Band i. Heft 3. 



^ He deads only with three genera of Opisthoglyphous Snakes, one species of 

 each of the following: — Tragops {T. prasinus, which he figures, t. xiv. f. 5), 

 Bipsas {B. annulata), and Psammodynastes (P. pulverulentus). 



