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punctured thorax is Ophion imitilis Sm., No. 2. Trans. 

 Entom. Soc, 1878, p. 2, but that appears to be a quite 

 different form, O. mutilis, No. 2, having the nervures and 

 stigma ferruginous, while in our species the stigma is 

 black, without a tint of reddish colour ; no mention 

 being made of any yellow colour in the eyes in O. inutilis. 

 I write " O. inutilis^ No. 2," for Smith actually described 

 in the Trans. Entom. Soc, 1876, p. 478, another O. inutilis, 

 which is treated as identical with the 1878 specimen by 

 Kirby {Trans. Entom. Soc, 1881, p. 45). The 1876 

 specimen has also no yellow on the head, nor is there any 

 mention of the thorax being punctured, as it is said to be 

 in No. 2. 



PANISCUS EPHIPPIATUS Sm. 



Apparently a common species, if I have correctly 

 identified our species with Smith's, whose description is not 

 clear. He says, " mesothorax black," which would mean 

 the entire mesothorax ; but lower down he says, " sternum 

 black," words which are unnecessary if the whole meso- 

 thorax is black. In the Grey mouth example only the 

 mesonotum and mesosternum are black ; the orbits are 

 obscure yellow ; the stigma and nervures dark fuscous. 

 The face is closely, the clypeus more widely, punctured ; 

 the tips of the mandibles black ; the ocellar region deep- 

 black ; the outer ocelli bordered by a distinct furrow on 

 the outer side. The black on the mesonotum does not 

 extend to the sides, nor to the edge of the central lobe. 

 The basal half of the propleurae obliquely striated ; the 

 upper half of the mesopleurae closely punctured ; the 

 centre at the base rough ; the lower part punctured ; the 

 metapleurae closely punctured above, the lower part 

 irregularly longitudinally striated ; the scutellum closely 

 punctured, the sides sharply keeled. The median segment 

 coarsely and closely transversely striolated, more strongly 



