1 68 ORDER IV. Raphidia, 



Genus VII. Raphidia, 



Linn. Syft, Nat. Pag, 915. 



The head of the Raphidia is of a horny 

 fubftance, and depreffed, or flattened. 



The mouth is armed with two teeth, and 

 furnifhed with four palpi. 



The ftemmata are three in number. 

 The wings are deflected. 



The antenna are as long as the thorax, 

 the anterior part of which is lengthened 

 out, and of a cylindrical form. 



The tail of the female is terminated by 

 an appendix refembling a flexible, crooked 

 briflle. 



Schaeffer obferves, that the antennas of the 

 Raphidise are fetaceous, and their tarfi com: 

 pofed of four articulations. 



According to Geoffroy, the wings are incum- 

 lent* rather than dtflefted, and the antennas fili- 

 form. 



The 



