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is.restricted to annulioomis, Burm., arid allies. Paer remains as intended by 
Lefebvre. Ascalajjluis is restricted to the well-lmown black and yellow 
European forms. In all about 103 species are noticed. The following are 
the new genera and species : — 
Cormodes. Eyes simple ; wings elongate, not appendiculate ; antennas ro- 
bust; abdomen of d without appendices. Type Ascalaphus intractabilis, Walk. 
Idricerus. Allied to Cormodes, differing in its narrower wings, whereof 
the anterior pair are shallowly excised at base of inner margin. Typo A, 
decrepitus, 
Melamhrotm. Eyes simple j wings long, very narrow> anterior pair 
appendiculate ; antennae short and stout, only about half the length of the 
wings ; abdomen without appendices in cf ; legs short. Type M, simia, 
sp, n., p. 241, Damara Land. 
Tmesihasis, proposed for A. laccmtus, Ilag., whereof the characters aro 
pointed out in the original description. 
Acmonotus, Eyes divided, divisions nearly equal j wings very narrow, not 
appendiculate; antennae short; abdomen of with a pair of short 
Appendices, and an enormous conical hump above at its base. Type A. in-- 
cudifer, sp, n., p. 253, W. Australia. 
■ Siphlocerus. Eyes with lower division much smaller than the Upper; 
wings narrow, not appendiculate ; antennae short, those of c? twisted and 
subserrate in the apical half ; abdomen of S with a pair of short forcipate 
appendages. Typo Walk. 
• Ilelicomitus. Allied to Buho and Siphlocerus, but in the c? the antennae are 
irregularly sinuous in the basal half, and the abdomen is without appendages. 
Typo : A, insimulans. Walk. 
Bneyoposis. Eyes very large, the upper division more than twice the 
size of tlie lower ; wings moderately broad, not appendiculate ; antennae 
shorter than wings ; abdomen of d very stout, constricted at base, and with 
a pair of large forcipate appendages. Type A. Jlavilinea, Walk. 
Glyptohasis. Allied to Ilyhris, but anterior wings narrowed and Up** 
pendiculate at base ; abdomen of cf with a pair of short claw-shaped 
appendages. Type A. dentifer, Westw. 
Nephoneura. Allied to Proctar relab is. Anterior wings appendiculate. 
Type A. capensis, Eab. 
Ilelcopteryx. Allied to Proctarrelabis, 3 terminal segments of abdomen 
of S with a wing-like lateral dilatation ; appendages of J small and claw- 
shaped. Type Buho rhodiogj'amnms, Ramb. 
Ascalaphodes. Allied to Puer. cf with antennae serrate internally, and a 
pair of short stout appendgesto abdomen. Type A. canifrons, Westw. 
Ilaploylenmsjlavicornis, Mexico, terminalis, Tapajos, p. 235. 
Ptynx juvenilis, p. 239, Texas. 
TJlula mexica?m, p. 248, Mexico ; ampla, St. Domingo ; aurifera, p. 249, 
Santarem. 
Colobopterus delicatulus, p. 250, Santarem ; integer, p. 251, Brazil f ; dis-^ 
similis, Amazons. 
rently intended to write Proctarrhenolabis, a sesquipedalian name referring 
to the forcipated abdomen of the male. Cf. the same author’s Peleprocto- 
phylla {^^ThelyproctophylUi), referring to an analogous structure in the 
female. — E. C. R.] 
