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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
S'pinolcB (Shuck.) = australis (Sauss.) = tasmanicus (Smith) ; P. auratus 
(Shuck.) is not, as stated that author, from the Cape of Good Hope but 
from Australia, p. 290. P. nitidus (Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1868, 
p. 248) is distinct from nitidus (Smith, Journ. Proc. Linn. Soc. Zool. iii. 
p. ICO) j and the name of the former must be changed to fenestratus (Smith), 
p. 201. 
Smith (/. c. pi. (J. fig, 7) has figured the wing of his IHsonitus mijosus. 
New genera : — 
Pseudosphex, g. n., Taschenb. 1. c. p. 420. Radial cell of ant. wings oval, 
not appendiculated j first and second cubital cells respectively receiving the 
first and second recurrent nervures ; head oblique, wider than metathorax j 
antennae inserted in the middle of forehead ; clypeus wide and short j man- 
dibles tridentate at apex ) claws of tarsi unidentate beneath. Sp. P. 2>umilio, 
sp. n., ibid., Mendoza. 
Parapodium, g. n., Tasch. 1. c. p. 423. Radial cell of ant. wings elongate, 
attached to the radius at its apex ; first cubital cell taking the first recurrent 
nervure, the second cubital cell subtriangular, and receiving the second ner- 
vure ; head short, face orbicular, antennae inserted beneath its middle j man- 
dibles simple ; thorax elongate, subcylindric j abdomen lanceolate, scarcely 
longer than the petiole ; claws of tarsi unidentate in the middle. Sp. P. 
biguttatum, sp. n., ibid., Venezuela. 
Parapsammophila, g. n., Tasch. 1. c. p. 429. Radial cell of ant. wings 
rounded at apex, not appendiculated ; second cubital cell joined to the radial 
cell, and receiving both -the recurrent nervures; third cubital cell closed in 
front and behind ; hinder part of first segment of abdomen narrowed, but 
the petiole not biarticulate ; claws of tarsi bidentate at base ; anterior tarsus 
of $ pectinate ; mandibles dentate in the middle. Sp. P. miles, sp. n., 
p. 430, lateritia and lutea, spp. nn., p. 431, Ohartuni. 
Ammoplanus, g. n., Giraud, Ann. Soc. lilnt. Fr. 4“ sdr. ix. p. 469, pi. 12. 
f. 1. Near Celia. Head broad, flattened in front; antennae inserted close to 
the mouth. Stigma ovoid, iiicrassated ; radial cell very short, transverse; 
cubital cells two, of which only the first is closed, receiving the recurrent 
nervure near its middle ; two complete discoidal cells. Tibiae and tarsi 
without spines. Abdomen subpetiolated. Sp. A. wes^naeli, sp. n., p. 470, 
Vienna ; A. perrisi, sp. n., p. 472, Spain. 
Acanthostethus, g. n.. Smith, /. c. p. 306, pi. 6. Ocelli placed in a curve. 
Antennae gradually thickened to the apex. Clypeus transverse, its lateral 
angles subdentate; mandibles edentate, acute; labrum concealed. IMeta- 
thorax with two stout acute spines. One marginal cell, extending more 
than halfway to the apex of the wing, and two submarginal cells, the first 
longer than the marginal, and more than twice as long as the triangular 
second submarginal ; first recurrent nervure entering the first submarginal 
cell towards its apex, the second uniting with the first transverso-cubital 
nervure. Abdomen subsessile, ovoido-conic ; first ventral segment produced 
at the base, forming an obtuse angle. Genus founded on the characters of 
the 2 only, and resembling Nysson. Sp. A. hasalis, sp. n., p. 307, pi. 6. fig. 3, 
Australia. 
Aidacophilus, g. n., Smith, 1. c. p. 305, pi. 6. Eyes large, deeply eniargi- 
nate.- Anterior margin of the clypeus rounded ; mandibles edentate. An- 
