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appendages of the head, which are obliquely porrected, are evidently 
intended for antennse, and not for a bipartite proboscis; the wings, 
it is true, are only represented as two in number, but as the two on 
each side of the body in the Hymenoptera are hooked together, they 
would, by common observers, be regarded as but one ; while the con¬ 
tracted form of the base of the abdomen is precisely that of some of 
the Vespidce figured in the great French work upon Egypt. The 
Polistes represented in pi. 8. fig. 2 J 1 . of that work indeed might al¬ 
most be considered as the identical species intended to be represented 
on the monuments. 
Mr. S. Birch indeed informs me that there is a coloured represen¬ 
tation of this hieroglyphic figure on one of the Egyptian monuments 
in the British Museum, and that the banded colours of the abdomen 
leave no doubt that it is intended for a "Wasp. Moreover the Egyptian 
name of this insect was the same as that of Upper Egypt, whilst the 
preceding figure was intended for a reed as emblematical of Lower 
Egypt, and consequently the two figures indicated the power of the 
monarch over both these parts of the empire. 
To render this article more complete, I have added descriptions 
of two more tropical African species of Glossina , from the Collection 
of the Rev. F. AV. Hope, together with that of another remarkable 
hitherto undescribed genus allied to Glossina , but distinguished by 
the very singular recurved proboscis and long styliferous abdomen, 
also from tropical Africa. 
Glossina Tachinoides, Westw. (PL XIX. fig. 2.) 
Cinerea, faciei striga longitudinali media fulva, epistomate ar- 
genteo-sericeo , thoracis dorso brunneo-maculato, scutello griseo 
maculis daabus brunneis punctisque duobas minutis apicalibus 
nigris , abdominis dorso carneo-griseo segmento singulo maculis 
duabus maximis fuscis, pedibus luteo-albidis, tarsis supra nigris. 
Long. corp. lin. 4 ; expans. alar. lin. 8 t§* 
Hab. in Africa occidentali tropicali. (Mus. D. Hope.) 
This species is smaller than the preceding and differently coloured. 
The terminal joint of the antennse is more lunate in form and 
dusky coloured in front; the palpi are dusky coloured at the tip 
and clothed with black hairs. The upper surface of the thorax is 
ash-coloured, divided across the middle by an impressed line; the 
anterior half is marked on each side towards the fore angles with an 
oval brown spot, extending laterally and backwards into a lunate line, 
enclosing a smaller oval spot on each side towards the hinder angles : 
in the middle are two slender abbreviated brown lines, and two minute 
spots resting upon the transverse impressed line over which they are 
extended and dilated into a pair of somewhat larger spots in the middle 
of the upper surface of the thorax, each with a slender transverse line 
extending from it to the sides of the thorax, where it meets a curved 
lateral brown line enclosing a fainter oval spot, the hind extremity of 
each of which nearly joins, at the hinder angles of the back of the tho¬ 
rax, a straight line running forwards into the disk, where it vanishes. 
