Part 41

SYN. Sphex ferus, Drury, App. vol. 3.

Sphex lobata? Fabr. Ent. Syst. 2. 206. 30. Syst. Piez. 217.

HABITAT: China.

Head fine green. Jaws strong. Tongue not observed. Eyes oblong. Antennæ black. Wings thin and diaphanous. Thorax and abdomen beautiful shining emerald green. Legs black.

The description given by Drury of this insect entirely agrees with a very common Chinese insect, the Chlorion lobatum, Latr. This figure is however hardly to be recognized.

{57}ATTA FERVENS.

Plate XLII. fig. 3.

ORDER: Hymenoptera. SECTION: Heterogyna. FAMILY: Formicidæ, Leach.

GENUS. ATTA, Fabr. Latreille. Formica, Linn. Drury.

ATTA FERVENS. Fusca, sericea, alis fuscis, capitis angulis posticis rotundatis. (Expans. Alar. 2 unc. 6 lin.)

SYN. Formica fervens, Drury, App. vol. 2. Say in Journ. of Nat. Hist. Soc. of Boston, p. 290.

HABITAT: Musquito Shore, on the Bay of Mexico.

Antennæ small, setaceous, and shorter than the thorax. Head dark brown, small and flat, armed with strong jaws. Eyes small, round and black. Thorax and abdomen dark brown, and velvety. Wings brown and diaphanous. Legs coloured like the body, without any spines at any of the joints; neither is there any abdominal peduncle.

This insect (which appears to be a queen or female ant) is nearly allied to a very celebrated South American species, which, from visiting the houses of the inhabitants in great swarms, is termed the visiting ant. (Atta Cephalotes, Fabr.) The late Mr. Say, however, pointed out the differences between the two species in his manuscripts, which have been published in the Journal of the Natural History Society of Boston for 1836.

PEPSIS SEVERA.

Plate XLII. fig. 4.

ORDER: Hymenoptera. SECTION: Fossores. FAMILY: Pompilidæ, Leach.

GENUS. PEPSIS, Latr. Fabr. Sphex, Linn. Drury.

PEPSIS SEVERA. Atra, alis fulvo-diaphanis apice fuscis, pedibus fulvis femoribus nigris. (Expans. Alar. 3 unc. 3 lin.)

SYN. Sphex Severus, Drury, App. vol. 3.

HABITAT: Coast of Africa.

Head black. Tongue not observed. Palpi four. Eyes oblong, prominent and shining. Wings yellow-brown, diaphanous, the tips black. Thorax, abdomen, and thighs black. Tibiæ and tarsi yellow-brown.

PLATE XLIII.

MANTIS (HARPAX) OCELLARIA.

Plate XLIII. fig. 1.

ORDER: Orthoptera. SECTION: Cursoria. FAMILY: Mantidæ.

GENUS. MANTIS, Linn. (SUBGENUS: Harpax, Serville.)

MANTIS (HARPAX) OCELLARIA. Capite inermi, femoribus posticis lobo apicali, elytris viridibus ocello magno discoidali flavo nigro-cingulato. (Expans. Alar. 2 unc. 6 lin.)