Family Evaniidse.
Evania leevigata.
Evania leevigata, Latr. Gen. Crust. Ins. iii. p. 251 (1807).
The species of this curious genus, though rare in England,
are common in many countries, and are believed to be parasitic
on cockroaches:
' Section ACULEATA.
Subsection H'ETEROGYNA."
Family Eormicidse.
Subfamily F o r m i c i n ^e .
Camponotus maculatus.
Formica maculata, Fabr. Spec. Ins. i. p. 491, n. 15 (1781).
A common African species.
CEcophylla virescens.
Formica virescens, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 392, n. 9 (1775).
These green ants are found throughout the tropics of the
Old World, and form their nests of leaves on trees.
Subfamily P o n e r i n m .
Anomura molesta.
■ Anomura molesta, Gerst. Mon. Akad. Wiss. Berl. 1858, p. 262 ; Peters’s
Reise Mossamb., Zool. v. p. 562, pi. xii. fig. 2 (1862).
A species originally described from Mozambique.
Subsection F ossores.
Pelopceus spirifex.
, Sphex spirifex, Linn. Syst. Nat. (ed. x.) i. p. 570, n. 8 (1758).
A widely distributed species in South Europe and Africa.
Subsection D ip lo p t e r a . \
Family Eumenidae.
Eumenes decipiens, sp. n.
Eumenes melanosoma, Smith, MS., nec. Sauss.
Long. corp. 15-17 millim. ; exp. al. 25-27 millim.
Head black above, the points of the angles wifhin the eyes
yellowish; antennae ferruginous, black above; face ferruginous,
very long, beak-like, sometimes yellow, only the
mandibles and a space at the base of the clypeus remaining
ferruginous. Prothorax red, with a large triangular black
spot nearly filling up the hinder angles on each side ; meso-
thorax black; tegulae large, black, bordered outside with
reddish; scutellum black, a short yellow dash running from
its extremity between the base of the wings ; postscutellum
black, with a yellow dot on each side ; metathorax black,
deeply sulcated in the middle, and forming two long triangles,
the points reddish, into which runs an oblique lateral yellow
line. Pectus black, red towards the sutures. Petiole and
abdomen black, shining, and much more finely punctured
than the thorax ; petiole rufous beneath and bordered behind
above with a pale yellow line. First segment of abdomen
bordered behind above with a yellow line, widely interrupted
in the middle. Legs rufous, front (and sometimes middle)
tibiae lined with yellowish ; tarsi clothed with greyish pubescence,
and the four hinder legs more or less blackish above.
Wings iridescent purplish subhyaline.
Agrees very closely with the description and figure of the
Javan E. melanosoma, Sauss., but appears to ‘ be distinct.
Specimens in the British Museum from Sierra Leone were
labelled E. melanosoma by the late F. Smith. The species
belongs to the group of E. cethiopica, Sauss.
Synagris dentata.
Synagris dentata, Sauss. Etudes Fam. Vesp. i. p. 80, pi. xiii. fig. 3
(1852)..
A common African species.