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APPENDIX IV

Family Evaniidæ.

Evania lævigata.

  • Evania lavigata, 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 Heterogina.

Family Formicidæ.

Subfamily Formicinæ.

Camponotus maculatus.

  • Formica maculata, Fabr. Spec. Ins. i, p. 491, n. 15 (1781).

A common African species.

Œcophylla 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 Ponerinæ.

Anomura molesta.

  • Anomura molesta, Gerst. Mon. Akad, Wiss. Berl. 1858, p. 262; Peters's Reise Mossamb., Zool. v. p. 562, pl. xii. fig. 2 (1862).

A species originally described from Mozambique.

Subsection Fossores.

Pelopæus spirifex.

  • Sphex spirifex, Linn. Syst. Nat. (ed. x.) i. p. 570, n. 8 (1758).

A widely distributed species in South Europe and Africa.