Excerpt from Studies in the Ptinidae, Cioidae and Sphindidae of AmericaThe descriptions are derived throughout from the female, the only male accessible to me being one of the four examples ofp/eurab'r. This male is very much smaller and narrower than the female, with the eyes better developed and separated by slightly more than twice their own width, the prothorax is more transverse and almost semicircular in outline from the base around the apex, near which it is perhaps more correctly broadly parabolic, the last ventral segment is simple, rounded ta apex and not quite as long as the two preceding combined, the an tennae do not differ essentially in structure from those of the female, but are rather more slender.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.