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I have described a larva which belongs very probably to this species, 



4. Palpares Burmeisteri^ Hag. 



Myrmecoleon gigas, Burm., ii., p. 998, No. 25. 



Palpares cephalotes, Rbr., p. 368, No. 3. 



Dalman, Anal., p. 88, describes M. gigas only after Drury's figure, as 

 Rambur has done also, but Dalman's description is very incomplete. 

 Apparently the fact was overlooked by Burmeister, and as he had not at 

 hand Drury's figure, he determined M. gigas after the insufficient descrip- 

 tion of Dalman. Burmeister's type from Winthem's collection, a female, 

 is before me. I believe it is P. cephalotes Ramb., and therefore Bur- 

 meister's species has to be named, until it is proved by evidence that 

 Rambur's P. cephalotes is a larger western form of King's species. As I 

 have no male before me, I am unable to decide this question. The type 

 is from Senegal. Length of body, 63 m.m.; exp. alar., 150 m.m. 



Nearly related to P. cephalotes Klug. , but larger, the wings broader, 

 with a stronger tinge of pale brown, head broader, 9 m.m. (King's species 

 7 m.m.) ; vertex much more convex, with a broader black band (only  

 dagger-shaped in King's spec.) ; black bands on thorax larger. Wings more 

 blunt on tip, more spotted near the veins and especially near the hind 

 margin ; hind wings in the apical half of the hind margin a regular row . 

 of rounded brown spots, distant from the margin, and a row of smaller 

 more irregular spots on the margin itself: this is not the case in Klug's 

 species ; of the large brown bands the penultimate is divided, and only 

 the lower part united with the ante-penultimate band. 



It would be useless to give more details till more material of both 

 sexes is at hand. 



(To be Continued.) 



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