P. ESBEN-PETERSEN, AFRICAN MYRMELEONIDAE. I. 5 



Palpares radiatus Ramb. — Hist. Nat. Ins. Névr., p. 369, 

 Pl. 11, fig. 1, 1842. 



Rambur described the species upon a male specimen 

 from Senegal, still present in the SELYs'ian coUection in Bru- 

 xelles, where I bave seen it. It is a verv rare species, not 

 present in the coUection from Stockholm Museum; but I have 

 a pair, J"?, from Senegal in my own coUection, and as far 

 as I know, no descriptions or notes exist concerning the female. 

 In this sex the markings on the wings, especially on the 

 hindwings are much more prominent than in the male sex. 

 The two first joints of the antennae and the basal part of 

 third reddish yellow with short white bristles. Rs arises in 

 the forewing a little beyond the cubital fork, in the hindwing 





Fig. 2 a. 



Palpares radiatus, a o^, b $. 

 Coll. Esben-Peteesen. 



a little before, and in both pairs of wings it forks 3 — 4 cel- 

 lules from its origin. The angle betvveen Cu^ and Cu2 in 

 the forewing is not so acute as in kalahariensis . The »oblique 

 veinj> is placed nearer to the cubital fork than to the origin 

 of the first cubital sector. A closely related species is P. 

 incommodus Walker (Neur. Ins. Brit. Mus., p. 309, 1853), 

 described from a specimen (abdomen mutilated) from West 

 Africa. I have not seen the type-specimen, but N Banks 

 has seen it (Brit. Mus.), and he states that P. ruhescens Stitz 

 (Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, p. 111, fig. 7, 1912), P. costatus 

 Navas (Ann. Soc. Brux., p. 13, fig. 6, 1912) and P. rieli 

 Na VAS (Insecta, Rennes, p. 69, fig. 1, 1912) are the same 

 species, and he is undoubtedly right. But if so, it seems to 

 me that there is a great probability, that incommodus in that 



