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dot on either side of the median lines ; posterior to or connected with 

 the dots a short line, thus forming either a comma-like or semicolon-like 

 marking. The lateral margins in great part marked with a dark line. 

 The pale space between the median lines varies in extent and the mark- 

 ings may tend to be in part obsolete, either actually or on account of the 

 immaturity of the specimen. 



In many European examples the median lines show little or no pale 

 space between them, and the other markings may be reduced to the dots 

 on the transverse sulcus and dark lateral margins; in others the median 

 lines may show considerable lateral expansion behind the sulcus. 



Two larvae of a species of Ant-lion, found by Evans at Amara on 

 desert-ground (ix.18), may belong to this species, which is evidently a 

 common one in the region, although the markings do not fully agree with 

 Meinert's figure of " M. pallidipennis " as rej^roduced by Sharp (^op. cit , 

 p. 4oG). 



Greagris irrorata Klug ? 



1, Amara, 27.vi.18 {Buxton). 



A small example (length of fore wing, 21^ mm.) has been referred 

 to this species with doubt. The venation is rather strongly variegated 

 with darker spaces, and the markings of the pronotura differ little in 

 general character from those of C. plumhea from the same region. 



JilijrmecaelurKS trlgrammus Pallas. 



4 5 $ , Kazvin, 27.vii, o.viii, 24, 29.viii.19, stony desert, 4000 ft. 

 {Buxton). 



Mijnnecaelurus atrox Walker. 



1 2 J Amara, 17.vi.18 {Evans) ; 1 $ , Kizil Eobat, left bank of 

 K. Dyala, 25.vi.19 {Pcile). Mr. Herbert Campion has at m^^ request 

 compared the latter with two specimens in the British Museum, both 

 carrying type labels, standing over tlie name Mi/riueleon atrox nud agrees 

 with the determination. 



Myrmecaelurus sp. ? 



1 5 > 1020, Mesopotamia, without further indication of locality 

 {Peile). 



Head and greater part of the body crushed. Pronotum with three lines, 

 the median interrupted at the sulcus, the lateral lines only reaching thereto, 

 meso- and metanotum with broad black median and lateral lines. Abdomen 

 apparently with black dorsal line and light interrupted lateral lines ; blackish 

 beneath. Legs yellow, femora lightly fuscescent externally, with tarsi black 

 at the apex. "Wings subacute, hyaline, venation mostly black with whitish 



