in the Collection of W. W. Saunders , Esq, 187 



BerotJia insolita. 

 Fcem. — Testacea, capite, thoiace pedibusque fusco-notatis, alis 

 vitreis sub-cinerascentibus, stigmate nigro-fuscescente, venis 

 alarum anticarum albidis fusco-punctatis, venulis transversis 

 nigro-nebulosis. 

 Female. — Testaceous : head, thorax and legs with minute brown 

 marks ; wings vitreous, slightly greyish ; stigma brownish, shaded 

 with black ; fore-wings with the costal space decreasing in breadth 

 from near the base to the stigma; veins whitish, with brown 

 points, rather numerous ; transverse veins clouded with black. 

 Length of the body 3 lines ; of the wings 7 lines. 

 Hindostan. 



Fam. MYRMELEONID^. 



Genus Myrmeleon, Linn, 



Myrmeleon tigroides. 



Mas. — Pallida luteus, capite thoraceque nigro-vittatis, capitis 

 fascia, antennis pedibusque nigris, thorace vittis tribus nigris, 

 abdomine apicem versus nigro, alis fusco-variis, anticis sub- 

 cinereis, posticis albidis. 



Male. — Structure of M. speciostts. Pale luteous : antennae and 

 legs black ; head and thorax with black hairs and with a black 

 stripe ; head with a black band between the eyes and with a 

 piceous mark on each side of the end of the stripe ; thorax with 

 whitish hairs hindward, with three black stripes j abdomen long, 

 black towards the tip ; basal half thickly clothed with pale hairs ; 

 apical half more thinly clothed with shorter black hairs ; apical 

 appendages short ; fore-wings slightly cinereous, with some brown 

 or blackish marks along the costa and along the interior border, 

 with two brown spots in the exterior part of the disk, and with an 

 irregular brown sub-apical band ; a brown slightly ramifying 

 discal stripe extending from the base to nearly half the length ; 

 two white elongated marks near the hind border, one interior, the 

 other basal; hind-wings whitish, with three broad irregular brown 

 bands, the first nearly joining a brown streak which proceeds from 

 the base, abbreviated hindward, and having opposite to it a sub- 

 fusiform marginal brown patch, the third including a sub-apical 

 whitish spot. 



Length of the body 26 lines; of the wings 51 lines. 



Hindostan. 



