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ceoiis rings ; thorax with a broad testaceous black marked stripe 

 on each side ; abdomen little more than half the length of the 

 wings, with irregular testaceous bands ; legs testaceous, short, 

 with a few black bands ; wings vitreous, obtuse, moderately 

 broad; stigma white; veins white, slightly ciliated; fore-wings 

 with the veins along the subcosta, and with a few in the disk, 

 clouded with brown ; hind-wings a little shorter and narrower 

 than the fore-wings, with one brown dot in the exterior hind part 

 of the disk. 



Length of the body 6 lines; of the wings 18 lines. 



Hindostan, 



Myrmeleon eccentros. 



Mas. — Niger, gracillimus, capitis lituris palpisque (estaceis, an- 

 tennis testaceis longis sub-filiformibus apice nigris, thorace 

 vittis quatuor albido-testaceis, prothorace longissimo, meso- 

 thoracis et raetathoracis lateribus rufescentibus, abdomine 

 lituris lateralibus ventreque testaceis, pedibus testaceis longis, 

 alis longis acutis vitreis nigricante variis apices versus fuscis, 

 costa apicali subrosea, alis posticis angustioribus longioribus 

 apices versus valde attenuatis. 



Male. — ^Black, very slender : head reticulated with testaceous 

 above, and with a testaceous mark towards the mouth ; eyes 

 aeneous; palpi testaceous, short; antennae testaceous, long, slen- 

 der, hardly thicker towards their tips, which are black ; thorax 

 with four slender whitish testaceous stripes ; prothorax very 

 long; mesothorax and metathorax reddish on each side; abdomen 

 much shorter than the wings, mostly testaceous beneath, and with 

 some elongated testaceous marks on each side above ; legs testa- 

 ceous, long, slender, with some black points; wings long, acute, 

 quite vitreous, very iridescent, with some black points along 

 the sub-costa and along the hind border, interruptedly brown 

 towards their tips, where the costa is somewhat rosy ; veins 

 black ; fore-wings moderately broad, with an irregular oblique 

 blackish band near the base, and with two blackisli patches ; the 

 1st on the costa, the 2nd on the middle of the hind border, a little 

 beyond the 1st; hind-wings narrower and longer than the fore- 

 wings, much attenuated towards the tips, with an oblique blackish 

 patch on the hind border. 



Length of the body 15 lines; of the wings 40 lines. 



Natal. 



This species, with M. s'lngularls and M. circuitcr, forms a group 



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