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behind a little dilatation furnished at its tip with a little tuft of 

 hairs forming a compact mass and fitted to a lateral cavity of the 

 hind part of the metathorax. 



1. MYKMELEON GIGAS. 



Luteus ; abdomine infuscato, vitta dorsi media nigra ; pedes obscure 

 castanei ; alee fusco maculates, maculisflaw venosis. 



Myrmeleon gigas, Dalm. Analect. Entom. 88, (annot.) 1. Burm. 



Handb. Enl. ii. 998, 25. 



Myrmeleon libelluloides, var. Drury, Int. iii. pi. 41. 

 Palpares gigas, Ramb. Hist. Nat. Ins. Neur. 366, 1. 



Testaceous, with a black dorsal stripe : prothorax with a pitchy 

 stripe on each side : abdomen dark testaceous : legs ferruginous : 

 wings limpid, with a very slight rosy tint which is most distinct 

 towards the truncated tips : fore-wings with a row of brown spots 

 along the costa, and with four interrupted oblique brown bands 

 which are composed of large spots : hind-wings as long as the fore- 

 wings, with five brown bands, first much interrupted; second dila- 

 ted; third and fourth connected in the middle and on the hind 

 border; fifth apical, interrupted, connected on the hind border with 

 the fourth. 



This and the following species are distinguished from all the 

 others by the great breadth of the marginal region towards the trun- 

 cated tips of the wings. 



a c. Sierra Leone. Presented by the Kev. D. F. Morgan. 



2. MYRMELEON CONTRARIUS. 



Testaceus ; vertex nigro maculatus ; palpi ferruginei ; antenna 

 nigrce ; thorax nigro trivittatus ; abdomen apicem versus 

 piceum ; pedes picei, tarsis nigris ; alee latce, subacuminatte^ 

 anticce fusco marginibus guttata et apud discum quadrifasci- 

 atce ; posticce fusco trifasciatce et unistrigata. 



Testaceous, clothed with pale hairs : vertex with a slight lon- 

 gitudinal furrow, and with two bands of black spots ; a black spot 

 behind the hind band: palpi ferruginous: antennae black; thorax 

 with three black stripes : abdomen darker than the thorax, pitchy 

 along half the length from the tip, much shorter than the wings : 

 legs pitchy, stout ; tarsi black ; spurs as long as the three first 



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