MYRMELEONITES. 303 



very near the tip ; stigma yellow ; veins whitish ; subcostal areolets 

 simple, with a few brown 'spots which increase successively in size 

 towards the stigma, or two of their veins forked towards the stigma : 

 hind-wings not narrower and hardly shorter than the fore-wings, 

 without spots except a few along the hind borders and at the tips, 

 but with four irregular slightly oblique brown bands which are not 

 connected with each other and do not reach the hind border; the 

 disks of their areolets nearly hyaline. Length of the body 27 lines : 

 of the wings 68 lines. 



a. ? Voyage of the Blonde. Presented by Capt. Lord Byron. 



4. MYBMELEON INCLEMENS. 



Testaceus, nigro vittatus ; palpi et pedes ferruginei ; abdomen pi- 

 ceum, testaceo varium; alee limpidce, sat latce, apice ro tun dates ; 

 anticce subfusco-nebulosce etfusco guttatce, nee non apud dis- 

 cum e maculis fuscis unistrigata et trifasciatce ; posticce fasciis 

 quatuor apud medium connexis purpureo-fuscis. 



Perhaps a variety of M. cephalotes. Testaceous, with a black 

 stripe from the vertex to the metathorax : head black about the base 

 of the antennae and with a blackish band beneath : palpi ferrugi- 

 nous : abdomen pitchy, partly dark testaceous : legs ferruginous : 

 wings limpid, rather broad, in structure like those of M. libetlu- 

 lo'ides, rounded at the tips : fore-wings slightly clouded here and 

 there with pale brown, dotted with brown towards the base and to- 

 wards the tips and along the hind border ; some larger brown spots 

 in the disk form three incomplete oblique bands ; there is also 

 a stripe of small brown spots in the disks ; stigma yellow ; veins 

 testaceous, here and there whitish ; subcostal areolets simple, with 

 brown dots towards the base, and with brown spots towards the 

 stigma ; a few of their veins forked towards the stigma: hind- wings 

 shorter but not narrower than the fore-wings, without spots except a 

 few along the hind border, but with four irregular oblique purplish 

 brown bands, which are connected with each other in the middle. 

 Length of the body 24 lines ; of the wings 68 lines. 



6, c. Port Natal. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 



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