304 MYKMELEONITES. 



5. MYRMELEON CEPHALOTES. 



Cinereus ; capite thoraceque vitta media obsoleta fusca ; alis ovato- 

 lanceolatis, albo-hyalinis, punctis maculisque nigris. 



Myrmeleon cephalotes, Klug, Symb. Phys. dec. 4, 1, pi. 35, f. 1. 

 Palpares cephalotes, Ramb. Hist. Nat. Ins. Neur. 368, 3. 



The Egyptian species described by Klug may be distinct from 

 the Senegal M. cephalotes of Rambur, which more resembles the 

 insect here described. 



Yellow : head with a pitchy stripe which is dilated between the 

 eyes, and with another beneath the antennae : thorax with three 

 pitchy stripes ; mesothorax and metathorax with some pitchy streaks 

 on each side of the dorsal stripe : abdomen testaceous, pitchy to- 

 wards the tip and beneath : legs pitchy : fore-wings with three ob- 

 lique interrupted brown bands, and with numerous brown dots along 

 the costa, towards the base, at the tips and about the hind border : 

 hind- wings with four brown bands ; first, second and third connected 

 together in the middle, forked on the hind border of the wing; first 

 emitting a branch from its middle towards the base ; fourth apical, 

 containing two hyaline spots. 



a, b. Congo. Presented by Sir J. Richardson. 



6. MYRMELEON FURFURACEUS. 



Rufo-flavus, nigro vittatus ; caput magnum, vertice gibboso ; palpi 

 rufescentes, labiales articulo 30 nigro maculato ; abdomen fus- 

 cum, flavo bivittatum ; pedes rufescentes ; alee latce, maculis 

 guttisque rufescentibus. 



Palpares furfuraceus, Ramb. Hist. Nat. Ins. Neur. 373, 10. 



Like M. libellulo'ides in structure. Testaceous, with a pitchy 

 stripe : antennae black : abdomen pitchy : legs ferruginous : wings 

 spotted, much like those of M. pardus. 

 ? a, b. Congo. Presented by Sir John Richardson. 



