MYRMELEONITES. 305 



7. MYRMELEON PATIENS. 



Piceus, robustus ; caput antice fulvum, vertice fulvo maculato ; an- 

 tennae, nigrce ; thorax fulvo varius ; abdomen maris supra 

 ferrugineum ; pedes ferruginei, tibiis apud medium tarsisque 

 nigris ,- alee subangustce. fusco quinquefasciatce, antica mar- 

 ginibus posticis et apicibus fusco -nebulosis guttisque obscuri- 

 oribus. 



Pitchy, stout, like M. libellulo'ides in structure. Front and face 

 tawny ; some tawny spots on the vertex : palpi and antenna? black : 

 prothorax narrower in front, broader than long, partly tawny along 

 the transverse middle ridge and along the fore border: segments of 

 the rnesothorax and of the metathorax with tawny spots and bor- 

 ders: abdomen of the male longer than that of the female, ferruginous 

 above except at the tip: appendages short: legs stout, ferruginous; 

 tibiae in the middle and tarsi black : wings limpid, rather narrow : 

 fore-wings sprinkled with numerous brown dots which are mostly 

 along the hind borders and at the tips, these parts are also clouded 

 with pale brown ; some large spots in the disk form five irregular 

 incomplete and slightly oblique bands, the disks of whose areolets 

 are more or less hyaline : stigina yellowish ; veins testaceous ; discal 

 areolets simple, with brown dots towards the base and with brown 

 spots towards the stigma ; one or two of their veins by the stigma 

 occasionally forked : hind-wings shorter, but not narrower than the 

 fore-wings, without spots except a few along the hind border, but 

 with five bands, of which all except the last are occasionally more 

 or less connected with each other in the middle. Length of the 

 body 22 24 lines ; of the wings 48 60 lines. 



a d. North India. From Mr. Stevens 1 collection. 

 e. North Bengal. From Miss Campbell's collection. 



8. MYRMELEON LIBELLULOIDES. 



Testaceus ; vitta verticis et prothoracis media fusca ; abdomine supra 

 trivittato ; femora rufa ; ales fusco maculata, maculis uni- 

 coloribus fusco venosis ; abdomen, maris alis brevius cercis Ion- 

 gissimis instructum, fcemina alis dimidiis vix lonyius cercis 

 minutissimis. 



Hemerobius libelluloides, Mus. Lud. Ubr. 401. 

 Myrmeleon libellulo'ides, Linn. Syst. Nat. ii. 913, 1. Drury, Ins. 

 ii. pi. 46, f. 1. Fabr. Sp. Ins. i. 398, I. Mant. Ins. i. 249, 1 : 



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