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10. MYEMELEON TIGRIS. 



M. libelluloidis magnitudine ; alee angustiores lanceolate, margine 

 postico fusco non punctato ; antice striato maculatce ; caput 

 flavum, macula inter antennas, punctoque verticisnigris ; pedes 

 flavi) tarsis nigris. 



Myrmeleon tigris, Dalm. Analect. Ent. 88, 99. 

 Palpares tigris, Ramb. Hist. Nat. Ins. Neur. 374, 12. 



Like M. libellulo'ides in structure ; wings a little more angular, 

 a, b. Sierra Leone. Presented by the Kev. D. F. Morgan. 



11. MYRMELEON INFIMUS. 



Testaceus ; vertex nigro bimaculatus ; palpi ferruginei, apice picei ; 

 thorax nigro triviltatus ; pedes nigri, tibiis supra testaceis ; 

 alee limpida, sat amplce, apice non angulatce, fusco maculates, 

 anticce vix bifasciatce, posticce quinquefasciatce. 



Testaceous, stout, clothed with whitish hairs : head darker than 

 the thorax ; vertex with a slight longitudinal furrow, and with a 

 black spot on each side : palpi ferruginous with pitchy tips : thorax 

 with three black stripes: prothorax much narrower in front, not 

 broader than long, with a transverse furrow in the middle ; abdomen 

 much shorter than the wings : legs black, stout ; tibiae testaceous 

 above ; spurs curved, longer than the first joint of the tarsi : wings 

 limpid, moderately long and broad, rounded and not angular at the 

 tips ; stigma yellowish ; veins pale testaceous except in the brown 

 parts, slightly ciliated; disks of the areolets more or less hya- 

 line in some of the brown marks, transverse veinlets bordered with 

 white in others ; subcostal areolets simple, their veins with one or 

 two forks by the stigma : fore-wings with dark brown marks, along 

 the fore border and on one-third of the length from the base, and 

 with larger and paler brown spots along the hind border and about 

 the tips ; two oblique brown bands extending from the subcosta to 

 the disk, the first about half the breadth of the wing, the second 

 longer but interrupted and forming three spots: hind-wings shorter 

 but not narrower than the fore-wings, with a few dark brown spots 

 along the subcosta, and with five dark brown bands; first shortened 

 behind, second, third and fourth slightly undulating, forked and 

 accompanied by some brown spots near the hind border ; fifth apical, 

 including a little spot above the tip : alulae small. Nearly allied to 

 M. pardus. Length of the body 23 lines ; of the wings 56 lines. 



a. North India. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 



