308 MYRMELEONITES. 



12. MYBMELEON PAEDUS. 



Flavus^ M. libelluloidis magnitudine ; palpi labiates rufescentes ; 

 thorax fusco varii. 



Palpares pardus, Ramb. Hist. Nat. Inn. Neur. 375, 15. 



Testaceous : head black about the base of the antennae which 

 are black : prothorax ill some cases with a black stripe : disk of the 

 thorax pitchy : abdomen pitchy ; hind bordersjof the segments yel- 

 low : legs tawny ; tarsi black : wings limpid, rounded at the tips ; 

 subcostal areolets simple, with some forked veins towards the stigma, 

 a row of quadrate spots above the costa : fore-wings with numerous 

 little brown dots at the base and along the hind border, and with a 

 few large brown spots in the disk ; spots at the tip forming an un- 

 dulating band : hind-wings as long and almost as broad as the fore- 

 wings, with a few large spots in the disk and more smaller ones 

 along the hind border. 



a, b. East Indies. Presented by Lady Amherst. 



c. East Indies. From the Hardwicke bequest. 



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

 e h. North India. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 



13. MYBMELEON SUBDUCENS. 



Testaceus ; palpi ferruginei, labiates apice picei ; antenna nigrce ; 



thorax fusco trivittatus ; pedes niyri, femoribus ferrugineis ; 



al< hyalince, sat longce, subanyustce, apice vix anyulata ; an- 



ticce fusco guttatce et disco maculata, posticce fusco maculatce 



et quinquefasciata. 



Testaceous, clothed with whitish hairs : head paler than the 

 thorax; vertex very convex, with a longitudinal furrow ; face paler- 

 palpi ferruginous ; third joint of the labial palpi pitchy: antennae 

 black: prothorax and mesothorax with three blackish brown stripes, 

 the lateral stripes dilated on the mesothorax, and each including a 

 testaceous stripe and dot ; some brown spots on the disks of the seg- 

 ments of the metatborax : abdomen mutilated, testaceous at the 

 base ; legs black ; femora dark ferruginous ; spurs as long as the two 

 first joints of the tarsi: wings hyaline, rather long and narrow, 

 rounded or very slightly angular at the tips, where the marginal 

 region is broad ; stigma yellowish, very indistinct; veins whitish, ex- 

 cept in the brown marks, in some of these the transverse veinlets are 

 bordered with white ; subcostal areolets simple, the forks of their 



