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veins beginning by the stigma; fore-wings with brown dots which 

 are mostly at the tips, along the hind borders and especially towards 

 the base where they are darkest ; an oblique long brown spot in the 

 disk, and beyond a slightly oblique streak, and a spot above it ; two 

 brown spots near the tip : hind- wings shorter but not narrower than 

 the fore-wings, with brown spots at the tips and from thence along 

 two-thirds of the hind border, and with five brown bands which do 

 not extend to the hind border ; first band irregular and occasionally 

 interrupted ; second widened behind ; third partly or wholly inter- 

 rupted ; fourth and fifth interrupted : alula whitish with black tips. 

 Length of the wings 68 lines. 



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



Byron. 



14. MYRMELEON INCOMMODUS. 



Testaceus ; caput nigro vittatum ; palpi labiates apice nigri ; 

 thorax fusco trivittatus ; tarsi nigri ; alee limpidce, longa, 

 angustce, apicibus et marginibus posticis subfuscentibus,fasci- 

 isque quinque interruptis fuscis, anticce strigis tribus basalibus 

 nigricantibus^posticce guttis basi marginalibus fuscis. 



Testaceous, stout, clothed with whitish hairs : vertex very convex, 

 with a broad black stripe and a slight longitudinal furrow : palpi pale 

 testaceous ; labial palpi with black tips: antennae mutilated, testa- 

 ceous at the base : thorax with three slightly interrupted dark brown 

 stripes : prothorax a little narrower in front, its breadth more than 

 twice its length: abdomen mutilated, testaceous towards the base : 

 legs testaceous, stout ; tarsi black ; spurs much curved, as long as 

 the two first joints of the tarsi : wings limpid, long and narrow, 

 tinged with pale brown at the tips and about the hind border, es- 

 pecially in the fore-wings, where the brown hue extends along the 

 whole length and on half the breadth except a limpid space on each 

 side of the fork of the radius ; stigma indistinct; veins whitish, except 

 on the brown parts where many of the transverse veinlets are bordered 

 with white ; longitudinal veins mostly testaceous or pitchy towards 

 the base ; disks of many of the areolets in the brown parts more or 

 less hyaline ; subcostal areolets simple, with two or three forked veins 

 by the stigma : fore-wings with three blackish basal streaks, one 

 along the costa, the second along the cubitus and its fork, and the 

 third in dots along the hind border; five interrupted brown bands, 

 first and second each forming three spots, first extending to the hind 

 border, third forming three spots and broken towards the hind border 

 into four long slender oblique streaks ; fourth and fifih short, the 



