310 MYRMELEONITES. 



hind part of each consisting of a longitudinal streak in the disk : 

 hind-wings shorter but hardly narrower than the fore-wings, with 

 some dark brown dots along the cubitus, and along the hind border 

 towards its fork; five dark brown oblique interrupted bands, first 

 shortened in front, connected in the middle with the second, which 

 also extends to the hind border, third, fourth and fifth shortened 

 behind. Length of the wings 62 lines. 



a. West Africa. From Mr. Argent's collection. 



15. MYMELEON ZEBIUTUS. 



Flavus ; palpi nigro maculati ; thorax nigro trivittatus ; abdomen 

 rufo-flavum, apice obscurius ; femora extus obscuriora ; tarsi 

 nigri ; alee fusco maculatce et bifasciata, apicibus margini- 

 busque posticis subfuscis. 



Falpares zebratus, Ramb. Hist. Nat. Ins. Neur. 371, 7. 



Var. ? Testaceus, nigro trivittatus ,- caput nigro univittatum, facie 

 flava ; palpi ferruginei ; antennce nigrce ; pedes nigri, femo- 

 ribus basiferrugineis, tibiis testaceis apice nigris ; alee albidce, 

 longcB, apice rotundatcc, anticce fusco guttatce et maculates, 

 posticce fusco quadrisubfasciata. 



Testaceous, stout, covered with whitish hairs : head with a 

 black stripe ; face yellow : palpi ferruginous : antennae black, sub- 

 clavate, about half the length of the thorax : thorax and abdomen 

 with three black stripes : abdomen much shorter than the wings : 

 legs black, stout ; femora ferruginous at the base ; tibiae testaceous 

 with black tips : wings whitish, long, not pointed nor angular ; 

 stigma yellow ; veins mostly pale ; subcostal areolets simple, with 

 one or two forked veins by the stigma : fore-wings sprinkled with 

 numerous brown dots which are most prevalent along the hind 

 borders and at the tips ; some larger and darker brown spots along 

 the cubitus, and between the forks of the sector of the radius, and 

 near the tips : hind-wings as broad and almost as long as the fore- 

 wings, with brown dots along the subcosta, and with a row of brown 

 spots of various size along the hind border, from one-third of the 

 length to the tip ; some large dark brown spots in the disk forming 

 four irregular and imperfect brown bands, in which several of the 

 veins and of the disks of the areolets are more or less distinctly 

 white. Length of the body 21 lines ; of the wings 50 lines. 



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



