314 MYRMELEONITES. 



26. MYRMELEON PARDALTNUS. 



Niger; prothoracis et segmentorum abdominalium margine flavo ; 

 alee anticce fulvce fusco conspersce, posticce flavce nigro trifas- 

 ciatce ; fascia media furcata ; abdomen marts alarum longi- 

 tudine cercis mediocribus clavatis. Long. 12 lin. 



Myrmecoleon pardalinus, Burm. Handb. Ent. ii. 997, 20. 

 Palpares pardaliDus, Ramb. Hist. Nat. Ins. Neur. 377, 18. 



Var. ? Niger, gracilis ; caput antice et subtus flavum ; antenna 

 clavatce ; thorax flaw bivittatus ; abdomen nigro testaceum ; 

 pedes graciles ; alee subluridce, latce, breves, apice rotundatce ; 

 anticce basi apice mar ginibusque fusco maculatce, apud medium 

 fusco intermpte bifasciatce ; posticce maculis nonnullis fasciis- 

 que duabusfuscis. 



The insect here described differs much from the preceding 

 species in structure, and in the form of the antenna?, and appears 

 more allied to M. clamcornis. Black, slender: head yellow beneath ; 

 vertex very convex, vvith a slight longitudinal furrow ; two yellow 

 rings at the base of the antennae ; face yellow : palpi black : an- 

 tennae clavate, slender, much shorter than the thorax : thorax with 

 two gilded yellow irregular and interrupted stripes r prothorax a 

 little narrower in front, much broader than long, with a transverse 

 furrow near the hind border and a transverse suture near the fore 

 border: abdomen dark testaceous, tinged with black, much shorter 

 than the wings : legs black, slender ; ungues bright red ; spurs fer- 

 ruginous, straight, as long as the two first joints of the tarsus: 

 wings slightly lurid, broad, short, rounded at the tips ; stigma white; 

 veins pale testaceous except in the brown parts, ciliated ; subcostal 

 areolets simple, a few of their veins forked towards the stigma ; 

 marginal region very broad towards the tips of the wings : fore- 

 wings with dark brown dots on one-third of the length from the base, 

 especially on the subcostal region where they are darkest and most 

 regular ; from thence along the borders and at the tips the spots and 

 dots are paler, and there are two paler oblique short and interrupted 

 bands on the disk ; hind-wings as long and as broad as the fore- 

 wings, with some brown dots along less than half the length of the 

 costa from the base, with three or four dots opposite to tkem near 

 the hind border, with a brown spot in the disk near the latter, with 

 some spots at the tip and from thence along half the length of the 

 hind border, and with two bands across the middle, the first very 

 undulating, the second notched in the middle on the inner side and 



